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.
Thursday night (April 16), Paul McCartney gave a magical, mystery tour through his new solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, for 30 fans.
Hosted at producer Andrew Watt’s newly christened Diamond Dust studio in Sherman Oaks, McCartney and Watt described the making of the album track by track before playing each song. In between, an animated McCartney regaled the audience with stories about his fellow Beatles, before playing a handful of deeply nostalgic songs.
Overall, the album, which comes out May 29 on Capitol Records, is delightfully Beatle-esque in parts in terms of melodies, instrumentation, bold tempo and stylistic changes and, of course, McCartney’s vocals, which sound by turns sturdy and robust and then delicate and vulnerable. Watt stressed that for the most part (other than the strings and orchestration), McCartney played all the instruments on the album, including drums…though he got a very able assist from Ringo Starr on one track: “I said [to Watt], ‘Are you going to get Chad [Smith]?’ And he said, ‘Why don’t you have a go?’ And I did!”
“No one else can do that,” Watt said of McCartney’s multi-instrument prowess. A modest McCartney replied, “A few people can do it,” before taking a beat and cutely tilting his head and adding, “but not many.”
The superfans were shuttled from the Capitol Records Tower to the studio, and while McCartney’s presence hadn’t been promised, when the fans (and three journalists) entered the small room and saw two burgundy velvet chairs with three acoustic guitars lined up behind them, flanked by two large speaker stacks, anticipation rose that McCartney would definitely make an appearance.
Shortly before 7 p.m. PT., Watt, McCartney and McCartney’s wife, Nancy Shevell, entered the room, with McCartney miming playing the guitar. “We’re going to play the album and we’re going to explain how we made it,” McCartney said, adding, “Welcome my missus, Nancy.”
And that’s exactly what happened. For close to 90 minutes, a delightfully loquacious McCartney dived into the making of the album, starting with how he met the 35-year old Grammy-Award winning Watt, who has become the go-to producer for legendary artists, including the Rolling Stones, Elton John and the late Ozzy Osbourne, after producing such acts as Justin Bieber, Post Malone and Miley Cyrus.
McCartney met Watt for a “cup of tea,” but they immediately began noodling around and trading licks and “I’m like, ‘okay, we’re going to work together,” McCartney said. “Sometimes, I like to find a crazy chord and [find] maybe that will inspire me,” he said, grabbing an acoustic guitar from behind him to replicate the chord. The small audience burst into applause, leading McCartney to joke, “it wasn’t that good.” From there, they came up with the opening track and began working on the album, which was recorded in Los Angeles and England.
“When I first met Andrew, I thought, ‘He’s a bit pushy,’” McCartney said. “And he is, but that’s what you want in a producer. You don’t want a shrinking violet.”
Below are the songs on the album, McCartney’s first solo set since 2020, with some of his comments on each. As every tune played, McCartney mouthed almost every word or would sometimes play air drums, and Watt, who smartly ceded the floor to McCartney, would often play air guitar.
Zayn Malik isn’t letting his old One Direction bandmates Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan have all the fun. The British pop singer is back with his fifth studio album, Konnakol (via Mercury Records/Island Records U.K.), a collection that houses the previously-released recording “Sideways” and lead single “Die For Me.”
Konnakol is Zayn’s first since 2024’s Room Under the Stairs, which peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard 200, and No. 3 on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart.
Zayn co-produced the new LP with Malay (Frank Ocean, Lorde), extending a working relationship that dates back to his debut solo album Mind of Mine (2016) and its followup Icarus Falls (2018).
The former 1D star will go full bore with his promotional work in support of the new record. He’ll make his first late-night TV interview, with a performance, for Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show on April 21.
Next up, an April 23 appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, and on May 12, he kicks off his largest solo tour to date, with a show at AO Arena in Manchester, England.
Produced by Live Nation, the KONNAKOL Tour will visit major cities across the world including London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo, and is scheduled to close with a concert Nov. 20 at Kaseya Center in Miami, FL. It’s billed as his first-ever solo arena trek.
He should be match fit. Zayn complete his first-ever Las Vegas residency earlier this year, where he debuted and teased unreleased material from Konnakol.
The new album’s name is a reference to the art of performing percussion syllables vocally, a style found in South Indian Carnatic music. It’s “the act of creating percussive sounds with one’s voice,” he explains in a statement, “but what it means to me lies somewhere much deeper. It is a sound that holds the reverberation of a time before words existed.”
He added, “I have always drawn on my heritage for inspiration since I first started making my own music — this album is a development of that understanding, knowing more now than ever, who I am, where I come from and where I intend to go.”
Zayn made history as a member of 1D, and was the first to split from the band in pursuit of a solo career. He made the best possible start with his first single “Pillowtalk,” which led the Billboard Hot 100 and the Official U.K. Singles Chart. Its parent album, Mind of Mine, also went to No. 1 on both sides of the Atlantic.
Stream Konnakol below.
Nine Inch Nails doesn’t just arrive. Trent Reznor’s industrial metal act steams in, crushes, always leaves an impression.
At the stroke of midnight, NIN delivered that full-body experience with the help of Boys Noize, by way of the collaborative album Nine Inch Noize.
