The rumor mill is in full affect today over a shocking story (not shocking at all to me, but lets continue) involving Swizz Beats and his former baby momma Mashonda. Normally I wouldn’t post such nonsense, but I know how popular this particular storyline is.
I really hate to put someone’s dirty laundry in the street, but insiders are telling us that despite his public appearance of a dotting husband, producer Swizz Beatz is allegedly still hooking up with his ex-wife, singer Mashonda, behind Alicia Keys’ back.
The insider says that although Alicia is very accommodating, Swizz is allegedly a notorious cheater and “just can’t help himself.”
Our source says that Mashonda considers this the “ultimate payback” to Alicia, who started dating Swizz while he was still married and very much together with Mashonda. The source tells us that in the end, Mashonda is “going to stick it to both of them” and is carefully documenting every encounter with Swizz to go into her upcoming memoir/tell-all book entitled Death of a Mermaid.
I wouldn’t have given this story any attention if were not for All Hip-Hop cosigning the scoop. Personally, I could give a rats ass. In my eyes everybody is a wretched whore in this situation. SMH.
Music celebrities, socialites, models, TV Personality and actors alike all came together last night in memory of Alexander McQueen. Vouge Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour brought fashion to the forefront at this years Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City.
The 2011 Met Gala, as it’s more commonly known, featured an exhibit, the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty retrospective, which honored the late designer’s body of work.
Alicia Keys & husband Swizz Beatz.
10 bucks John Legend picked this out for her.
Kanye West looking angry as usual (born in Atlanta)
(Atlanta star) Janelle Monae staying true to who she is, but still up’s the ante just a bit.
Jennifer is always so severe with her fashions.
Jennifer Hudson looking, eh.
Rihanna looked puzzling in Stella McCartney. And what’s up with that hair? Is she auditioning for “Tangled 2″
(Atlanta has been) Ciara looked amazing last night with her supermodel looks.
Solange Knowles attends the “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2011 in New York City.
I didn’t even know that you could adopt a village. But of course “The Beatz” made it happen. Watch Swizz above talk about how he and Alicia Keys are putting their money where their mouths are.
Alicia Keys just cant catch a break. Key’s new husband’s former wife Mashonda talks to Jaime Foster brown about her issues with Keys and the alleged man stealing.
On Alicia asking her son Kasseem, Jr. to call her “Mommy”:
S2S: You said that Alicia wanted your baby to call her “mommy”. How do you know that she said that?
Mashonda: My son told me.
S2S: And you told her that is not going to happen?
Mashonda: Yeah. I sent her an email and asked her to please respect what I am to him and it’s not right for her to think that is okay. She never replied. She doesn’t reply to me. She has never given me that respect.
S2S: What does Swizz say?
Mashonda: He said okay, he would stop it. He wouldn’t let her do it.
S2S: That would be kind of confusing for the child.
Mashonda: Oh, it is. It is so unfair to the child. I have been in contact with the little girl’s mother (the woman in England who has Swizz’s baby). She’s a young girl. She’s a spiritual girl. She apologized to me… I don’t even judge her. I can’t. She’s totally different than the other one. This other one knew. Alicia knew about me 100 percent. Swizz introduced me at prior events. They were signed to the same record company. She knew. And I emailed her and asked her to stop doing what she was doing and she disregarded me. Just like she disregarded me when I asked her to not have my son thinking it was okay to call her “umi.” You’re not his umi. You just met my son.
S2S: “Umi” is like “mommy”?
Mashonda: “Umi” means “mommy” in Arabic. I’m like no. And then after I spoke to the lady in London, she told me that she tried to get her daughter to call her “umi” as well.
S2S: She’s met the lady in London?
Mashonda: Yes. I’m glad she’s having her own child now because now she will have someone to call her “umi”.
S2S: Wow.
Mashonda: Like, if you want to be a stepmother, that’s great. Be a stepmother. But don’t think that it’s okay to make a kid call you “umi” or “mommy.”
On why she keeps talking about her divorce and Swizz’s affair with Alicia:
Mashonda: People ask me why am I still talking about this and why don’t I just leave it alone. I’m like, this is going to help somebody. My story is a universal thing. This is not just something that only happened to me: This happens to women every day. Mine was just ugly. If I can help the next woman get through and be positive, then I’m going to talk about it.
S2S: Were you guys dating other people before he got with Alicia? Were you guys separated?
Mashonda: We were married. Sleeping in the same bed and having sex every night while he was seeing Alicia. Okay? It was an affair. 100 percent. I don’t know why people want to change that rule so much. We had just had a kid, for crying out loud. Our child was 8 months. I found out about Alicia two days before my son turned 1. They had been doing their thing for months before that.
“The Gyantunplugged Show” on Beehivefm, [Sundays 6-10pm] got into a very heated discussion over Fantasia Barrino, and the public backlash she endured. One of my arguments was how two faced everyone has become. Nobody can deny that Fantasia and Alicia Keys are in the EXACT same situation. Keys involving herself with a married man, getting pregnant, and subsequently rushing the alter to not damage her public image.
Though the reaction was strong, it hasn’t affected Keys position in her celebrity, or the game overall. However the much darker, and more ethic American Idol winner is caught cheating on a married man and everybody’s got their pitchforks, and is chasing the poor girl through the town like a wretched whore.
Why are we looking at these similarity situations and being so biased? Well, in my daily blog search it seems someone also agrees with my logic.
What I found to be most interesting is that Alicia Keys has been able to escape this type of media scrutiny in the mainstream press, even though she reportedly was engaged in a three-year affair with a married man, which ultimately resulted in the demise of the marriage. Keys also became pregnant and engaged to super producer Swizz Beatz while the man was separated but still married nonetheless. She then married Beatz weeks after his divorce was finalized. The black press have let both Fantasia and Keys have it for their indiscretions, but the mainstream media took to the Fantasia story like a rabid dog while ignoring the illicit actions of Keys.
They painted Keys’ wedding as a fairy tale, even though she allegedly did what many women other than Angelina Jolie consider to be the unthinkable: steal another woman’s husband and get pregnant before the divorce is even final. Most women on the receiving end of that behavior would take the pregnancy as a great big open-handed slap to the face. Of course, we don’t know if Keys “stole” Beatz from his wife — no one knows what goes on in marriages — but it appears that she was romantically involved with someone who was married. Beatz’s wife, Mashonda, maintains that she was blindsided by the affair with Keys, who was even a guest at her baby shower.
I’m wondering why the mainstream media are so willing to let Keys off the hook for what many would call socially unacceptable behavior at best, and immoral behavior at worst, while taking Barrino to task for similar behavior.
It’s an interesting argument. And one that I think deserves further examination.
