{"id":371102,"date":"2026-10-12T16:46:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371102\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:46:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:46:43","slug":"the-voices-queen-latifah-faces-tough-battle-round-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371102\/","title":{"rendered":"The Voice\u2019s Queen Latifah Faces Tough Battle Round Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queen Latifah<\/a> is learning rather quickly how difficult it is to pick a winner of The Voice<\/a>\u2019s battle rounds.<\/p>\n

In Us\u2019 exclusive sneak peek of the Monday, October 12, episode of NBC\u2019s singing competition series, contestants Alt Bloom and Morgan Lett quickly wow the coaches when they perform a special rendition of Lauryn Hill\u2019s \u201cEx-Factor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou all just crushed Lauryn Hill on national television!\u201d Kelly Clarkson shares in the preview. \u201cI\u2019m going to be honest. I was worried for you. People should generally not cover Lauryn Hill. That was so good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soon after the performance, Queen, 56, prepares to make \u201cthe toughest decision of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe Voice\u2019s first-ever \u201cBattle of the Champions\u201d has crowned a winner. During the season 29 finale on Tuesday, April 14, Carson Daly revealed that Alexia Jayy of Adam Levine\u2019s team received the most votes. \u201cThere is no one more deserving of this honor,\u201d Levine, 47, said after Jayy\u2019s win. In lieu of live shows with [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re both winners to me,\u201d she says. \u201cYou\u2019re both in my top. Wow, this is wild.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before a decision is made, Queen\u2019s fellow coaches offer some encouragement and feedback about the soulful rendition.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be extremely difficult to top how fun that was for everybody. \u2026 I don\u2019t know how you pick one of these,\u201d Riley Green says. \u201cMaybe Morgan? You had so much energy the whole performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Kelly, 44, praised Alt, 36, and compared his vocal range to fellow coach and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAlt, you were the surprise for me,\u201d she shares. \u201cI\u2019m leaning a little towards you because that was such a tall order.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adam, 47, replies, \u201cAlt, you stuck out because of your range. Yo, I got range, but you got more, almost. I was like, \u2018Damn.\u2019 It\u2019s going to boil down to taste and what Queen wants to go with. You both are amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the blind auditions now in the rearview mirror, The Voice season 30 is heading to the battles as artists from the same team perform together. Only one singer, however, per battle will move on to the next round of competition.<\/p>\n

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\n Related: \u2018The Voice\u2018 Winners Through the Years: Where Are They Now?<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe Voice has been stunning viewers for years with amazing talent from across the United States, crowning 28 winners since it premiered in 2011. During season 19 of the NBC singing competition series, New York native Carter Rubin blew audiences away with his singing abilities and saw coach Gwen Stefani secure her first win. Just [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n

Patti LaBelle will serve as an advisor for Team Queen while Carly Pearce helps on Team Riley. Alex Warren will share his wisdom for Team Adam as Ariana DeBose helps out Team Kelly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m emotional over here because you were so good,\u201d Queen tells her two team members before host Carson Daly asks her to reveal the winner. \u201cWatching you all sing together has been so beautiful because this arrangement of this song? Nobody has ever done this arrangement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Find out who she picks when The Voice airs on NBC Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET. Stream episodes the next day on Peacock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Latifah is learning rather quickly how difficult it is to pick a winner of The Voice\u2019s battle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[157,68,2538,9,24,63,122,124,123,3296,59412,1869],"class_list":["post-371102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-reality-tv","tag-the-voice","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}