Ice Spice is speaking out about a viral video showing her in an altercation at McDonald’s.
The 26-year-old “Deli” rapper took to social media on Friday (April 17) to poke fun at the incident, which took place earlier in the week at the fast food chain in Hollywood, California.
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“This wouldn’t happen at Wendy’s,” Ice captioned a repost of the security footage on X.
The Bronx native also appeared to tease an unreleased song, which can be heard playing over the clip.
Spice was reportedly in Los Angeles to shoot a commercial for Wendy’s, according to TMZ. The artist also lists “@wendys princes” in the bio section of her X and Instagram accounts.
In 2023, the Grammy-nominated rapper collaborated with Dunkin’ and appeared alongside Ben Affleck in an advertisement for the coffee and donut chain.
On Wednesday (April 15), Ice Spice was involved in an altercation at a McDonald’s, with footage later surfacing online. She was seated with a friend when another woman approached and tried to strike up a conversation. After Ice declined, tensions escalated and the woman reportedly slapped her, sparking a brief scuffle that spilled across nearby tables and briefly outside before bystanders stepped in to separate them.
Spice’s attorney, Bradford Cohen, said in a statement to Billboard that they will be exploring all avenues to “hold the perpetrators responsible for their actions.”
“The unprovoked attack on my client has been reported to the LAPD and we will be pursuing any and all criminal and civil avenues to hold the perpetrators responsible for their actions,” Cohen said. “We are also exploring holding the location responsible for their apparent lack of appropriate security.”
The attorney continued, “Not to mention that the individuals involved obviously did not realize that we would get the video from inside the McDonald’s where the unprovoked attack occurred. They then turned their cameras on after the initial attack as if to set our client up, and as they say on the video to ‘go viral.’ The only thing that will be going viral for them is their mugshots.”
Check out Ice Spice’s post on X here.
Lil Wayne is speaking out about being regularly left out of major music events.
On Saturday (April 18), the 43-year-old rap legend took to social media to express frustration about being “uninvited & uninvolved” in annual events like the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival and the Grammy Awards.
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“It’s truly a humbling experience when events like Coachella & the Grammys come around & like clockwork,I’m uninvited & uninvolved,” Weezy wrote on X. “I appreciate my position or space I hold in ya heart & mind if so bc you’re the humbling experience that’s timeless & 4dat I thk u. Iaintshitwithoutu.”
Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst jumped into the comments to offer his support. “Let’s start our own experience gathering and our own acknowledgment event to welcome all of the uninvited – i’ve got a couple ideas i’ve been working on for quite some while now – happy to elaborate if ever interested – sending good vibes,” Durst wrote.
Wayne’s post comes about a year after the Tha Carter VI rapper was passed over to headline the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show in his hometown of New Orleans. Kendrick Lamar was ultimately selected to perform at the Caesars Superdome following the momentum of his Billboard Hot 100-topping hit “Not Like Us.”
In September 2024, Lil Tunechi opened up about how painful it was to miss out on the Super Bowl halftime performance in his own city.
“That hurt. It hurt a lot. You know what I’m talking about. It hurt a whole lot,” the rapper said at the time. “I blame myself for not being mentally prepared for a letdown. And for automatically mentally putting myself in that position like somebody told me that was my position. So I blame myself for that. But I thought that was nothing better than that spot and that stage and that platform in my city, so it hurt. It hurt a whole lot.”
Months later, he told a crowd at Lil WeezyAna Fest in New Orleans, “I told myself I wanted to be on that stage in front of my mom, and I worked my ass off for that position. It was ripped away from me, but this moment right here… they can’t take this away from me.”
While Lil Wayne has never performed a solo set at Coachella, he did make a surprise appearance during G-Eazy’s set at the Indio, California, festival in 2016.
As for the Grammys, Weezy has received 28 nominations over the course of his career and has won five awards, including best rap album for Tha Carter III at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in 2009. That same year, he made his Grammy stage debut performing “Swagga Like Us” alongside M.I.A., T.I., Jay-Z, and Kanye West (now Ye).
See Lil Wayne’s post on X below.
Madonna’s new song “I Feel So Free” has officially arrived on streaming services.
After debuting Friday (April 17) on iHeartRadio’s Pride station, the pulsating Confessions II track was released at midnight following the Queen of Pop’s surprise appearance during Sabrina Carpenter’s Coachella headlining set later that night.
