

97 radio personality Ebro Darden and attended by Swizzs wife Alicia Keys. “At a time did feel very far away,” she said. A battle between beatsmiths Just Blaze and Swizz Beatz and a shot of verbal. Keys, who in 2016 penned song “Blended Family” about their new dynamic, also acknowledged how far the three of them have come. “I didn’t want to go in with a bunch of emotions … I wanted to see her as a soul.” Up until the meeting pointing,” Tifrere quipped of her nervous energy. “I prayed and I meditated the day before. Keys, 37, reserved a table at a quiet restaurant so they could meet in private. The women also talked about getting over the hump of their first one-on-one meeting. “I just felt like, ‘What if we didn’t have that bond?’ I would be sitting on the couch not knowing what to do completely lost.” Tifrere, 40, said, thanking her son’s “bonus mom.” “Moments like that let me know all the work paid off… It was the perfect demonstration of blended.” Tifrere recalled getting a text message from Beatz, 40, about the incident, but it was Keys’ call with all the updates and details that mattered the most to her. got his finger smashed in a sliding door and the injury was so severe it required emergency surgery. suffered an unfortunate accident in Thailand that the trio’s co-parenting skills were put to the test.ĭuring New Year’s 2017, Kasseem Jr. The entire evening, the family reiterated how checking one’s ego led to their success in co-parenting. To complicate the timeline, Keys and Beatz tied the knot in 2010 and welcomed their first son, Egypt, later that year. The details of their split aren’t exactly clear, but at the time the press painted it as a nasty love triangle.

Tifrere was married to Beatz, whose real name is Kasseem Dean, from 2004 to 2010. The trio came together to promote Tifrere’s new book, “ Blend: The Secret to Co-Parenting and Creating a Balanced Family,” in which she explains how they all worked through their differences to create a blended family. The love Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz and Mashonda Tifrere showed on stage at the 92nd Street Y on Wednesday night was eight years in the making.
