Smooth Music News

Being a newlywed is hard enough without your husband’s ex talking trash about you. Alicia Keys is the subject of some venting by Mashonda Tifrere, who was previously married to Keys’ husband, Swiss Beatz. Tifrere tells Sister2Sister that she’s steamed over Keys asking her son to call her “mommy,” citing that Beatz and Keys were having an affair soon after she gave birth to Kaseem, Jr. “We had just had a kid, for crying out loud. Our child was eight months. I found out about Alicia two days before my son turned one. They had been doing their thing for months before that...I asked [Keys] 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 glad she’s having her own child now because now she will have someone to call her ‘umi’."