*Swizz Beatz recently appeared on the “Jennifer Hudson Show” and spoke about parenting, his blended family, and how his son Egypt ended up producing a Kendrick Lamar song at 5 years old.
According to the proud father and husband of Alica Keys, Egypt and Lamar’s bond began at a past Super Bowl game.
“He and Kendrick were talking for, like, 40 minutes,” Swizz recalled, Billboard reports. “I went over and said to Kendrick, ‘Is he bothering you? Should I move him? Are you enjoying yourself?’ He said, ‘No, Swizz, I had writer’s block and what Egypt is telling me is helping me deal with something. I was like, ‘Man, he’s five years old.’ To this day, I still don’t know what he was helping him deal with. I let it happen.”
Egypt ultimately received a producer credit on “untitled 07,” off Lamar’s 2016 “Untitled Unmastered” project.
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Despite this major milestone at a young age, Egypt allegedly has zero plans to follow in his famous parents’ musical footsteps.
“I love music but I don’t really want to be a musician. I want to be a basketball player,” Egypt told Hudson.
Elsewhere in the conversation with Hudson, Swizz recalled a past health scare with spinal meningitis.
“When you come from nothing, and you finally get success, get a piece of what you thought you could never get from your surroundings — we just have a habit of going hard as men, you know, and it caught up to me,” Swizz shared, Yahoo reports “I remember staying up for four days straight just over-pushing it. It messed up my immune system — I had spinal meningitis.”
While recovering at the hospital, a doctor told the artist he might never walk again.
“And I remember going to the hospital, and the doctor was cold. He was cold as ice,” Swizz explained. “As soon as I walked in, he said, ‘okay, you might not die, but you’ll never walk again.’ That was the first thing they said to me when I went into the hospital. But I was in so much pain, I was like, ‘let’s get on to it.’ But, Alhamdulillah [Praise be to Allah], I came back, and I beat the odds with that one. And now, I try to take my health a little bit more serious.”
Watch the Swizz Beatz and Egypt interview below.
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