The cold war between Gucci Mane and Jeezy reached an at-times-uneasy truce on Thursday night (Nov. 19), as the Atlanta hip-hop legends kicked off Season 2 of Verzuz with a hits-packed battle that lived up to the sky-high hype.

With a staggering 1.8 million viewers — a new Verzuz record — tuning in through Instagram at the battle’s peak (and many more watching through Apple Music), the rappers attempted to pause a long-standing feud that dates back to the mid-2000s,