Cardi B took a minor spill on stage during her Little Miss Drama tour stop in Las Vegas.

While performing her song “Thotiana” at T-Mobile Arena on Friday (Feb. 13), the 33-year-old rapper fell off a chair mid-routine. The moment was captured by fans in attendance and quickly made its way to social media.

Dressed in a lacy red ensemble, Cardi was straddling a chair and leaning back to engage with the crowd when she appeared to lose her balance and tumble onto the stage. Like a pro, she quickly recovered and continued thrusting her hips from the floor alongside her shirtless male dancers.

After finishing the performance, she stood up to a cheering crowd and joked, “That was the government!” while pointing back to the chair.

The jokes didn’t stop there. After the mishap went viral on social media, Cardi reposted the video on X and wrote the caption, “Can someone put a community note on this? This video is clearly AI.”

The “WAP” hitmaker kicked off her Little Miss Drama Tour at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, Calif., on Wednesday (Feb. 11). During the show, she gave a Selena impression to hype up Latino fans in the crowd before addressing ICE.

“B—h! If ICE comes in here, we gon’ jump they a—es,” she said, drawing loud applause. “I’ve got some bear mace in the back! They ain’t taking my fans, b—h.”

The following day, the United States Department of Homeland Security responded to the Grammy-winner on X. “As long as she doesn’t drug and rob our agents, we’ll consider that an improvement over her past behavior,” the DHS wrote.

Megan Thee Stallion is entering what she calls her “Lover Girl” era — and she says she didn’t plan it.

In a new exclusive interview with PEOPLE, the three-time Grammy winner reflected on her relationship with Dallas Mavericks star Klay Thompson and how focusing on her own healing helped open the door to love.

“Well, I don’t never want to tell [anybody] to just jump in a relationship just because everybody else got one, and I’m not going to tell you to just jump in a relationship because you have to,” the rapper said. “I didn’t even know I was going to be in my relationship, to be honest.”

Megan and Thompson made their red carpet debut in July 2025. But she says the relationship came at a time when she was prioritizing therapy and self-growth.

“I think that because finally I started being in a better mind space about myself and my life, and I had already been doing a lot of work to heal me,” she said. “I had been going to therapy, I had a bunch of activities that I started doing for myself; maybe God just opened up that space for me to have somebody that loved me right.”

Now, she says, she feels a level of ease she hasn’t experienced before.

“This is one of the first times that I’ve ever been just overly comfortable,” Megan said with a laugh: “I’m comfy, babe!”

Still, she cautions fans against chasing love.

“People got to stop trying to be in love and trying to chase love,” she said. “They just got to let it come to them. When it’s meant for you, it’s going to happen. God does not give you nothing that is not meant for you.”

The pair first sent fans into a frenzy in July 2025, when Megan posted a vacation IG photo featuring Klay Thompson in the background.

The Dallas Mavericks star also leaned into the rumors and soft-launched his relationship with the Houston rapper at the time, posting a photo dump of a trip to the Bahamas.

Timothy Very, the longtime drummer of Manchester Orchestra, has died. Bandmates Andy Hull, Robert McDowell and Andy Prince confirmed the news of Very’s death on Saturday (Feb. 14).

His cause of death has not been reported.

Very joined Manchester Orchestra for the group’s third full-length album, Simple Math, which was recorded in 2010 and released via Favorite Gentlemen in 2011, when it debuted in the top 10 on Billboard‘s Top Rock Albums and Top Alternative Albums charts. He began touring with them starting that year.

“The entire Manchester Orchestra family has been devastated by the sudden passing of our brother, Timothy Very,” the band wrote in a statement on Instagram Saturday afternoon. “The most beloved human being any of us were lucky enough to know in this life. We’ve all been dreading sharing this news as we are all still in absolute disbelief.

“Tim was instantly likable and interacted with everyone he met with kindness and warmth. His laugh was infectious and he immediately made people feel invited and encouraged. His humor and energy were the very foundation that held together the entire MO universe. Strangers quickly became friends and friends became family.