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In addition to dropping “I Feel So Free” on streaming services, Madonna also shared a trippy visualizer on YouTube.
“Thanks for coming,” Madonna sing-speaks in the opening lines of the song. “Sometimes I like to just hide in the shadows/ Create a new persona/ A different identity/ I can be whoever I want to be/ Create a new persona/ Honestly I wish/ I could be like other people and just not care/ But out here on the dance floor, I feel so free.”
“I Feel So Free” is a propulsive dance track that calls back to the beat of Lil Louis’ 1989 house classic “French Kiss.” It also fits into the world of Confessions on a Dance Floor, echoing the sound of “Future Lovers” from Madonna’s 2005 electro-pop dance era.
The upcoming Confessions II is the eagerly awaited sequel to Confessions on a Dance Floor, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in December 2005. The project reunites Madonna with that album’s producer, Stuart Price, who also served as music director on her 2023–2024 Celebration Tour.
“I Feel So Free” arrives ahead of the album’s lead single, which has yet to be announced, label representatives previously told Billboard. A Confessions II countdown on Spotify reveals the album will feature 16 tracks.
Confessions II will be released on July 3 and serves as Madonna’s first album since 2019’s Madame X. It also marks her first release since re-signing with Warner Records in September 2025.
After strong winds forced the cancellation of his Coachella 2026 weekend one performance last Friday (April 17) Anyma returned for weekend two on a much stiller night that allowed for the world debut of his new show, ÆDEN.
Starting a bit late at approximately 12:15 a.m. on Friday night/Saturday morning, the producer walked onstage dressed in all white, with the massive screen running the entire length of the festival’s mainstage switching on behind him. While this screen would host a varied cast of characters during the performance, it was first populated by dozens of digitally rendered columns that crumbled to the ground before rising again.
Also rising was Anyma himself, with the platform on which he stood elevating and lowering at various points of the show, a cool effect that in moments made the producer appear to be floating, to positioned in the center of a swirl of fire and at the nexus of many other onscreen special effects.
The show soon introduced a character resembling Michelangelo’s David, who busted down the columns while robot-like elements showed from under his stone artifice. The performance would go on to incorporate other such characters from the worlds of ancient art and mythology, including a Medusa-like creature, the snakes emanating from her head hissing in time with the beat, a pair of spinning characters whose muscular bodies appeared to be rendered from tree roots, a female demon and eventually, an angel — but more on that later.
The interplay of the ancient and modern art is a core concept of the Anyma universe, and one that those who saw his End of Genesys residency at Sphere Las Vegas in late 2024 and early 2025 will well recognize. Along with all the new imagery, ÆDEN reintroduced visuals familiar to those who saw the Sphere show, with the bugging eyeballs from the “Voices In My Head” segment from Sphere (and the song’s corresponding video) showing up during this same song at Coachella, but with the eyes now rendered in black and eventually appearing to drip black blood.
As it was at Sphere, Ellie Goulding also made an appearance, with the vocalist’s image cast on the screen during her 2025 Anyma collab “Hypnotized.” But while at Sphere her face essentially shape-shifted, at Coachella she was made to look like a marble statue, in keeping with the show’s ancient art themes.
Typically at Coachella, the special guests show up for weekend one and then pack up and go home, but — perhaps because they didn’t get the chance to perform last weekend due to the cancellation — Anyma brought out a host of guests including Muse‘s Matt Bellamy and Swae Lee. The biggest guest was also the one most people would have guessed was coming, LISA. Anyma and the K-Pop superstar released their collaborative single “Bad Angel” on April 8, and this show at Coachella saw them performing it publicly together for the first time.
LISA came onstage in a shimmery, diaphanous dress while imagery of her as the titular angel appeared on the screen behind her. As she walked down the stage’s runway, she declared that she’s “pretty pretty bad” for an angel, with those watching the performance via the livestream on YouTube at this point seeing a towering LISA hologram in the sky above her. For those of us in the crowd no such hologram materialized, but to be in such close proximity to the singer appeared to be thrilling enough for the people in the crowd whose hands were genuinely shaking as she walked by.
The final moments of the show featured an appearance by Joji, who came out to sing “Beautiful,” his Anyma collaboration released earlier this month. As Joji sang to the crowd out on the catwalk, a version of him rendered in stone appeared on the screen, once again juxtaposing new and old, human and digital, with “Beautiful” serving as the show’s closer.
