Drake sampled Lykke Li’s “Little Bit” on 2009’s So Far Gone, and now he’s interpolated the Swedish singer again, this time her breakthrough hit “I Follow Rivers” nearly two decades later on his new Iceman album, which arrived on Friday.

Rolling Stone caught up with Lykke Li over the weekend to get her thoughts on Drizzy circling back to shrewdly interpolate her 2011 EDM-infused bop on the spiteful “Janice STFU.” “I think it’s potent. It has that raw, revenge, hip-hop energy,” she said of the Iceman standout.

Li thought she was being trolled by co-writer Rick Nowels, who informed her via email that Drake wanted to use “I Follow Rivers” on Iceman. Most of all, the 40-year-old appreciates all of the different lives that the global anthem — which exploded following a The Magician remix — has taken on over the years.

“I mean, it is the most mysterious, incredible gift of my career because it’s had so many lives and different iterations,” she added. “With certain songs, there’s an alchemy or symmetry to them that allows them to have their own life in the world. And as a songwriter, that’s the greatest wish. I’m so grateful and blessed to have one of those songs that doesn’t even belong to me. It has a life of its own.”

Fittingly, it’s almost as if Lykke Li manifested reconnecting with the 6 God, as the singer admitted she’d been “craving” Drake and bumping classic tracks like “Marvin’s Room” recently.

“Strangely enough, I’ve been really craving Drake and have actually been listening to ‘Marvins Room’ lately,’” she revealed, name-checking the 2011 Take Care song. “The old Drake was such an era. When you’d walk into a room and they’d play ‘Hotline Bling.’ … So yeah, I was missing him.”

Lykke Li performed at Coachella in April and dropped her The Afterparty project earlier in May. As for the OVO boss, Drizzy returned with Iceman on May 15 alongside Habibti and Maid of Honour to complete a trifecta of LPs.

Listen to “I Follow Rivers” and “Janice STFU” below.

Lola Young just delivered a performance that cannot be ignored, helping Apple Music launch its brand-new Music Room series.

The British pop singer is the first artist to appear on the new performance series, which aims to give musicians an opportunity to reimagine their own tracks in a smaller, more private setting. The first look at her performance comes exclusively via Billboard on Monday (May 18), with a video of Young singing “Can We Ignore It :(” for a small crowd of fans gathered in Apple Music’s studios in Los Angeles.

After an extended instrumental intro that differs from the original track, Young raises her mic and lets her powerful voice rip in the video, the stripped-back setting giving a new resonance to her lyrics. “I play with fire, kinda like the way I feel when it burns/ If I’m being honest, I’ll take anything as long as it hurts,” she belts, emotion saturating her voice. “I need a doctor, got a sickness, and it’s just getting worse/ I said, ‘I think I’m dying,’ he said, ‘Darling, you’ve been dying since birth.’”

As the song picks up in intensity, the Grammy winner circles the small, carpeted room, taking turns singing straight to members of the crowd bopping along in their seats. “I’m not going to start crying my makeup off, but it was just a moment when you realize, like, art is really all we have,” she says at the end, holding back tears.

“F— it, that’s what I’m saying,” she adds. “That moment when I’m hearing the music, and it’s like, ‘F—, that’s all I’ve ever had.’”

Young also reworked several other songs from her 2025 album, I’m Only F–king Myself — including “d£aler,” “Penny Out of Nothing” and “One Thing” — for the flagship program, with her full performance premiering on Apple Music and YouTube at 2 p.m. ET on Tuesday (May 19). Fans will then be able to listen to recordings from the event compiled on an EP titled Music Room: Lola Young EP, available exclusively on Apple Music.

“Apple Music has always aimed to bring artists and their fans closer,” Rachel Newman, co-head of Apple Music, said in a statement about the new series. “There is no better example of that idea come to life than Music Room. It’s everything that’s pure and even magical about live music, unfiltered and unadorned. No spectacle or stage — just the songs and the stories behind them, shared like never before, the audience just inches away.”

More installments of Music Room with other guest artists are set to roll out in the coming months.

Watch Young’s performance of “CAN WE IGNORE IT :(” for Apple’s new Music Room series above.

In partnership with Billboard, Montauk Yacht Club has announced the return of its Marina Music Series for a third season, kicking things off with a Memorial Day Weekend DJ set from Washed Out on Saturday, May 23, with more talent announcements yet to come.