“He had an undeniable light that was only matched by his dedication and love for the craft that he was clearly put on earth to do. No words can ever do him justice. Please know, if you are someone who loved Tim, he loved you too.

“The only thing that Tim loved more than creating music was being with his family. You’d be pressed to find a more joyful dad.

“We love you Tim, thank you for loving us. You are a force of positivity that will be a constant presence in the rest of our days,” Manchester Orchestra’s note said.

Very officially started working with the group — originally formed by frontman Andy Hull in the suburbs of Atlanta, Ga., in 2004 — upon former drummer Jeremiah Edmond’s departure in 2010.

Very’s first live performance with Manchester Orchestra was in Camden, London, in 2011 on the U.K. leg of the band’s tour in support of Simple Math. During an interview the following day with Alter the Press, he said, “I threw up during it. It’s been awesome. I can talk about it for hours, but I’ll just say this is what I’ve always wanted to do and these are guys I’ve known for a long time. It’s the best.”

He stayed with the band through the time of his death, appearing on the albums Cope/acoustic companion Hope (2014), A Black Mile to the Surface (2017) and The Million Masks of God (2021), and the EP The Valley of Vision (2023).

“I guess I would like to describe myself as a songwriter’s drummer,” Very said in an episode of the podcast Drummers on Drumming in 2022. “I’d like to think that after doing this for 20 years or so, whatever it’s been at this point, that I’m bringing something to the table that isn’t just drums and grooves and all that, but it’s understanding what a song should have, or could have in it, to hopefully enhance it or hopefully add something — a flavor, a feel to it … Leaving your mark on a song and feeling like, ‘Man, that’s better ’cause I played on it,’ that’s kind of what I’m always sort of circling around and hoping to reach: having an impact on a song that’s just that right thing.”

Very, whose father is also a drummer, began playing the drums himself as a teen, when a neighbor spotted one of his dad’s unused drum sets and asked why he wasn’t playing.

“My dad heard me banging on them and he came down and set ’em up the right way,” he recalled of that day. “That really kind of started the whole path. I wasn’t one of those guys that got to start playing when I was like six years old, got lessons out the gate. It took me a little while to kind of find my identity. I instantly knew that this was something I was going to be doing for a long time.”

Dave Grohl was a huge influence on Very’s drumming, he said, noting that it was Nirvana’s heyday in the ’90s when he started on the instrument. “I instantly jumped in and started trying to learn Nirvana songs, which I think is a killer place to start as a drummer because he [Grohl] writes attainable drum parts, but they’re the perfect parts for songs. It’s a great introduction on how, what I hope to do is service a song, kind of enhance it — he still gets to have his fun, but he’s doing the right thing for the song.”

“It sounds so trite when you’re young, when people are like, ‘Believe in your dreams!’ But some of that is true,” Very said more recently, in a podcast clip on how he got his start in music posted on Manchester Orchestra’s Patreon in July 2025. “If you like actually believe in yourself and are willing to just bite down on the dream and go like, man, I’m gonna hang in here. Whatever it is, whatever you’re doing out there — it doesn’t have to just be music — this can go across the board for anything. You can make it happen. It just won’t happen the way you thought it would.”

Adam Lambert is speaking out against the removal of the Pride flag at Stonewall National Monument in New York City.

In early January, the Trump administration replaced the rainbow-colored flag — a symbol of LGBTQ+ rights and inclusion — with an American flag at the National Park Service–run site in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.

“Stonewall is not just a park, it is sacred historical ground in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights,” Lambert, a founding partner of Pride Live and the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center (SNMVC), wrote on Instagram Thursday (Feb. 12).

The singer continued, “The Pride flag is not a political prop; it is a symbol of visibility, resilience, and the countless lives that have fought, and continue to fight, for dignity and equality. Removing it sends a message that our history and our humanity are negotiable. They are not. We were here. We are here. And we will continue to be.”

The Stonewall National Monument, located across the street from the Stonewall Inn — a historic bar known as the origin point of the LGBTQ rights movement — is a national civil rights landmark established in 2016 by President Barack Obama.

