Alicia Keys offered up a post holiday collabo, “Speechless.” This was produced by her husband, Swizz Beatz and features rapper, Eve, who is currently working on a new studio album.

Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, baby Egypt

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz were seen out with baby Egypt Daoud Dean. The new parents were spotted bringing their newborn baby Egypt to his first check-up.

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz

Alicia and Swizzy were as able to take in a little shopping after the doctor visit.

Mashonda with Kaseem Jr. & Swizzy

Swizz Beatz’ ex-wife Mashonda is bringing the heat in the October issue of Sister2Sister, firing back at those who believe his marriage to Alicia Keys was not rooted in an affair, and making it clear how she feels about Keys allegedly wanting her son to call her “mommy.”

Mashonda Tifrere – who was married to the music producer for four years – is calling the couple’s relationship a straight-up “affair” and says their romance had been going on for several months before she found out.

Keys, who tied the knot with Swizz Beatz on the French island of Corsica last month, is six months pregnant with the couple’s first child, and, according to Mashonda, wants Mashonda and Swizz’s three-year-old son Kaseem Jr. to call her “mommy” or “umi.”

“I asked her to not have my son thinking it was OK to call her ‘umi’. You’re not his umi. You just met my son. ‘Umi’ means ‘mommy’ in Arabic. I’m like no,” said Mashonda. “I’m glad she’s having her own child now because now she will have someone to call her ‘umi’.

“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’.”

Here’s Mashonda’s Q&A as it appears in Sister2Sister:

On Alicia Asking Kaseem 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 girls 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 continues to talk about this if she moved on

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.

Tennis players Serena Williams and Venus Williams attend the Blackberry Torch from AT&T U.S. Launch Party on August 11, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.

Alicia Keys leaves Nikki Beach in France

Omarion out and about in Hollywood.

Chris Rock was spotted talking on his cell phone while walking Up-Town in New York City

Ciara performs at New Look Foundation's First Annual World Leadership Awards at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta

Erykah Badu performs onstage during the 2010 Lollapalooza festival in Grant Park on in Chicago, Illinois

Erykah Badu performs onstage during the 2010 Lollapalooza festival in Grant Park on in Chicago, Illinois

Gabrielle Union attends the Nylon + Express August Denim Issue Party at The London Hotel in West Hollywood

Supermodel Jessica White attends 4 Season Style Management's 4 Season Style Preview at the Eventi Hotel in New York City

LaLa Vazquez-Anthony visits the Garnier Beach house in Malibu.

Rihanna heads to a tattoo parlor in NYC and gets a tattoo on her neck.

Rihanna and Matt Kemp have a romantic dinner in New York City.

Kim Kardashian and Serena Williams leave Il Sole restaurant together

T.I. is seen in flip flops and socks at Reagan National Airport leaving Washington DC

Usher seen arriving at his hotel in New York City.

Photo Credit: Just Jared/Getty Images/Splash News/Bauer Griffin

Swizz Beatz & Alicia Keys on their honeymoon

Newlyweds Alicia and Swizzy are still enjoying their honeymoon while yachting around the coasts of France and Italy.  They decided to make it a group activity by inviting family, friends, and Queen Latifah and Queen's "friend" Hollywood Trainer Jeannette Jenkins.

More intimate pics of Mrs. Beatz in her white bikini with her new hubby and Queen when you read on...

Swizz Beatz & Alicia Keys on their honeymoon

Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys and friends

Alicia Keys & Queen Latifah

Alicia Keys

Queen Latifah & her "Friend" Jeanette Jenkins

Queen Latifah & her "Friend" Jeanette Jenkins

Queen Latifah & her "Friend" Jeanette Jenkins

Photo Credit: Just Jared/Concreteloop

Alicia Keys & Swizz Beatz

Check out the new pics from Alicia Keys, aka Mrs. Beatz & Swizzy wedding. The bride donned a Grecian goddess white gown for her wedding day in Corsica on July 31 (Saturday). More flicks the newest Mr. & Mrs. after the drop...

Alicia Keys & Swizz Beatz

The groom wore Tom Ford, and, of course, the footwear was all Louboutin. Meanwhile Swizz celebrated with not one but two bachelor parties, one in New York and one on Friday (July 30) at Sardinia’s legendary Billionaire Club which is owned by Formula One scion Flavio Briatore and home to the $50k Cristal methuselahs.

Alicia & Swizz

Alicia & her parents

Alicia & her parents

Swizz Beatz

The happy couple

Prince, Alicia & Swizz

Swizz & Alicia

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz attended BDR’s 11th annual Art For Life Benefit Party at East Hampton Estate this weekend.

