WENN Swizz Beats Challenges Timbaland To A Beat Showdown At A Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor press conference in Brooklyn on Friday, the highly anticipated fight wasn’t the only showdown in talks. Swizz Beatz took the stage at said event, where he called out fellow producer Timbaland for talking ish, and then challenged him to a battle of the beats. This isn’t Swizz’s first time around by any means. 10 years ago, the Bronx native battled Kanye West on stage at Summer Jam. Much more recently, Beatz and Just Blaze took on one another in an epic, star-studded Instagram Live battle. After Blaze and Swizz’s showdown, there were rumors swirling of a Timbaland v Pharell matchup to come, but it seems we’re gonna see Timbo take on Swizz first. Timbaland happily accepted the challenge, and the battle of the beats is on. There’s no official date set for this event, but it’s sure to be one for the books.
Mashonda And Alicia Keys Club Together In Germany The side-chick saga that led to Swizz Beats’ divorce from Mashonda and marriage to Alicia Keys is beyond water under the bridge at this point. So much so, in fact, that Mashonda and Alicia’s relationship goes well beyond cordial and mature into an all-out firendship at this point. Alicia and Mashonda have both gone on record to praise their blended family preciousness and talk about how they were all able to mature to get things working functionally for the kids…but we’ve never seen these two just chilling one-on-one without any of the boys or Swizz around. But, as both ladies were in Berlin last night for Swizz’s “No Comission” Art Event , the two decided to hit a spot together and rock out to Kendrick Lamar. Welp good for them! We definitely don’t want to tell all the adulterers out there that they’re on the right track…but things certainly worked out swimmingly for this trio. Unless Mashonda is on some secret mission to get close enough to Alicia to end her life and not be implicated…but it LOOKS like everyone is cool. Ladies, if you lost your marriage this way, do you think you could kick it in VIP with your ex-husband’s lover-turned-new wife years on down the road? WENN/Splash/Instagram
Chance the Rapper is feeling remorseful after a dig at a major hip hop label. It doesn’t help that the label is led by the one and only Dr. Dre. During Chance’s 2017 “Be Encouraged Tour,” he made fun of major labels by projecting satirized versions of their logos on an LED screen. Chance, who […]
Swizz Beats and Alicia Keys’ Son Genesis Beatboxes and Raps Looks like those music talent genes are STRONG in this family ! His big brother is already a credited producer and composing songs at the age of 5…and now Genesis is flexing his musical muscles as well. Swizz captured this video of his baby boy beatboxing better than folks 10 times his age, even dropping some preschool bars while he’s at it. TOO adorable. Genesis ad Egypt should start a group… Instagram
Mashonda Supports Alicia Keys’ Song About Her Family With Swizz Mashonda may have been pushed to the side for her then-husband Swizz Beats to make room in his life for his new woman Alicia Keys years ago…but the trio have long since moved past their rocky beginnings and become a close-knit unit , raising their family together as a team. Seemingly completely free of bitterness or shade in the present day, Mashonda showed her support for Alicia Keys’ latest single, dropping at midnight. Entitled “Blended Family,” Mashonda says the song details their journey of “love, growth, and healing” together and basically shows how beautiful things can become after the storm of side-chickery : Wow. Welp…great to see them all getting along and getting over the whole “side chick” drama from yesteryear. A lot of people could learn from her…right? We’re very interested to see what Alicia has to say in her new jam… Instagram
Mashonda Supports Alicia Keys’ Song About Her Family With Swizz Mashonda may have been pushed to the side for her then-husband Swizz Beats to make room in his life for his new woman Alicia Keys years ago…but the trio have long since moved past their rocky beginnings and become a close-knit unit , raising their family together as a team. Seemingly completely free of bitterness or shade in the present day, Mashonda showed her support for Alicia Keys’ latest single, dropping at midnight. Entitled “Blended Family,” Mashonda says the song details their journey of “love, growth, and healing” together and basically shows how beautiful things can become after the storm of side-chickery : Wow. Welp…great to see them all getting along and getting over the whole “side chick” drama from yesteryear. A lot of people could learn from her…right? We’re very interested to see what Alicia has to say in her new jam… Instagram