The Pride flag was taken down on Feb. 10 under new guidance from the Trump administration. Weeks earlier, the Department of the Interior had issued federal guidance prohibiting the display of “non-agency” flags in the National Park System.

On the same day Lambert shared his thoughts on social media, local elected officials raised the Pride flag once again at the Stonewall National Monument.

Lambert wasn’t the only artist to speak out against the Pride flag removal. Gracie Abrams also made her opinion clear by resharing comedian Benito Skinner’s post about it being “Demonic” on her Instagram Story on Feb. 10.

Recently elected NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement on X that he was “outraged” by the seizure of the flag.

New York is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, and no act of erasure will ever change, or silence, that history,” he wrote. “Our city has a duty not just to honor this legacy, but to live up to it.”

From career milestones to new music releases to major announcements and those little important moments, Billboard editors highlight uplifting moments in Latin music. Here’s what happened in the Latin music world this week.

New Doc Celebrates the Life and Legacy of Eddie Palmieri

A new documentary feature film, Eddie Palmieri: Sweet Sweet Sugar, directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Omar Acosta, is currently in production. The film focuses on the life and legacy of Grammy-winning pianist, composer, and bandleader Eddie Palmieri, who revolutionized salsa and Latin jazz and shaped the genre as we know it. Set against the backdrop of Spanish Harlem and the Bronx from the 1950s to the 1980s, the film explores how Palmieri used his music to amplify the voices of Puerto Ricans while shaping Latin music’s global influence today.

“Puerto Ricans came to New York with rhythm, passion, and very little else. We didn’t melt into the pot. We reshaped it. Eddie Palmieri is the proof,” said director Acosta in a press release. “Born in the crucible of Spanish Harlem, his music captures the moment Puerto Rico collided with New York and invented something new, something permanent. Eddie speaks for the Puerto Rican diaspora, a people whose fight for dignity and opportunity transformed not only themselves, but American culture and the world beyond it.” 

Produced by David Kennedy and Nick Quested of Goldcrest Films in co-production with Uprising Music NYC and in cooperation with the Eddie Palmieri estate, the film has full access to Palmieri’s music catalog and never-before-seen archival footage.

Outernational Brings Revolution Rock to Bogotá’s Streets

New York troupe Outernational brought the streets of Bogotá to life with a riveting performance on Callejeras Música de a Pie, a YouTube channel that transforms public spaces into open stages. Frontman Miles Solay was joined by Bogotá ensemble — Diana Castro (accordion), Juancho Mendez (tiple), Hector Marín Bedoya (bass), Sergio Arias (guitar) — as they fused their rebellious future rock with Latin American rhythms, such as cumbia, carranga, jazz, and slam poetry in La Candelaria, creating a riveting celebration of music in 15 minutes. Songs “Woman on the Edge of Time,” “La Gente Nueva,” and “Welcome” — all from their 2024 album Welcome to the Revolution, produced by Chad Smith — invited onlookers passing by to connect, dance, and reflect. Watch below.

Peso Pluma Joins the Adidas Family

Adidas announced on Friday (Feb. 13) that Peso Pluma has officially joined its roster of global ambassadors. “Representing the three stripes for Mexico and our music with Adidas is something I dreamed about since I was a kid,” the Mexican superstar said in a statement. “This isn’t just about me, it’s for my people, my culture, and everyone pushing Mexico forward. I’m excited to join the Adidas family and keep showing the world who we are.” Peso joins the ranks of Bad Bunny, Pharrell Williams and Jennie (BLACKPINK), who have also partner with the iconic brand.

Guaynaa & Lele Pons Welcome Baby Girl

Beloved Latin music couple Guaynaa and Lele Pons — who are also Billboard Español cover star alums — welcomed their first born child. They introduced their blue-eyed girl on a shared Instagram post on Wednesday (Feb. 11), captioning, “Say hello to Eloísa.” A bevy of stars congratulated them, including Jay Wheeler, who wrote, “What we create are works of art! God bless her,” and who also recently welcomed a child with his wife. De La Ghetto commented, “She has the same face as her dad.” Meanwhile, Anitta shared her excitement, simply writing, “Loooooove.” See the post below.