What's up? What's up? What's up?
AD, how are you?
I'm Mrs. Dean.
Mr. Dean right here.
And we wanna invite you into our home, come.
Come into the za za za.
[both laughing]
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[Alicia] - You know the house is very open so we occupy
all the spaces in the home,
but there is something about the circle that feels so good,
especially with the view and the water,
which feels so calming and peaceful.
This is the perfect way to welcome people in,
it's comfortable.
[Swizz Beatz] We wanted something that felt warm,
something that feels like places we
traveled around the world and you know,
with this view, and with these colors uh,
it just locks us into the universe.
My love loves clean lines, he's really about
just the, everything feeling really clean.
It's almost like it doesn't obstruct you as you're
imagining, dreaming, thinking,
and I think that's something we do a lot here.
We do a lot of dreaming.
Virgo
He's definitely a Virgo, but we do a lot of dreaming.
Yes, yes we do.
You know, and so it doesn't get in the way of whatever
we could possibly, you know, imagine.
[Swizz Beatz] Everything was curated,
everything was designed for the space.
One of Wallace Cunningham's best works.
Kids who love Iron Man, they're like,
that's the Iron Man house.
Listen, not only kids,
[Both] Grown-ups.
[both laughing]
I don't plan Tony Stark and them using this
as an example to fight the world.
Exactly, to save the world, right?
We definitely are.
To save the world, you're right.
Right, we're saving the world from here too.
Yeah
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[Alicia] So this is one of the favorite places
in the house.
The house is an open layout
so you can really just experience it as an open space.
But, we love hanging out here.
We love eating here.
Playing games, boy, she's the board game master.
I love games.
Yeah.
We play cards.
We play dice.
We play board games.
And then a lot of times we'll just casually eat
at the counter in the kitchen.
It's really kind of whatever's happening,
if lunch is going on, we'll just gather around the counter
and chill out.
We love to cook.
we love to just have our friends and family over.
There's always music playing.
Always music playing,
in fact, that's how you know he's awake.
If music is playing, he's up.
We love this set, it is so special.
It feels somehow simple, yet very luxurious at the same time
and it has a great amount of seats for entertaining,
and friends and family.
This is a family home.
We have our kids here, our kids have their friends over.
Everything like that, so we definitely feel
like we can still eat on these, which is important.
The dog definitely feels like he can drool on them
because the amount of drool that I'm wiping up,
it's kind of disrespectful.
Aw.
We love you Samba.
I know, he's a big dog, he can't help it.
Big guy.
Okay, off to the family room we go.
Let's go.
[both laughing]
Let's go.
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So we're in the formal dining room,
this is also the family room, that's what I love.
It's a beautiful structure, but it's also quite casual too,
You know?
We mix the spaces together, you know?
The formal dining room is in the family room
so we're watching TV in this room, we're playing loud movies
we're falling asleep on the couch,
we're having holiday dinners,
whatever the case is, this is a beautiful space.
Also, the view is beautiful.
We can open the doors and dine outside as well,
we can play, we can jump in the pool,
it's a very open type of way, open living.
[Swizz Beatz] Super fun room.
We have our amazing Derrick Adams here,
which is occupying the entire wall.
And it's so beautiful because we get to see kind of
the fun of swimming and having a good time.
We know we're right on the water so it fits in too.
It's like a family portrait of our family.
Never really see Black people swimming in pools too much,
so that piece was like real strong for the living room.
So this is a really special room for us.
I think it has a wide spectrum
of art, and life and experience in it.
And it feels really good.
We love that our kids are able to grow up seeing
such dynamic art around them.
Definitely.
We have taste and pieces of, you know, African art
and different pieces all over the world
that are a part of this room.
I love that for it, it just feels like it's
Yeah.
is a mixture of a lot of different cultures.
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We do own the largest collection of Gordon Parks,
and so we're very proud of that.
It's such a special one.
This one spoke to the living room,
it's like, to mix the photography, you know,
and with the furniture, it just felt like the perfect mix
to have in this room.
