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AP - Music producer and rapper Swizz Beatz has been named the first producer-in-residence at NYU's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at the Tisch School of the Arts.

AP - It's a boy for Alicia Keys and her husband, music producer/rapper Swizz Beatz.

Kanye West’s series of weekly digital singles (G.O.O.D. Fridays) was slightly late last week, with “Lord Lord Lord” appearing Saturday morning. It’s another easygoing track featuring former Gap Band singer Charlie Wilson alongside West, Mos Def, Raekwon, and Swizz Beatz. Listen below, and go to kanyewest....