Published: Tuesday - June 17, 2008
Words by Allen Starbury
Swizz Beatz (Photo: J Records)
Rumors circulated the internet last week about singer Alicia Keys breaking up producer Swizz Beatz marriage to Mashonda. The platinum plus producer dismissed the rumors to MTV recently, claiming the former couple just had to move on.
"That sh** just looks like drama," he said. "They got another big name involved. No, I'm not doing [any] f***ing interviews. Only thing I'm commenting on is music-related. I don't comment on my personal life. Why start now? You start commenting on that sh**, then they start twisting it out. I'm not gonna speak about nothing. They [gave Mashonda] two pages in Hip Hop Weekly. She didn't even say nothing about Alicia. They blew it up on MediaTakeout.com. They flipped that into some other sh**.
"I'm not hiding anything," he added. "I can see if I was hiding something. I'm a grown man. Nobody is living no perfect life. Mashonda has a single coming out that I funded, photo shoots that I funded. We made our statement that we're still working together. They didn't wanna believe it. I said I would be continuing to support her career. Nobody wants to look at that sh**. They wanna look at 'Alicia Keys.' That sh** is ignorant."
Swizzy continues that divorce is an everyday part of life, and he's no different than anyone else.
"Everybody can have their fun right now talking that dumb sh** about my divorce and all that," Swizzy said. "I'mma give them something to talk about. People get divorced every f***in' day. They need to worry about more serious things."
Aside from the rumor mill, the producer talked more about what he's got going on musically. Right now, he said he's been working with none other than Michael Jackson, as well as other big things.
"I'm working on this new Michael Jackson sh**," Swizz told MTV. "I'm probably gonna be producing his tour and everything. I'm designing planes for Gulf Stream and everything. They called me. I'm around different people. I'm around billionaires. I'm around people like that."
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