All in, ÆDEN functioned as an expansion of the significant world-building Anyma has already accomplished, bringing in concepts of ancient art and culture and colliding them with the cutting-edge technology required to create a show of this size and scope. Presenting this show on the Coachella mainstage is certainly a win for Anyma, with having Anyma on the mainstage of one of the world’s biggest music festivals also marking a win for dance music itself.
6LACK is back with new music. The Atlanta singer-rapper released “Sunday Again” featuring 2 Chainz on Friday, alongside a companion music video directed by Levi Turner, as the latest preview of his forthcoming album Love Is the New Gangsta, due May 22 via LVRN/Interscope Records.
The track features additional vocal contributions from Serayah, Jordan Ward and Dos Dias, among others. The video — which also features cameos from artists Mereba, umi, Quin and slimwav — sees 6LACK and 2 Chainz surrounded by friends and family in what the artist describes as a moment of community and serenity, reflecting the album’s central theme of universal love.
“Sunday Again” follows 6LACK’s debut single from the project, “Bird Flu,” which drew widespread critical acclaim upon release. Together, the two tracks offer an early look at what promises to be a significant artistic statement. Rooted in self-exploration, healing and radical honesty, Love Is the New Gangsta finds the Zone 6 native examining love, identity and growth across what his label is billing as his most ambitious work to date. The album is available for pre-order now, with limited edition fan bundles — including vinyl, CDs and apparel — also on sale.
The new album follows 6LACK’s 2023 effort Since I Have a Lover, which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Progressive R&B Album and received widespread critical praise from outlets including NPR, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and Complex. That record featured collaborations with Don Toliver, Wale, Ty Dolla $ign and India Shawn.
Born and raised in Atlanta, 6LACK — pronounced “Black” — broke through with his 2016 debut Free 6LACK, which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Urban Contemporary Album. His 2018 follow-up East Atlanta Love Letter peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and hit No. 1 on the Top R&B Albums chart. His highest-charting moment to date remains his 2021 collaboration with Lil Tjay, “Calling My Phone,” which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and simultaneously topped both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts. The five-time Grammy-nominated artist has amassed over 8 billion global streams across his catalog.
Love Is the New Gangsta is out May 22.
Ice Spice was enjoying a late-night McDonald’s snack early Wednesday but ended up getting into another kind of beef.
The Bronx native was involved in a physical confrontation with another woman at the Hollywood fast-food restaurant, and footage of the viral altercation was posted by TMZ on Friday (April 17).
Unaccompanied by security, footage shows Ice Spice and a friend chatting in a McDonald’s booth over a meal when they were approached by another patron. The “Deli” rapper rejected the female fan’s advances for a conversation, which escalated the situation.
“Where you from?” the fan repeatedly asked. To which Ice hilariously responded: “I’m from McDonald’s.”
The woman became angry and slapped Ice Spice and a melee ensued, as Ice jumped across tables while shouting at the perpetrator. A separate group of individuals got involved, but the situation didn’t defuse and continued outside.
Ice and another male individual got into a separate heated argument. “Let me fight the bi—,” Ice insisted. “Let me fight her. On your momma, let me fight her. Let me fight the bi—. Why would you want to fight me? Are you a bi—? You’re 120 pounds, let’s get at it then! Y’all think because a bi— famous… F— you mean, what happened? Where she at?”
Footage shows the altercation getting physical once again with the male and female perpetrators against Ice Spice, who ended up on the ground. “He pushed her,” Ice’s friend claimed.
Ice Spice’s attorney, Bradford Cohen, relayed in a statement to Billboard on Friday that they will be exploring all avenues to “hold the perpetrators responsible for their actions.”
“The unprovoked attack on my client has been reported to the LAPD and we will be pursuing any and all criminal and civil avenues to hold the perpetrators responsible for their actions,” Cohen said. “We are also exploring holding the location responsible for their apparent lack of appropriate security.”
The powerhouse attorney continued: “Not to mention that the individuals involved obviously did not realize that we would get the video from inside the McDonald’s where the unprovoked attack occurred. They then turned their cameras on after the initial attack as if to set our client up, and as they say on the video to ‘go viral.’ The only thing that will be going viral for them is their mugshots.”
The female perpetrator, who identified herself as Vayah, spoke to TMZ following the altercation to give her side of the story. “Ice Spice was just being rude. She was like, ‘Why are you over here? You could leave,’” she said. “Then she calls me a bi—. So after she calls me a bi—, I hit her.”