And I love this Nick Cave,
I actually think my favorite thing
about Nick Cave pieces, just how, it's so shockingly
detailed and all of these amazing buttons detailed
and all of these amazing buttons.
Shout out to Joanna from Jack Shainman
for hooking this up.
Mm, incredible, incredible.
I love technology, right?
So the new B&O TV set is crazy
with the sculptures in the living room.
So the whole house sound is B&O.
They might should pay me now.
Definitely should.
They might should pay us now.
If they didn't,
We spent a lot of money with you guys.
[both laughing]
We're coming for them now.
[Alicia] And then this Jordan Casteel is so special.
[Swizz Beatz] I just love how she's sitting
in this room with us, like.
[Alicia] Yes.
[Swizz Beatz] It's like everybody's in the room with us.
It's also thought provoking and I think we love to do that
with the art.
Yes.
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So we livin' up here.
The bedrooms are up here, the kids rooms are up here.
It's action packed over here.
Action packed,
[Swizz Beatz] Radcliffe Bailey.
I love Radcliffe Bailey.
It's just something about this,
especially with the music notes behind it.
I love how there's like, the work inside the work,
which is really awesome to see.
And then, There's like gold panels.
Spray paint down there,
and like you see the texture of this paint.
It just makes me get, exotic.
Gosh, so special.
Love this one.
Yeah, I guess we call this the library.
We call it the piano room.
Egypt practices piano here, I practice piano here.
We definitely, you know, kind of relax, lounge, read, chill,
you can watch over.
A lot of times,
he's just kind of hanging around here, thinking.
But it's about keeping the warm colors,
because, you know, this house is the Iron Man house
so that means that it's kind of industrial in a way,
it can be kind of cold and we wanted to just warm it up
and bring the energies with the rugs
and the different tones that we purposefully picked
to just make it feel like a home and not only a sculpture,
But marry them both together.
So we love that it's a nod
to a lot of different ancient cultures.
That was a point.
One time, we were talking about this mixture between
kind of, you know, the feeling of Bali
and the way that it feel so comfortable and open
and beautiful and also.
Yeah, but it's a mixture of everything.
It is.
Because even like, these ceramics over here,
It's Julia Chiang.
[Alicia] They're beautiful.
[Swizz Beatz] Yeah, it's super strong.
[Alicia] Beautiful.
And even this amazing book on the lula.
Everything, I mean it's the Gordon Parks sets,
the Henry Taylor books, just a mixture of everything.
You know, some vintage books up there as well.
[Alicia] If I'm playing, some times people will hang out.
If I'm practicing with Egypt, you know,
his brother will be here, chilling.
I get free concerts, every.
Right.
I'm tellin' you, my season ticket pass is unbelievable.
[both laughing]
I get, you know, Egypt opens up, she's the headliner,
I just sit right here and just be kickin' it.
I'm tellin' you, it's the best show on Earth.
It's good.
This piano is a very important piano actually.
This piano is my very first piano, ever.
So my son gets to play on my first piano.
Special.
And when I first was,
you know, signed to Columbia Records,
this was the piano that they gave me,
and at the time, I thought that, I mean it might as well
have been 20 million dollars.
I felt so excited.
I didn't have anything that looked like this ever before.
I've always kept it, it's always been with us.
And now that Egypt plays on this piano, it's pretty amazing.
So this is special.
I'm not gonna lie, I used to diss this piano,
because I'm like babe, they got pianos now.
You know, we can do something custom,
we can do something amazing.
Then when she told me the story, I had to be like.
It's special.
Keep it special.
Like, 16 years old. That's from when he was a kid,
we had to put the stickers on the notes
so that he can remember where to play stuff, so.
[piano playing]
Now.
[piano playing]
Can't play without the petal.
[piano playing]
[laughing]
Tryna tell you, that's that front row seat right there.
Yes, it is, concert.
That was good.
Thanks.
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[Alicia] Cheers.
Cheers.
Thanks for coming through, AD.
AD.
We love having you, but you gotta go home.
I mean, they probably don't wanna go home,
but this time.
You can come back again.
We'll see you next time.
Za za za.
[both laughing]
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