Swizz Beatz's 5-year-old son made a beat on Kendrick Lamar's new album

REGULAR 5-YEAR-OLD STUFF.
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Yohana Desta
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There's a 5-year-old out there with a better music resume than you.

Egypt Dean, the son of Grammy-winning artists Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, made one of the beats on Kendrick Lamar's new surprise album, untitled, unmastered


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Proud dad Swizz posted two Instagram videos of lil' Egypt playing part of the beat for "untitled 07" on the album. Watch the mini beatmaker in action below.  



Swizz basically foreshadowed this, previously posting a video of Egypt hanging out with Lamar, Jay Z and Usher at the Super Bowl, with the caption, "Egypt holding court selling Beatz to Kendrick." You know, regular 5-year-old stuff.

Egypt holding court selling Beatz to Kendrick ✌🏽️✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽😎😎😎#superbowl50

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This kindergartener is living his best life. 

It was right in front of our faces....Props to Egypt 🙌

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Yohana Desta

Yohana Desta was the senior film reporter for Mashable. She is a Northern Virginia native and an American University grad. She enjoys carefully curating her Instagram account and can often be found reading books, going to concerts, watching movies and learning way too much about pop culture.

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