Vayah claimed that Ice Spice picked up her friend’s phone and threw it, which resulted in a cracked screen. “She lost a fan, I can’t listen the same to her anymore,” she said.
On the music side, Ice hasn’t released any new singles in 2026. Back in December, she teamed up with TOKISCHA for “Thootie.”
Watch footage of the altercation below.
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All Lewis Capaldi wanted to do was have a little, intimate hang with some of his fans in New York’s Penn Station on Thursday afternoon (April 16) before he headlined at Madison Square Garden last night. But, apparently, the NYPD had different ideas.
The singer posted about the incident on X afterward, writing, “NYPD TRULY MET THEIR MATCH IN THE FORM OF A CROWD OF MILD MANNERED ‘MIDDLE OF THE ROAD’ POP MUSIC FANS #WeRunNY,” alongside a video of his fans packing Penn Station and singing his 2020 hit “Before You Go,” to piano accompaniment before police begin walking through the scrum to break it up.
In another video from the surprise gig in front of a flower shop, Capaldi performs a moving rendition of his 2023 hit “How I’m Feeling Now.” During the event, a member of Capaldi’s team handed flowers out to the gathered fans with notes attached, which it appeared a number took with them when they walked upstairs to attend the MSG show.
Capaldi — who posted his own footage of the mildly chaotic subterranean show on TikTok — also performed his yearning new single, “Stay Love,” his first release since his 2025 EP Survive. The song’s release comes after Capaldi confirmed earlier this week that the “mystery” free vinyl in a plain white sleeve with pitched-down vocals and no identifying artist information that showed up in U.K. and U.S. stores ahead of this weekend’s Record Store Day was indeed his new single.
Many fans had guessed that it might be Capaldi based on the vocal inflection and romantic lyrics, according to NME. The emotional track includes the swoony lines: “So when the rights are going wrong/ And I’m barely holding on/ Baby hear me when I say/ Oh won’t you stay love/ When everybody’s leaving/ Come on, stay love/ To get me through the evening.“
According to a release from Capaldi’s label, the three-song pop-up in front of Damselfly Flowers for “unwitting commuters” included the handing out of single-stem blooms with notes reading “‘Stay Love’” Lewis Capaldi” on them to those gathered around, with the crowd swelling to over 5,000 people, “turning the New York City landmark into a cavernous music hall.”
Produced by The Monsters & Strangerz and Michael Pollack, “Stay Love” appears on the deluxe edition of the Survive EP.
Capaldi will headline MGM Music Hall in Boston on Saturday night (April 18).
Watch the “Stay Love” visualizer below.
Demi Lovato finds a confident stride with “Low Rise Jeans,” the latest release in the pop veteran’s dance era.
The fresh cut dropped at midnight, not long after she road-tested it early in the set of her It’s Not That Deep Tour opener Monday (April 13) at Orlando’s Kia Center.
“Low Rise Jeans” has the type of production that screams for commercial radio airplay. Produced and co-written with Zhone, it’s pop with a punch, a retro twist and a hip-hop sensibility.
On it she sings: “I’m in my low-rise jeans/ You don’t need your imagination/ In my see-through tee/ I can feel your anticipation.”
On that Florida date, the first stop on her 18-date, arena-headlining tour of North America, Lovato brought out besties Selena Gomez and guest performer Joe Jonas, and played her latest release over the arena’s speakers at night’s end.
Lovato has marked this year out another major career outing, both on the road, the airwaves, and in film. She stars opposite Golden Globe winner Rose Byrne in the drama Tow, which hit select U.S. theaters on March 20, and she’s also executive producing Camp Rock 3, which is expected to debut on Disney+ this summer.
The It’s Not That Deep Tour is in support of Lovato’s 2025 album of the same name. Following its release last October, the collection bowed at No. 9 on the Billboard 200, for her ninth top 10 appearance on the all-genres albums chart.
The new jam will be housed on her deluxe album release, It’s Not That Deep (Unless You Want It To Be), due out next Friday, April 24. Released via DLG Recordings/Island/Republic Records, It’s Not That Deep earned Lovato her first No. 1 album on Billboard’s Top Dance Albums chart, opening at the summit.
The tour continues Saturday, April 18 in Philadelphia, PA.
Stream “Low Rise Jeans” below.
Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday’s most essential releases each week — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
Last week, we featured Lady Gaga & Doechii, The Strokes and KATSEYE.