Last night, after his multiple Grammy triumph, Kendrick Lamar celebrated with friends and bottles of Moët & Chandon at the Roosevelt Hotel in LA. The rapper had plenty to celebrate after taking home awards for Best Rap Performance, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Album… plus he had a FYE performance ! Legendary music producer and composer Timbaland was in attendance along with certified crooner Miguel and his gorgeous girlfriend Nanzanin Mandi . The latter were also spotted stealing a kiss while Swizz Beats toasted Kendrick’s Grammy run. Other notables in attendance included Black Eyed Peas’s Apl. De. Ap. and actress Anna Kendrick and magician David Blane, who dazzled guests with his slight of hand. Congratulations to the GOAT! #LongLiveKingKendrick Photo Credit – Moët & Chandon Nectar Imperial Rosé
Blakey poo we see you shining. Blake Griffin Covers GQ Magazine’s October Issue GQ just put Blake Griffin on the cover of their first ever age issue… and we’ve got some choice quotes for you below via GQ.com : On Playing For “Racist” Donald Sterling: Were you aware of Donald Sterling’s reputation then? When the draft lottery came out and the Clippers said they were gonna draft me, I went to Google to find out more about the Clippers, because I didn’t know a lot. And I was like, “Okay, team owned by Donald Sterling.” So then I typed in “Donald Sterling” in Google, and the first thing that pops up is “Donald Sterling racist.” And I was like, “Whoa!” So obviously I explored that, read a whole bunch of articles, read the deposition at one of his court cases. Which was awesome, if you ever have time to read some of the depositions. [laughs] I’ve only seen the highlights. Did you see the one where he’s talking about being in the back of the limo? You gotta just type in “Donald Sterling deposition.” [ Later I do, and this is what comes up, from a 2003 suit, regarding a sexual companion: “Well, I fool around sometimes. I do. When a girl seduces me and tells me how much she wants to suck on me and take my shoes off and licks my feet and touches me. When I’m in a limousine, she takes off all her clothes. The limo driver said, ‘What is going on?’ And she started sucking me on the way to Mr. Koon’s house. And I thank her. I thank her for making me feel good.” ] I’ll let you read it, because I don’t want to do it—I don’t want to do it injustice. And then, at the very end…just read it. [ The response: “Sir, the question was, is this your handwriting?”] So I was aware, but not until right before I got drafted. After you get drafted, and you’re reading this stuff—is there any recourse for a player in your situation? No. Not at all. I mean, what was I gonna do? And for five years with the team, it was fine. Nothing came out. Nothing happened. I never really saw him that much. I saw him right when I first got drafted. I had to go to a couple of events that he does, which was awful. Is it true that he would bring women in to the locker room to watch players shower? He would bring them in the locker room. Guys would be in there. The showers are kind of elsewhere. I don’t think they would really go back there. But he would bring people in the locker room while we were just in towels. One year he came in and led a “hip hip hooray” chant and held my arm up in the air. Then he went to another teammate and did the same thing. Guys just started scattering as fast as possible. [laughs] Would you guys commiserate about working for someone like that? No, we really didn’t. Guys would tell different stories about their interactions with him. And then when all this came out… We heard that it was gonna come out the day before it came out—our coach told us—and this is during the playoffs. We were up in San Francisco, in a team meeting. And because we didn’t know exactly what was said, we were just kind of like, “Oh, okay, well, whatever.” And then I remember waking up Saturday morning to, like, twenty texts. This is 7 a.m. And then, throughout the day, just bombarded with texts about it. I ended up turning my phone off, because we were trying to focus. Did you listen to the tape? Oh yeah. [laughs] I listened to it like the first thing in the morning when I woke up, searched for it and listened to it from beginning to end, and then listened to the second one. How did you feel, listening? It was unfortunate. I mean, for me, like I said, the first thing I ever Googled about the man, the first thing that popped up was “racist.” So I was aware. I hate to say this, and it might sound ignorant, but I wasn’t surprised that all this came up. Not necessarily the manner in which it was said, or the exact things, but like I said: This was my first impression of him. Hit the flip for Blake’s views on religion, dating and his experiences as a new dad. Photo Credit: GQ/SebastianKim
