{"id":780481,"date":"2026-07-23T20:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780481\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:13:10","slug":"ygs-verzuz-battle-with-the-game-still-on-after-run-in-with-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780481\/","title":{"rendered":"YG’s VERZUZ Battle With The Game Still On After Run-In With Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n VERZUZ Battle Still On Despite Run-In With Cops<\/p>\n

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\n July 23, 2026
\n 11:39 AM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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YG<\/a>‘s run-in with law enforcement isn’t pumping the brakes on his highly anticipated VERZUZ battle with The Game<\/a> … TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n

Sources close to VERZUZ, a rap battle series, tell TMZ … Thursday night’s event will continue as planned.<\/p>\n

YG is set to face fellow Compton rapper The Game in their “Compton Forever” VERZUZ battle, which is scheduled to kick off at 6:30 PM PT.<\/p>\n

The confirmation comes after YG was detained during a SWAT response<\/a> at a property connected to him in Burbank early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

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As TMZ first reported … law enforcement sources told us the SWAT team responded around 7 AM while authorities executed a search warrant tied to the investigation into the 2021 murder<\/a> of Drakeo the Ruler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We’re told the property is connected to YG, who had a well-documented beef with Drakeo. YG has denied any involvement in Drakeo’s death.<\/p>\n

A CHP official confirmed to TMZ … YG was detained during the execution of the search warrant … but he was not arrested and was later released.<\/p>\n

The “Compton Forever<\/a>” event is the latest installment of VERZUZ, the live music series created by Swizz Beatz and Timbaland that pits artists against each other as they perform their biggest hits.<\/p>\n

It’ll be interesting to see if YG or The Game references this latest brush with police during their battle.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YG VERZUZ Battle Still On Despite Run-In With Cops Published July 23, 2026 11:39 AM PDT YG‘s run-in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[4,88,483,216,3,484],"class_list":["post-780481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-breaking-news","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-music","tag-news","tag-tmz-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}