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Akon Commenting on The Smoking Gun Report
posted on May 17, 2008 by
MTV has interviewed Hip hop star Akon about The Smoking Gun's report that blew up his criminal past. The Senegalese singer confessed the report has hurt his reputation. "It's an article," he told MTV on Tuesday, May 13. "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," he continued.
The 35-year-old singer further said, "We're doing so many positive things." "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," he then added.
The Smoking Gun has previously exposed that Akon didn't serve the three plus years behind the bars as he claimed for his role as the "ringleader of a notorious car theft operation". According to the site, the singer only spent five months in the DeKalb county jail, in Georgia, for possession of a single stolen BMW. "He never actually served those three years, so these observations lose a bit of their authoritativeness," the site wrote.
Hip hop superstar Akon has reportedly joined Celtel Uganda in a social responsibility campaign while visiting Uganda. The 35-year-old singer was said to hand over assorted textbooks to the staff and pupils of Nakivuubo Primary School in Kampala at Celtel House on Wampewo Avenue on Friday, May 9. Being excited when they met Akon, the pupils sang the legendary school anthem "We young women and men of Uganda..." for him. They then broke into a humorous poem about examinations. Revealing their excitement, the pupils confessed they were very happy to see their favorite singer. One of the pupils said, "We thank him for giving the books to our school. We shall never forget this day."
Akon has reportedly built an elementary school in Senegal through his foundation called "Konfidence". The school was built to support school going children in achieving an education. On his generosity, Celtel's managing director Yesse Oenga said, "We at Celtel are proud to partner with a multi-platinum star, Akon, in supporting education and the future Uganda's children with scholastic materials that will help to improve on their studies."
Akon is planing his country music career as he has been working undercover as a country act. The Senegalese hip hop singer said that he has planned to follow up collaborations with a series of undisclosed acts by recording an album. He told MTV, "I was trying to shock the world with that. I've been doing some writing and producing for some country artists but I've been going under and alias, so no one knows I'm doing it." Akon then added, "Depending on those records, how well they do, I might just come out with one (album)... I just want to see if I can conquer this side of things."