Washed Out — christened the “Godfather of Chilllwave” by Pitchfork — will set the tone for the summer with a sunset DJ set on May 23 from 5-8 p.m. ET. The singer/songwriter/producer born Ernest Greene has scored two top 20 albums on Billboard‘s Top Dance Albums chart, including his most recent release, 2024’s Notes From a Quiet Life (Sub Pop).

The Marina Music Series will bring a string of live performances to the East End all summer, following a 2025 season that featured sets from NEIL FRANCES and Paco Versailles, as well as inaugural 2024 sets from Anderson .Paak and St. Lucia.

If you’ll be in Montauk next weekend, you can reserve a spot for Washed Out here, or reach out about VIP table reservations for larger groups by emailing myc.dining@montaukyachtclub.com. You can also keep tabs on future summer events and more Marina Music Series announcements at MontaukYachtClub.com/happenings. (Table reservations, hotel guests and marina members have priority access and guaranteed entry; GA guest list is based on capacity and not guaranteed entry.)

“Billboard has long been an incredible partner to us, so we’re thrilled to bring this music series back to Montauk Yacht Club,” says Casey Dolkas, vice president, activations & experiences at Proper Hospitality. “Music has always been central to how we create culture and community across our properties, and there’s no better backdrop for this summer series than Montauk.”

“Billboard has always been focused on bringing artists and fans together in unforgettable settings, and Montauk Yacht Club provides a unique experience,” says Mary Rooney, SVP of experiences at Billboard. “We’re excited to continue building on this partnership and create a summer series in Montauk that feels intimate, elevated, and deeply connected to music culture.”

Built in 1928, Montauk Yacht Club is the largest luxury hotel and marina in the Hamptons, spanning 16 acres, with 106 hotel rooms and more than 230 boat slips on the historic Star Island.

Jason Lee typically doesn’t mince words when it comes to giving his unfiltered opinions as a pop culture critic. However, he realizes there are times he crossed the line, one of those being his offensive remarks about Ariana Grande, which his close friend, Cardi B, called him out for.

The Hollywood Unlocked founder joined If You Knew Better with Amber Grimes on May 14, where Lee recalled a time he overstepped his boundary with his criticism.

“There’s been a few times I have crossed the line. I was in a podcast and I didn’t have a lot of people around me that would say, ‘Damn, you shouldn’t have said that.’ So I would just say anything I wanted. At the time, I just felt some type of way about Ariana Grande,” he said.

The 48-year-old revealed it was Cardi B who checked him and put him in his place, which made him take a step back and reconsider his words.

“It was Cardi B who called and just said like, ‘Nah, you crossed the line. You got to go back and fix that ‘cause that wasn’t right. You’re better than that.’ So although nobody was around me at the time I said it or edited it, it went out,” he explained.

Lee continued: “Cardi was able to check me to go back and fix it. And so I looked at it, I’m like, you know, I got five sisters. I probably would have felt some way if somebody did that to my sister. I didn’t need to deliver it that way. So I did go back and apologize.”

Jason Lee didn’t offer up exactly what he was referring to about the “7 Rings” singer, but he’s possibly alluding to a viral clip from early 2019, which found him making extremely offensive comments including comparing her looks to “an underage piece of meat.”

“You chose to be friends with Nicki Minaj and clearly you pick losers,” he said. “And third of all, if I ever see you on an award show opening your legs up during a performance like you Beyoncé — girl you look like R. Kelly’s snacks you need to stop. She looks like an underage piece of meat ready to be p-ssed on by Robert.”

The former Wild ‘N Out star added: “If you’re f—ing Ariana Grande, you want to f–k little kids, for sure. She is not a woman. That is not a woman, that’s a little girl.”

Lee explained that he doesn’t regret his comments, but used them as a learning experience going forward. “Do I regret it? Nah, because I had to go through these experiences to learn the power of my platform, the power of the tongue, being responsible and owning it,” he said. “And that it’s OK to apologize when you cross the line, because people do want to see you’re human and know you’re not just an emotionless tree that don’t care about other people’s feelings… So yeah, I’ve made mistakes, but I’ve learned from them.”

Watch the entire interview below. Find Jason Lee’s comments about Ariana Grande and Cardi B around the six-minute mark.