Konvict Music?
According to The Smoking Gun our favorite African-multi-platinum-ex-criminal crooner, is a liar and has greatly exaggerated his past life of crime for street cred and record sales. Apparently he’s not the car-stealin’, amphetamine flippin’, prison fightin’, superthug he led us to believe he was.
Akon’s ad nauseum claims about his criminal career and resulting prison time have been, to an overwhelming extent, exaggerated, embellished, or wholly fabricated, an investigation by The Smoking Gun has revealed. Police, court, and corrections records reveal that the entertainer has created a fictionalized backstory that serves as the narrative anchor for his recorded tales of isolation, violence, woe, and regret. Akon has overdubbed his biography with the kind of grit and menace that he apparently believes music consumers desire from their hip-hop stars.
While the performer’s rap sheet does include a half-dozen arrests, Akon has only been convicted of one felony, for gun possession. That 1998 New Jersey case ended with a guilty plea, for which the singer was sentenced to three years probation. Another 1998 bust, this one in suburban Atlanta, has been seized upon by Akon and transformed into the big case that purportedly sent him to prison (thanks to his snitching cohorts) for three fight-filled years. In reality, Akon was arrested for possession of a single stolen BMW and held in the DeKalb County jail for several months before prosecutors dropped all charges against him.
Damn, what part of the game is that? Like what kind of world do we live in when we can’t trust a Konvict to keep it real? But seriously, it says something about our own skewed view of reality when an artist would feel the need to embellish tales of his criminal past to increase his marketability. If this is all true the joke is on us in more ways than one.
Read the full article here. Props to Brown-Skinned Jesus
fuck akon.
YALL IDIOTZ GOTTA REMEMBER RAP IZ REAL AND ART IMITATIN LIFE ITZ JUST STILL ENTERTAINMENT NO MO NO LESS FUCKERZ!AT THE END OF THE DAY WHOZ REALLY REAL EVERYBODY FAKEZ A LIL GAMEZ A LIL MAKEZ MISTAKEZ A LIL.AYE IMMA SHOW YOU HOW REAL THE WORLD OF HIP HOP FANZ CLANZ AND B.A.N.S. ETC. ETC. ETC. AINT.OKAY LOOK AT THIZ HERE?WE HAVE ALL THE BULLSHYT SONGZ IN THE RAP SCENE GETTIN SPINZ N RINGTONE GWOP NONSTOP AND WE GOT POLITICAL RAPPERZ THAT ARE TIGHT BUT, GOIN UNHEARD AND BLACKZ N WHITEZ N LATINOZ N EVERYOTHER MA FUCKER IN HIP HOP PERFORMING OR LISTENING IS BEING PUT TO SLEEP.WE GOT GLOBAL ISSUES AND HOMEFRONT ISSUES THAT RAPPERZ COULD USE THE POWER OF SPEECH ON .BUT, THE REAL EMCEEZ N RAPPERZ ARE OVERSHADOWED BY FAKENESS AND PEOPLE THAT SUPPORT FAKE SHYT..SO ASK YO’SELF?IF YOU ARE REAL THEN YOU FEEL ME IF NOT YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE….P.E.A.C.E. TIME TO BUILD AND DESTROY 4 REALZ!
man i though i was a hater but damn get dat man balls let akon creat the life he never had even if he is lying shit yall didn’t say nothin a bout 2pac for lying./
best ta b fo real
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fuck akon
FUC EM’!
it bothered me to see dudes comment in all caps lock, so i didnt read anything he said…but i caught that part at the end where he said “its time to build and destroy”
i think you meant to say…its time to DESTROY AND REBUILD….lol
“Lying in your rhymes is worst than lying on your dick” Sticky fingaz
WE SHOULD ALL BE USE TO RAPPERS,SINGERS, AND EVEN ACTORS LIE ABOUT THEIR PAST. ITS REALLY NOT SUPRISE TO ME. THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS NEVER SEEM TO SHOCK ME. WELL, AKON STILL MAKES HITS AT THE END OF THE DAY.
fuck youuuu no fuck akon
i love akon
Music should be a way of expression. Fabricating in your lyrics is trickery. This are the examples of young and ignorant folloing the lifestyle on there CD, when the rapper on Cd aint doin it themselve! Fake niggarz need to relax. South London stand up.