Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Keep Your Head to the Sky” Round 3: The Isley Brothers’ “Hello It’s Me” vs. The Isley Brothers kick it up a notch and take it back to their first Motown single with the sweetly radiant “This Old Heart of Mine.” Would be an automatic W against most competition, but Earth, Wind & Fire aren’t backing down early, countering with the forever floor-filler “Let’s Groove,” the biggest and best of the group’s ’80s hits. Round 2: The Isley Brothers’ “This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak For You)” vs. Hard not to be as miffed as Harvey was at the early fade out on that one. But it can’t compete with the live version of signature Earth, Wind & Fire cut “That’s the Way of the World,” which just minutes earlier both Harvey and Ernie Isley had been raving about being a personal favorite of theirs. The Isleys start off with their hit cover of Stephen Stills’ solo smash, a rendition still soaring five decades later. Earth, Wind & Fire’s “That’s the Way of the World” (Live) Round 1: The Isley Brothers’ “Love the One You’re With” vs. See Billboard‘s round-by-round scorecard for the epic showdown below - a supersized 25-round match, in accordance with the bands’ stunningly expansive catalogues - with our final winner tallied up and declared at the bottom. D Nice span ’80s classics from Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan, before Harvey introduced himself, offered a prayer for “down bad” Verzuz veteran DMX, and raved about the formative importance of the two groups in his own life: “These groups made me.
Hosted (with a somewhat heavy touch) by star comedian Steve Harvey, and with music courtesy of veteran DJ and quarantine-era sensation D-Nice, the event was clearly going to be a special one even before the two groups began spinning.
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