This week, Olivia Rodrigo swerves wtih her third album’s misleadingly titled first single, sombr straps on the vocoder, Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize make their partnership streaming-official — plus much more. Check out all of this week’s picks below.
Olivia Rodrigo, “Drop Dead”
Few artists can command as much attention and interest with the start of a new album era as Olivia Rodrigo, whose sense of quality control and purposefulness with her music is almost without peer among the new pop star class of this decade. So all eyes and ears will certainly be on “Drop Dead” this week, as the first taste of June’s upcoming You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love LP. And despite having a title that would seem to place it in line with the furious heartbreak of prior lead singles “Drivers License” and “Vampire,” “Drop Dead” quickly turns out to be a misdirect: The song is a lush and swoony but still propulsive love song about a first-night’s infatuation (as in “Kiss me and I might drop dead”), with The Cure’s namechecked (and previously Rodrigo-covered) “Just Like Heaven” providing its guiding light. The new sound and vibe should get fans even more pumped for OR3, and seems all but certain to be one of the year’s biggest and most acclaimed pop-rock songs.
sombr, “Potential”
sombr debuted his new single at his then-untitled Weekend One Coachella performance, flanked with a number of ballerinas (who he referred to as the “sombrinas”), teasing that the song would be out Apr. 17. Well, here we are, and here it is: “Potential” features more of the discofied sound sombr has been exploring since last year’s hit “12 to 12,” with more heartbroken lyrics, a callback to his 2025 mega-success (“It was a difficult breakup/ But I wrote some songs that got me famous”) and some Random Access Memories Daft Punk-style vocoder warbling. Another winner, basically. (And yes, that is The Summer I Turned Pretty‘s Gavin Casegano starring alongside sombr and U.K. influencer Madeline Argy in the video; guy just can’t keep himself away from love triangle situations.)
Nine Inch Noize, Nine Inch Noize
If you couldn’t make it out to the desert to catch Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize‘s collaborative set as Nine Inch Noize at Coachella last weekend, no worries — you’ve got one more chance to catch them this Saturday. And failing that, we’ve also now got Nine Inch Noize, the self-titled team-up album that essentially recreates the set they delivered to the rabid Sahara Tent crowd on Saturday, with audible fan noise to help convey the live excitement. The tracklist includes new spins on NIN classics like “Closer” and “Copy of A,” as well as on fan favorites like “She’s Gone Away” and the Soft Cell cover “Memorabilia,” and closes with “As Alive as You Need Me to Be” from TRON: Ares, the teamup’s 2025 rock airplay hit. “Listen LOUD,” NIN’s Trent Reznor advises in a press release, and rightly so.
Lana Del Rey, “First Light”
A Lana Del Rey James Bond theme?? Well…. sort of. “First Light” is LDR’s theme to the new Bond video game of the same name, with no accompanying film yet in the offing. Still, don’t expect her to pull up short on the epicness as a result: “First Light” goes impossibly hard with the strings, trumpets and overall drama, as Del Rey really sinks her teeth into the part — even having fun with the video game soundtrack part of it, with lyrics like “Dying just to know whether you’ll play your life like a game,” and a constant refrain of her asking “Will you play?” We’re kind of intrigued, now.
Tyla feat. Zara Larsson, “She Did It Again”
“Close enough, welcome back ‘Can’t Remember to Forget You’” reads the top comment on the r/Popheads thread for the new Tyla and Zara Larsson collab “She Did It Again.” It makes sense as a comp to the Shakira and Rihanna near-classic, both with the geographically disparate teamup of South African star Tyla with Swedish phenom Zara Larsson, and the song’s fun and flirty music video. Given the two hitmakers’ penchant for going viral, this one is almost certain to catch fire at some point, and the song’s chewy chorus and frisky chemistry make it more than just an algorithmic hit.
Rosalía, LUX (Complete Works)
Want more of Rosalía‘s LUX? Of course you do: As sumptuous and satisfying as Rosalía’s 2025 opus was — our staff’s No. 2-rated album for the entire year — there’s always room for more of her towering vocals and soul-stirring arrangements in our lives. This week’s Complete Works digital reissue of the album adds three new songs previously only available on the album’s physical edition, as well as a “Francotidora” version of original album highlight “Dios es un Stalker.” The most notable of the bunch is likely the soaring “Focu ‘Ranni,” with its Passion Pit-like garbled-vocal refrain and its gorgeous climax, sung in Sicilian.