Coming in at 46 minutes, with 12 mashups, the collection was announced ahead of their global debut performance as Nine Inch Noize at Coachella on Saturday (April 11), where reworked classic NIN cuts “Heresy” and others got the live treatment at the Sahara Tent at Coachella.
Nine Inch Noize drops like a hammer ahead of Coachella weekend 2, which should see a repeat performance of Reznor and Co. with the pioneering German techno producer on Saturday evening, April 18.
The collaborative album is a natural progression, and walks the tightrope of capturing the studio sound with the chaos of a concert; it’s both a club record and a beating with a metal club. Boys Noize (real name: Alex Ridha) has been the opening act for Nine Inch Nails’ 2025/26 Peel It Back tour, a 63-date international run during which the two acts also played a segment of the show together.
Previously, Ridha worked with Reznor and Atticus Ross last year when he remixed the duo’s lauded, techno-forward soundtrack to the film Challengers.
The Peel It Back tour concluded in March in Sacramento, CA., a show at which frontman Trent Reznor clarified a statement he’d made at an earlier show in Tulsa, OK, that suggested the band was calling time on touring. “I don’t know if we’re going to be touring anymore after this,” he remarked in a fan-filmed video from the show, “but I’m proud of the show that we’re doing right now. And I’m f—ing grateful that you’ve chosen to spend your evening with us tonight. Thank you very much.”
That’s obviously not the case. “To be clear, I think I said something the other day that then got misconstrued into something that is not intentionally, necessarily true,” he later remarked. “What I said was, ‘This is the last show of this tour and we don’t have any shows booked and we don’t have any plans to book any shows anytime in the future, so far.’”
He continued, “that doesn’t mean we may not tour again. We may tour again. It won’t be next month, it won’t be this year. I never said we were intentionally stopping, and I never meant that.”
NIN has been prolific of late, and full of surprises. The heavy-edged act recently released a companion album to its Tron: Ares soundtrack, titled Tron Ares: Divergence. It’s the followup to TRON: Ares, the first-ever film score from Oscar-winning composers Reznor and Atticus Ross (credited under their Nine Inch Nails), which debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
Nine Inch Nails has landed eight songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and made 18 appearances on the all-genres Billboard 200, including two leaders: 1999’s The Fragile (one week at No. 1) and 2015’s With Teeth (one week). NIN was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.
Stream Nine Inch Noize below.
Olivia Rodrigo‘s new song “Drop Dead” just, well, dropped.
On Friday (April 17), the pop star shared her first single in years to kick off her You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love album era. The track is one of 13 that will appear on the June-slated LP, her first full-length since 2023’s Billboard 200-topper Guts.
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“Drop Dead” also gives fans their first look at the concept behind Rodrigo’s new album, which she explained in a recent interview with British Vogue. “I realized all my favorite romantic love songs were beautiful because they had a tinge of fear or yearning in them,” she said, revealing that You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love is full of “sad love songs.”
“Falling in love, [I thought] that the second I’m in a really great relationship, I’m gonna start feeling good about myself, and this stuff is going to fall into place. But it just doesn’t work like that,” she continued at the time. “I’m definitely a lover girl. Like, I want to be in something committed and so in love. And yeah, it’s hard these days.”
Leading up to the track’s release, the Grammy winner shared videos on social media teasing “Drop Dead.” “I hope you never finish that beer,” she wrote over a video of herself sipping a Guinness, paired with a wispy, buoyant snippet of the single.
In another clip, she gazes out the window of a moving train. “it’s feminine intuition,” reads pink text over the video.
So far, both of Rodrigo’s lead singles to her past two albums have debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. First, “Drivers License” made her a global superstar ahead of the release of debut LP Sour, after which “Vampire” topped the chart ahead of Guts.
Now that it’s finally out, listen to “Drop Dead” below.
Rihanna doesn’t appear to have babies on the brain at the moment.
RiRi seemed to throw some cold water on pregnancy rumors with her response to a content creator on Wednesday (April 15).
Krissy Clemons, who runs the @EverybodyHateKrissy account on IG, posted a video surrounding speculation of Rihanna being pregnant with baby No. 4 at the moment, which made its way onto the Fenty mogul’s radar, as Rih hopped into the comment section with a word.
“Is the baby in the womb with us?” she quipped.
Fans had a laugh at Rih’s cheeky response, which has compiled 250 likes. “And the only voice that matters in this situation has spoken,” one person wrote.
Another chimed in: “They won’t let your womb alone bruh!”
Rihanna looks to have changed her tune a bit from the top of the year, when she insinuated she had baby fever for 2026. Back in January, Love Island alum Montana Rose Brown posted a video about how she’s ready for another baby this year, which drew the superstar’s attention.
“Deciding whether to get hot and sexy or get pregnant in 2026,” Brown wrote. Rih commented back: “Wait! So I’m not crazy then?”
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky welcomed daughter Rocki in September, their third child together alongside RZA (3) and Riot Rose Mayers (2).
It remains to be seen if the Grammy-winning singer will have baby No. 4 with Rocky, who’s set to embark on a global tour this year, later in 2026. Her last pregnancy reveal came in elegant fashion while attending the Met Gala last May.
On the music side, the Navy is still patiently waiting for R9, as Rihanna’s last album, Anti, celebrated its 10th anniversary in January.