Swizz Beatz attends the 11th annual Art For Life benefit party at Russell Simmons' East Hampton Estate in East Hampton, New York.

Swizz & Alicia

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz are rumored to be tying the knot during a lavish ceremony this weekend aboard a yacht.

The couple will reportedly exchange vows on a 200-foot vessel off the coast of the Caribbean.

A source is quoted as saying: “We’re being picked up in Miami and then we’re going to the Caribbean. I don’t know exactly where, but it’s very exciting.”

Reps for the couple had yet to respond to requests for a comment.

Alicia Keys And Jay-Z

Alicia Keys and Jay-Z are teaming up for a good cause and performing t at a charity ball to benefit those affected by HIV/AIDS .

Keys and Jigga will hit the stage alongside Sade at the annual “Black Ball” September 30 at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.

The charity event will benefit “Keep A Child Alive” whose mission is to assist children and families affected by HIV/AIDS.

Keys is also a co-founder of the organization which has helped to raise over $10 million since 2004.

Keep a Child Alive also provides AIDS care through doctors, nutrition, testing, transportation, and treatment for those infected.

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Mashonda

In a eye opening interview with VIBE.com Mashonda opens up about letting go, moving on and why it was so important for her to talk to Alicia Keys:

It was very important for you to sit down with Alicia if she was going to be around your son. Safe to assume that happened?

When I wrote her that Twitter letter everybody wanted to say things like ‘Oh, what do you need to meet her for? It’s not her problem, it’s Swizz’s.” I’m like, ‘You have a kid, go through what I went through and then talk to me.’ I’m not having my son around anybody I don’t know. I don’t give a shit who you are and how much money you have and what management he’s going to be under when he visits you. I need to see you and I need you to see how serious I am about him. And that’s what happened. We had to sit down, and I told her how I felt. I didn’t mention anything else, it was all about my son and it was fine after that. I’m not going sit and talk to [them] about what happened between the three of us. This is about my son.

How did you introduce Kaseem to Alicia?

‘This is daddy’s friend Alicia… Daddy’s girlfriend.’ I don’t want him to ever go over there feeling uncomfortable.

When did this meeting finally take place?

It took a good year and a half. I think that only happened in March.

How was Alicia’s demeanor?

She just listened.

This all sounds like a really awkward gathering…

It wasn’t awkward; I wouldn’t have done it if I wasn’t ready. I said what I had to say as a mom. It was a whole sit down dinner. So you know how intimate that is. There are certain things we have to do as women in order to move forward.

Very true, have you received an apology from either one of them yet?

Nope.

Surprising?

No, because I honestly feel like they think they didn’t do anything wrong. I don’t care about their apology. As long as he’s a great dad to my son and she’s a good step-mom, they don’t have to worry about apologizing because they will never understand or care about the pain I went through. That was a big thing at first, I felt like nobody was respecting me. He’s not respecting me, she’s not respecting me. [But] then I had to say, ‘Fu*k my ego, because this can’t be an ego thing. If it is I’m going to fall down and die.’ People feel that they are so happy and they are so in love, but what really happens is that real love does not come from a foundation when you hurt somebody else. Love does not happen like this. Love doesn’t involve hurt, lies, or destructing anybody else’s soul.

Mashonda also openned up about her new man producer Michael Honablue pictured below..

Mashonda with new boo Michael Honablue

The pair attended the book release party for Aliya S. King’s novel Platinum this Monday

You’ve been spotted with producer, Michael Honablue. Going well?

Yeah. It’s only been two months, [but] Michael and I have a really good thing. I’ve been really private with my personal life, but I will say that Michael and myself share a lot of characteristics. He’s just a good guy.

When did you feel you could comfortably date again?
I had to be fully divorced before anything because it was important to show my son that that’s just not how you do it. You’re not going to do this to your wife… over my dead body are you going to do this to your wife. If you don’t want to be with her, you wait until your shit is right, [then] you do all your public stuff. That was really important for me to [be] an example for him. So I waited. It wasn’t really an interest of mine to date anyways. I just really wanted to figure out me and my next move because I was so confused and hurt. If you’re not complete with yourself there is no way you can be complete in a relationship. But now I’m in a really good place, and I only mess with positive people. I will not entertain negativity.

