Singer Alicia Keys and her husband, Swizz Beatz, welcomed their first child together, Egypt Daoud Dean, on Oct. 14 in New York City, according to People. The couple were recently married in July.
Oct 16
2010
01:21 PM ET
Alicia Keys gives birth to baby boy
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I’m gonna name my child Madagascar!
Alicia is from the ghetto too dawg. They both made millions and gained some class and all that. Swizz, like all other rappers who were hot before the days of emo rap just retained that image because thats what his fans like, I’m sure he is just as well educated and refined as her at home
That’s not a nice thing to say. That’s just in his music; that’s not what he is outside of his hip-hop sounds. He felt that Alicia was the one for him and they married.
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happy for them
Alicia is fake ghetto. She graduated at the top of her high school class and was accepted to Columbia University.
To Teri:
A person can be from the ghetto & still be intelligent.
Brandy, of course they can. I meant Alicia’s persona if fake ghetto. I’ve heard her speak perfect intelligble English, but when she gets on certain programs, she decides to turn on “the ghetto”. To me that’s fake.
@ Teri,
You are SO right about Alicia Keyes turning on the ghetto. I can’t stand how she has 2 different voices/personalities.
Teri and etm: that’s actually a very common linguistic occurrence. People speak differently according to the company they’re in. For instance, I’m from the south. I don’t have much of an accent, but I do have one. When I moved to the upper midwest, I dropped it without meaning to every time I talked to Midwest people (and in fact picked up on some of their pronunciations), and got it back every time I called home to my parents. I then moved to Appalachia. I lost any traces of my Midwest-speak when I started working, and very quickly found myself heightening my own natural accent to make it sound more like the Appalachian speech of those around me. Again, without intending to. Seriously, this is very well known in linguistics. People subconsciously adjust their speech depending on their immediate environment. I don’t have a problem with artists speaking in a more “professional” standard way in interviews or wherever, and then letting loose in a less formal situation.
I agree with Katja and disagree with Teri. It’s only normal to have different ways of speaking with different people. The way I speak to my mom vs. my brothers and sisters vs. my friends vs. my professor when I’m in class is different. So I don’t think Alicia is being phony at all. I’m a longtime Alicia fan and I’ve never noticed her use any kind of overly affected speech. Just my 2 cents.
I keep waiting for a hardcore Sally Field fan to name their child Boniva.
UGHHH why can’t celebrities give their kids normal names? Is it really so hard?
Some people like unique names.
What is a “normal” name? Naming trends shift drastically over time. 200 years ago, the names Jessica, Melissa, Dylan, and Logan would have sounded strange and unusual. Now, they’re so commonplace they seem banal and trite.
Kudos to my gurrrl!
Mashonda 1 – Alicia 1.
Thank God they add Dean to his name geez.
Really? Out of all the names in baby books this is what she comes up with? I wish her and her baby well.
Terrible name. And honestly, if I were to hear the name Egypt, I would think it was a girl.
Awful horrible name! Poor kid. Alicia I thought you had left the ghetto behind you. I have no idea who the baby daddy is but with a name like that’s he’s ghetto.
Umm. Swizz Beatz is the baby daddy. They got married and everything. It’s right there in the article you supposedly read.
fRANK IMMA NEED YOU TO READ BEFORE YOU MAKE COMMENTS, I THINK UR GHETTO FOR WRITIN SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND HOW CAN YOU INSULT A.K.
It’s not a bad name but it is better for a girl.
“Alicia Keys gives birth to baby boy” Who cares?
people do, dumb@ss.
You care. You clicked on the story link
Daoud is David in Arabic…
that’s cool.
Is this like a Posh & Becks thing? their son Brooklyn is named after where he was conceived.
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