Mashonda#Discography

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Mashonda

| image = MashondaTifrere2018.png

| caption = Dean in 2018

| birth_name = Mashonda Karima Tifrere{{cite web|url=http://www.perfectpeople.net/celebrity-star/2631/mashonda.htm |title=Mashonda » Biography, Pictures, Forum, Videos, News, Photos |publisher=Perfectpeople.net |access-date=2011-05-07}}

| alias =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1978|1|09}}

| birth_place =

| origin = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

| genre = R&B

| occupation = Singer

| years_active = 1998–present

| label = {{flat list|

J
Full Surface}}

{{Infobox person

| child = yes

| children = 1

}}}}

Mashonda Karima Dean (née Tifrere; born January 9, 1978) is an American R&B singer from Boston, Massachusetts. In 2004, she married record producer Swizz Beatz and signed with his record label Full Surface Records, an imprint of J Records to release her debut studio album, January Joy (2005). In 2011, Dean joined the first season of VH1's reality show Love & Hip Hop: New York.{{cite web|url=http://hiphop-n-more.com/2011/02/vh1-love-hip-hop-trailer/|title=Vh1: Love & Hip Hop (Trailer)|work=Hip Hop N More|date=February 11, 2011|access-date=July 30, 2018}}

Musical career

In 1998, Mashonda signed a publishing deal with Warner Chapel Music. She subsequently wrote for singer Monifah and worked with Full Force. The following year, she signed a recording contract with Columbia Records.{{cite web|url=http://www.vibe.com/content/didnt-cha-know-5-hit-records-mashonda-wrote |title=Didnt Cha Know 5 Hit Records Mashonda Wrote |publisher=Vibe.com |access-date=2011-05-07}}

In 1999, she was featured on American rapper Jay-Z's single "Girl's Best Friend", for the soundtrack to the film Blue Streak. The song, produced by Swizz Beatz, was also included as a hidden track on Jay-Z's fourth studio album Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter (1999). Mashonda's vocals also featured on American rapper Eve's song "Gotta Man", produced by Beatz, from her debut studio album Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady (1999).{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} Mashonda went on to make guest appearances on American rapper Cassidy's "Get No Better", produced by Beatz, from his album Split Personality (2004),{{cite web|url=http://www.vibe.com/content/cassidys-get-no-better |title=Cassidy's "Get No Better" |work=VIBE |date=2010-07-13 |access-date=2011-05-07}} American rapper Fat Joe's Beatz-produced song "Listen Baby", from his 2005 album All or Nothing and guest appeared on Triple Seis' debut studio album Only Time'll Tell, featuring on the song "Skully".{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}

Mashonda's debut album January Joy, produced by Beatz, Kanye West, and Raphael Saadiq, was released in November 2005 in Japan. The album was supported by two singles, co-written by Beatz: "Back of da Club", featuring Beatz, and "Blackout" featuring Snoop Dogg.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} In March 2009, she released a mixtape titled The Renovation Series.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}. Mashonda took time off from her music career to raise her son.

Other ventures

Mashonda was the author of a column, "Pandora's Box", on Vibe Vixen.{{cite web |url=http://www.vibevixen.com/author/mashonda/ |title=VIBE Vixen |access-date=2012-06-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111229182949/http://www.vibevixen.com/author/mashonda/ |archive-date=December 29, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}

Mashonda authored a book on co-parenting, titled Blend: The Secret to Co-Parenting and Creating a Balanced Family (2018), with contributions from co-parents Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys.{{cite web|url=http://people.com/babies/mashonda-tifrere-alicia-keys-swizz-beatz-co-parenting-book-blend/|title=Swizz Beatz's Ex Mashonda Tifrere Opens Up About Co-Parenting with Her Ex and His Wife Alicia Keys|work=People|date=May 17, 2018|access-date=July 30, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://people.com/music/alicia-keys-mashonda-tifrere-blended-family-friendship/|title=Inside Alicia Keys and Mashonda Tifrere's Blended Family Friendship: 'We Have Girl Talk'|work=People|date=October 4, 2018|access-date=October 5, 2018}}

