Their 12-year-old son Egypt appeared with his father on The Jennifer Hudson Show. The preteen was briefly asked about his thoughts on being a musician like his music-industry titan parents: 15-time Grammy winner Alicia Keys, 44, and producer father Swizz Beats, 42.

“Well, I love music, but I don’t really want to be a musician. I want to be a basketball player,” Egypt shared. 

“He’s honest,” Swizz added.

“It’s fun because I like playing stuff, so when I hear it, and I’m like, ‘Oh, I want to play something,’ then boom, it’s on the piano,” Egypt added of his musical lobby.

At the onset of the conversation, Beatz lauded himself for being able to blend his family as he came to terms with the fact that it was “not an easy process” in the beginning. In addition to sharing his son Genesis, 8, and Egypt, which he shares with Keys, he also has a separate village of children: daughter Nicole, 14, with singer Jahna Sebastian, 16-year-old son Kasseem Dean Jr. with ex Mashonda Tifere, and son Prince Nasir, 22, with Nicole Levy.

“We live, and we learn. And what we learn is the kids didn’t ask to be here,” he shared. “Sometimes we gotta take ourselves out of it and make it about the union of the kids and the community because that’s what’s gonna pass on the legacy.”

“We can be stuck on our own personal things for a long time, but when we grow up, and you ask a person, ‘Why do you do this for?’ Naturally, people are gonna say, ‘I do this for my kids,'” he continued.

Beatz also shared a wholesome anecdote about how 5-year-old Egypt met and inspired rapper Kendrick Lamar at the Super Bowl that year.

“I looked, and him and Kendrick were talking for like 40 minutes, so I went over and said to Kendrick, ‘Is he bothering you? Should I move him? I know you’re enjoying yourself,’ and he said, ‘No Swizz, I had writer’s block, and what Egypt is telling me is helping me deal with something,’” he recalled.

Beatz was in awe at the moment.

“Still, to this day, I don’t know what he was helping him deal with; I let it happen,” he added.