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On Saturday, July 31, 2010, a black woman went on her computer and saw something that quite possibly made her scream, cry, and/or punch a hole in the wall. It was something that she knew would eventually happen, but didn’t want to give the universe the satisfaction that she had been defeated. Mashonda Tifrere saw a picture that spoke way more than a thousand words.

The man on the right was Kaseem Dean, better known as Swizz Beatz. He was the man she had been with for over 10 years. Her former husband. The father of her son. The man who had looked so happy posing just a few years ago for this picture.He was also the man that had cheated on her. The man that had gotten not one, but two other women pregnant while he was still married. The man that had said that he was unhappy for a decade while he was with her.

But then there’s the woman in the first picture. Alicia Keys. A woman whose music could have very well helped Mashonda through these tough times. What woman wouldn’t feel empowered listening to a song entitled “Superwoman”? However, Mashonda’s circumstances were and are different, so it doesn’t seem like she’ll be bumping “Karma” on the way to pick up her son from pre-k.

The Swizz Beatz-Mashonda divorce was long, messy, and very public. The world first got wind of the Swizzlicia relationship in mid-late 2008 when she threw him a birthday party at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, because her man sure does love art. At this time, it was public knowledge that Swizzy and Mashonda were splitting up, but interest heightened IMMENSELY when it was found out that Alicia Keys was the “other woman”. We didn’t know how long they were creeping around for, however, until Mashonda did a radio interview and stated that Swizz cheated on her with Alicia shortly after their son Kaseem Jr. was born in January of 2007.

Swizz and Alicia eventually made their relationship public in May 2009, propelled by Swizz’s verse on a remix of Best I Ever Had:

“Wake up in the morning and my baby cooked me breakfast

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