Akon Talks About Smoking Gun Report That He Fabricated His Criminal Past
Little more than a month ago, The Smoking Gun published an article claiming Akon manufactured most of his past as the ringleader of a "notorious" car-theft ring and that he didn't spend four and a half years in prison, as he's claimed. Instead, the Web site reported, Akon spent only a few months in an Atlanta jail for stealing a single car, according to police, court and corrections records.
The story raised some serious doubts about the stories Akon has been repeating in interviews for years and about his background as a hard-hitting thug who once owned and operated four chop shops that catered to "celebrities and drug dealers." But did Akon spend years in prison, fighting off other inmates on an almost-daily basis, as he's claimed over and over again?
On Tuesday, MTV News sat down with Akon to discuss The Smoking Gun's report. And while he didn't come right out and debunk the article or corroborate his accounts of a criminal past, he said he believes the claims have done little to hurt his rep.
"It's an article," he said. "Everyone's entitled to their own opinions and views. At the end of the day, the Konvict movement is keeping me out of jail. It's nothing I want to glorify or go back to. Honestly, I'm glad something like that came out, because it opens the minds of other people who're thinking positive.
"We're doing so many positive things," 'Kon continued. "To go back and focus and put energy on negative things like that, to try to discredit an artist, it makes no sense to me. If there was a motive for it, it would be worth entertaining. I'd rather keep it the way it is and leave the article out there. It only helps me. It's not something I was trying to glorify or turn back to. It was something I was trying to forget. Actually, it worked out for me in a positive way."
Akon is still working on Acquitted, the follow-up to 2006's Konvicted. The album was originally slated for release this month, but those plans have been scrapped.
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Comment by Chel Slade on May 16, 2008 at 5:38pm - damn aint no such thing as street cred anymore when it come to the rap game all yall must be jst like Akon frontin to the youth so u could sell a record............ Yall should all get lynhed
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Comment by jamison on May 16, 2008 at 5:32pm - who cares if hes bout it bout it dont matter if he grew up bein a ritch goody good kid he makes good music
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Comment by hip hop on May 16, 2008 at 5:31pm - Fuck Akon everybody knows this nigga aint a thug. Look at him!! Come on now. I read the article and it didn't say anything that the streets didn't know already. The nigga is a singer and thats it. He aint bout it
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Comment by jamison on May 16, 2008 at 5:17pm
- who cares hes a good artist if he wasent good marshall mathers wouldent have done a track with him 80 % of rappers now days at least say sum bowl shit in ther songs so i dont care if its true or not he makes good music
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Comment by Drew on May 16, 2008 at 5:16pm - akon sucks, hes only good on a chorus
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Comment by mikee t on May 16, 2008 at 5:12pm - what a lame im bout to do 6yrs that shit aint nuthin to brag about
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Comment by Mister John on May 16, 2008 at 5:10pm - yea what does akon do lol... i mean really he dont got a voice, and he dont spit a verse, whut does he do for the music game besides get on the hook...him and t pain do the same shit, not true artists
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Comment by Mik-E on May 16, 2008 at 5:06pm - Who Actually Gives A Fuck About Akon, I Mean Really?!?
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