Personal life

Mashonda began dating the record producer Kasseem Dean, known as Swizz Beatz, in 1998. She became pregnant, but suffered a miscarriage in 2000. She was the stepmother to Dean's son from a previous relationship, Prince Nasir;{{Cite web|url= https://people.com/all-about-swizz-beatz-alicia-keys-kids-7501932|title=Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys' Kids: All About Their Blended Family|date=October 16, 2023|magazine=People}} he was born during her pregnancy and she named him. Mashonda and Dean married in 2004. Their son, Kasseem Dean, Jr., was born in 2006.{{refn|{{cite web|url=http://www.vibe.com/content/vibe-q-mashonda-bares-all-about-past-present-part-1|title=Vibe Magazine Part 1 Mashonda Cover Story Interview |work=Vibe|date=July 13, 2010|access-date=October 18, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vibe.com/content/mashonda-bares-all-part-1-pg-2 |title=Vibe Magazine Part 2 Mashonda Cover Story Interview |work=Vibe. |date=July 13, 2010 |access-date=October 18, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vibe.com/content/mashonda-bares-all-part-1-pg-3 |title=Vibe Magazine Part 3 Mashonda Cover Story Interview |work=Vibe |date=July 13, 2010 |access-date=October 18, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vibe.com/content/mashonda-bares-all-part-1-pg-4 |title=Vibe Magazine Part 4 Mashonda Cover Story Interview |work=Vibe|date=July 13, 2010 |access-date=October 18, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vibe.com/content/mashonda-bares-all-part-ii-those-tweets-reaching-resilience-and-her-darkest-secret|title=Vibe Magazine Part 5 Mashonda Cover Story Interview |work=Vibe|date=July 14, 2010 |access-date=October 18, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vibe.com/content/mashonda-bares-all-part-ii-pg-2 |title=Vibe Magazine Part 6 Mashonda Cover Story Interview |work=Vibe|date=July 14, 2010 |access-date=October 18, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vibe.com/content/mashonda-bares-all-part-ii-pg-3 |title=Vibe Magazine Part 7 Mashonda Cover Story Interview |work=Vibe|date=July 14, 2010 |access-date=October 18, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vibe.com/content/mashonda-bares-all-part-ii-pg-4 |title=Vibe Magazine Part 8 Mashonda Cover Story Interview |work=Vibe|date=July 14, 2010 |access-date=October 18, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vibe.com/content/mashonda-bares-all-part-ii-pg-5 |title=Vibe Magazine Part 9 Mashonda Cover Story Interview |work=Vibe|date=July 14, 2010 |access-date=October 18, 2011}}}} In 2008, the couple announced their break up. According to Dean, they had already been separated for nine or ten months by June of that year. The divorce was finalized in May 2010, with the couple citing irreconcilable differences.{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1589419/swizz-beatz-addresses-alicia-keys-rumors-reveals-michael-jackson-tour-deal/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140613021341/http://www.mtv.com/news/1589419/swizz-beatz-addresses-alicia-keys-rumors-reveals-michael-jackson-tour-deal/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 13, 2014|title=Swizz Beatz addresses Alicia Keys Rumors, Reveals Michael Jackson Tour Deal|work=MTV|date=June 16, 2018|access-date=August 2, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/05/18/2010-05-18_swizz_missed_payments_sez_ex.html|title=Mashonda: Swizz Beatz is a deadbeat who owes big money|work=New York Daily News|date=May 18, 2010|access-date=October 18, 2011}}{{cite podcast|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh34VKxIMuU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/hh34VKxIMuU |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Rap Radar Podcast - Swizz Beatz on Alicia Keys relationship|work=Rap Radar|publisher=Play.it |host=Elliott Wilson and Brian "B.Dot" Miller|date=November 26, 2015|access-date=May 25, 2018}}{{cbignore}}

Discography

=Studio albums=

January Joy (2005)
Note To Self (2022)

=Mixtapes=

The Renovation Series (2009)
Love, Mashonda (2012)