You were with Swizz for ten years, married for four, is it weird being with a man that isn’t your ex-husband?
It is definitely weird. The first time I went on a date with somebody, I cried. It was like ‘Oh my God.’ I didn’t even know how to talk to another man. It was just weird being there, but I knew it was something I had to do, a part of moving on. Thank God I’ve been blessed to deal with only good, educated, sensitive men. God will send the right person for me. [Right now] my son is my number one man.

Read the full interview HERE

Alicia Keys Essence Festival

Singer Alicia Keys fell on stage during her Essence Music Festival performance on Saturday night (July 3). She recovered quickly but Alicia should be more careful. Check out the video below...

Alicia Keys took the stage at 12:30am at New Orleans' Essence Festival almost an hour after her original time.  Some  fans walked out before her set was over, while others said her performance was just okay.

A writer for New Orleans' paper the Times Picayune ripped Ms. Keys a new one regarding her antics. They wrote:

Keys is only four months or so along in her pregnancy, but she is apparently sensitive about her appearance. Before her Saturday night headlining set at Essence Fest, her representatives forbade professional photographers from shooting her. (The ban had no effect on the dozens of fans snapping photos.)

Newsflash, Alicia: We all know you’re pregnant. And you have no reason to be self-conscious, not when you flatter four-inch heels, tight leather pants and a functional yet snazzy black top with green sequins.

Keys returned to the Superdome with a .500 average. She fell flat at Essence in 2002, then redeemed herself in 2005. Early on Saturday, she flirted with a repeat of ’02. That year, she looked as if she expected adoration simply for showing up; her look-at-me dabbling on multiple instruments failed to impress an audience well-schooled in R&B authenticity.

She dabbled some this year, too, at one point squaring off with a guitarist armed with a key-tar guitar/keyboard combo. She seemed slightly winded after “You Don’t Know My Name,” and guzzled water often. In ’02, the curtain dropped before she performed “Fallin’,” her breakthrough. This year, she got it out of the way early, but it failed to catch fire to match the flames filling the video backdrop.

The “Essence exit” began. Folks streamed into the aisles, figuring they were better off beating traffic than staying with a set that started 50 minutes late and didn’t seem to be going anywhere fast.

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Photo Credit: Frank Micelotta

Swizz Beatz

Producer and Alicia Keys baby daddy, Swizz Beatz better get ready to pay up to Uncle Sam. Swizzy has been hit with an IRS lien for $652,787 for unpaid 2008 income taxes.

This is not a first time Swizzy who, along with his ex wife Mashonda, has had several liens filed against him amounting to almost $2.2 Million:

2006 – Somerset County, N.J.: $842,645 lien
2008 – Rockland County, NY: $556,989 lien
2009 – Rockland County, NY: $162,300 tax warrant

“We have been discussing the issue with the government for years and are currently negotiating an amicable resolution of the dispute,” Swizzy’ attorney said.

Alicia better make him sign a pre-nup.

Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys did a recent interview with Fabulous Magazine. And when asked about being a homewrecker, she quoted Oprah and kept her lips sealed:

Alicia Keys on loving Swizz: “Oh yes,” she says dreamily. “I am very much in love. Right now love is my main inspiration. Love is the one thing we all want in our lives and I am completely surrounded by it. Love fills you up in a way nothing else can and it’s the most amazing, amazing thing.”

On motherhood: She’s even considering adopting a child from Africa in the future. “I’m so looking forward to being a mum,” she says. “My mum was the best mum to me. She was my best friend as well as my mum. And I want to be the same to my child.”

Fabulous Mag on the homewrecking: “Both Alicia and Swizz have strongly denied that they were together while he was married. In fact, despite regularly being seen at the same events and holidaying together in Hawaii in January, they only admitted they were a couple in May, when they were photographed hand-in-hand following Alicia’s sell-out gig at London’s O2 arena. Their public outing came just weeks after Swizz’s divorce was formalised. Two days later, headlines announced they were planning to marry and expecting a baby. Not exactly music to Mashonda’s ears.”

But Alicia won’t be drawn into discussing her fiancé’s ex. She shakes her head: “Oprah Winfrey is the wisest woman I know. She’s like my big, clever, older sister. A while ago she gave me one piece of advice which was to never get drawn into talking about that sort of thing. All I know is that right now my life is really, really good.”

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Alicia Keys

Black Eyed Peas

Here are photos from the 2010 BET AWARDS. Including performance pics and audience photos.

Ciara

Drake-Jeezy

El Debarge

Kanye

Patty-Janelle Monae

Prince

Prince

Chris Brown

Daniel Gibson & Keyshia Cole