Being Mr. Alicia Keys is turning into a pretty lucrative gig for hip-hopster Swizz Beatz.
On Friday, the sometimes rapper and superproducer was named as the first-ever producer-in-residence at the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at New York University’s world-renowned Tisch School of the Arts.
Effective immediately.
According to school administrators, Swizz (real name Kaseem Dean) will be offering group lectures, one-on-one sessions, and mentoring as well as songwriting advice to Tisch students. The former DJ is a native of New York’s gritty South Bronx and has produced hits for acts including Drake, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Metallica, Eve, and Beyonce.
It’s a boy for singing star Alicia Keys and her husband Swizz Beatz — who we affectionately like to call Toucan Sam! A. Keys and Swizzy welcomed the arrival of their son Egypt Dauode Dean at New York’s St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital late Thursday.
“I’m so thankful for everything I been blessed with in my life wowwwwww!” Beatz Tweeted of the baby news on Friday.
Little Egypt is the first child for the “Un-Thinkable” singer and the third (depending on who’s telling the story) for her superproducer hubby.
Alicia, 29, and Swizz, 31, married July 31, after a mini-scandal erupted over claims that the Harlem-bred humanitarian began sleeping with Swizz while he was still married to singer Mashonda.
A. Keys has married the man who will likely cheat on her a few babies down the road.
Here are two shots from superproducer Swizz Beatz and Grammy-winning songbird Alicia Keys’ European wedding this weekend in the southern Corsica, Piantarella in France. Alica Keys wore a Vera Wang dress complete with colored diamond tiara. The groom sported a custom suit designed Tom Ford.
The couple has been dating since 2008, after meeting during Swizzy’s ill-fated marriage to jilted R&B singer Mashonda. The are expecting their first child in November.
“Even now with Alicia’s pregnancy, I believe she deserves privacy. I hate hearing people wish bad stuff on her and the baby. This is a child, an actual life.”
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned….and then there’s Mashonda: For the first time ever, the ex-wife of Swizz Beatz is revealing the whole truth and nothing but. In a candid two-part interview, R&B singer Mashonda, 29, opens up to VIBE Magazine’s Tracy Garraud about her turbulent union with the hip-hop superproducer, the affair that left her crushed, and why she’s more resilient than ever.
Newly-engaged parents-to-be Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys will welcome their new bundle of joy in a new pad. The couple plunked down $14 million for a Crosby St. penthouse duplex in the Soho section of Alicia’s native Manhattan.
Rumor has it that the 5,818 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms pad was originally priced at $19,500,000.
The Taxman Cometh For Alicia’s Baby Daddy. Hip-hop superproducer Swizz Beatz was slapped with an IRS lien of $652,727 on June 3 for unpaid 2008 income tax, The New York Post spilled on Wednesday.
Alicia Keys showed off her baby bump in a form-fitting white romper on Good Morning America Friday. Keys and superproducer fiance Swizz Beatz announced the pregnancy last month and the baby is due in the fall.
The child is the first for the couple. Swizz has two sons from two previous relationships.
Swizz Beatz was characteristically mum about girlfriend Alicia Keys and the baby that they’re expecting together during an appearance on Good Day New York Tuesday. The hip-hop superproducer was on hand to chat about his work with Bronx Charter School for the Arts.
Alicia Keys’ unborn baby with producer fiance Swizz Beatz was been blessed in a traditional Zulu ceremony during the star’s recent trip to South Africa .
Whatever happened to all those rumors accusing Alicia of being a lesbian?
Alicia Keys — Grammy-winning songbird and alleged homewrecker — is expecting her first child with fiance Swizz Beats, a newly-divorced anteater DJ and producer who reportedly began dating the “Un-Thinkable” star while his relationship with his now ex-wife, R&B singer Mashonda, was still ongoing.