=Singles=

;As lead artist

2005: Back Of Da Club
2006: Black Out (feat. Snoop Dogg)
2006: Used To (Promo Only)
2009: Dirty Laundry (feat. Eve)
2009: No Panties (Buzz Single)
2011: Intrigued (Buzz Single)
2011: Juicy Fruit
2012: Touch Me
2012: Mystery (feat. Lil Mo)
2020: King
2021: Honey, I See You
2022: Forbidden Fruit
2022: Positive Distraction
2022: Complicated

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" \|+ As featured artist ! scope="col" rowspan="2"\| Title ! scope="col" rowspan="2"\| Year ! scope="col" colspan="2"\| Peak chart positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2"\| Album
scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"\| U.S. ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"\| U.S. R&B
scope="row"\| "Girl's Best Friend" (Jay-Z featuring Mashonda) \|\| 1999 \| 52 \|\| 19 \|\| Blue Streak: The Album and ''Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter
scope="row"\| "Get No Better" (Cassidy featuring Mashonda) \|\| 2003 \| 79 \|\| 51 \|\| Split Personality
colspan="14" style="font-size:90%"\| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or receive certification.

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"

|+ As featured artist

! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Title

! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Year

! scope="col" colspan="2"| Peak chart positions

! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Album

scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| U.S.

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| U.S. R&B

scope="row"| "Girl's Best Friend"
(Jay-Z featuring Mashonda)

|| 1999

| 52 || 19

|| Blue Streak: The Album and ''Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter

scope="row"| "Get No Better"
(Cassidy featuring Mashonda)

|| 2003

| 79 || 51

|| Split Personality

colspan="14" style="font-size:90%"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or receive certification.

=Guest appearances=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" \|+ List of non-single songs with guest appearances by Mashonda ! scope="col" style="width:16em;" \| Title ! scope="col" \| Year ! scope="col" \| Album ! scope="col" \| Other artist(s)
scope="row" \| "Crazy Girl" \| rowspan="4" \| 2001 \|\| Rush Hour 2 (soundtrack) \|\| LL Cool J
scope="row" \| "Kiss Is Spittin'" \|\| Kiss tha Game Goodbye \|\| Jadakiss, Nate Dogg
scope="row" \| "You Could Be Blind" \|\| The Great Depression \|\| DMX
scope="row" \| "Be Me" \|\| Scorpion \|\| Eve
scope="row" \| "S.H.Y.N.E." \| rowspan="4" \| 2002 \| rowspan="2" \| Swizz Beatz Presents G.H.E.T.T.O. Stories \|\| Shyne
scope="row" \| "Ghetto Love" \|\| LL Cool J
scope="row" \| "Wanna Be Like Him" \|\| God's Favorite \|\| N.O.R.E.
scope="row" \| "Party in the Rain" \|\| Eve-Olution \|\| Eve
scope="row" \| "This Is Who I Am" \|\| 2003 \|\| La Bella Mafia \|\| Lil' Kim, Swizz Beatz
scope="row" \| "Skully" \| rowspan="2" \| 2004 \|\| Only Time'll Tell \|\| Triple Seis, 24K
scope="row" \| "S.H.Y.N.E." \|\| Godfather Buried Alive \|\| Shyne
scope="row" \| "So Long" \| rowspan="2" \| 2005 \|\| I'm a Hustla \|\| Cassidy, Raekwon
scope="row" \| "Listen Baby" \|\| All or Nothing \|\| Fat Joe
scope="row" \| "Take a Trip" \|\| 2007 \|\| B.A.R.S. The Barry Adrian Reese Story \|\| Cassidy
scope="row" \| "Luv Me Tomorrow" \|\| 2012 \|\| Black Hero Theme Musik \|\| Omen, Karina Pasian, Amanda Seales, The Force

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"

|+ List of non-single songs with guest appearances by Mashonda

! scope="col" style="width:16em;" | Title

! scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Album

! scope="col" | Other artist(s)

scope="row" | "Crazy Girl"

| rowspan="4" | 2001

|| Rush Hour 2 (soundtrack)

|| LL Cool J

scope="row" | "Kiss Is Spittin'"

|| Kiss tha Game Goodbye