Did Akon ever explain why did he even feel the need to lie about having been locked up for years

[Yehuda]

Guess he watched New Jersey Drive and took that shyt to heart cause this fool had a whole story about running the yard and possibly getting hit with football numbers after leading a car-theft ring, how does an R&B singer even come up with this kind of gimmick

Although he claims to have spent more than four years in prison and says his crimes include leading an extensive car-theft ring, the only felony conviction among his six arrests was for gun possession, for which he received three years’ probation, The Smoking Gun reported. And while Akon, who titled his second album “Konvicted,” was arrested in 1998 for possession of a stolen BMW and was held for several months in jail, all charges were dropped, and he was released

Akon's Rap Sheet Is Revealed

As recounted in scores of interviews since his first album, the platinum-selling "Trouble," debuted in 2004, Akon was incarcerated for a total of four-and-a-half years, including a long stretch for his role as the "ringleader of a notorious car theft operation." Akon's gang specialized in boosting Porsches, Lamborghinis, and Mercedeses, he owned four chop shops catering to "celebrities and drug dealers," and he frequently escaped from cops in high-speed pursuits. His criminal empire collapsed, though, after underlings--who "felt like they deserved more than they were getting"--cut deals and ratted him out to law enforcement. As a result of that betrayal, Akon spent the next three years in a Georgia prison. While inside, the 150-pound inmate "fought almost every day for two years," in the process becoming a "champion" who prevailed over both big and small inmates because, "I knew where to hit you to knock you out, so I didn't fear you."

When not brutally schooling fellow convicts, Akon was writing songs, including "Locked Up," his autobiographical account of prison desolation, from dwindling commissary accounts to friends and family that no longer visited or accepted collect calls. The song, he recalled, "was like an anthem in there" and corrections officers would often ask him to sing its chorus ("I'm locked up/They won't let me out"). After his release in 2002, Akon recorded "Locked Up," adding to the song what would become his audio trademark: the clanging sound of a cell door closing. The single later became a hit, but did little to erase the memories of his time on lockdown, which "felt like 300 years, not three." (...)

As it turns out, however, "Kontrived" might have been a more accurate choice. (...)

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.

So there was no conviction. There was no prison term between 1999 and 2002. And he was never "facing 75 years," as the singer claimed in one videotaped interview. (...)

Either way, the felony case against Akon was dropped in its entirety in late-April 1999. He spent five months in jail before prosecutors decided not to make a grand jury presentment. The singer was immediately sprung from the DeKalb jail, departing at 1:27 on a Wednesday morning, according to county records. Somehow, in the intervening years, those few months in custody morphed into three years in prison, the majority of Akon's purported total of four-and-a-half years behind bars.

Akon's Con Job

 

[tuckgod]

"Peace to my African brothers" is all I have to say on this matter.

 

[Kal-El]

Let my guess..... You actually believed Jay when he said he lost 92 bricks?

Or when Game said he woke up from a coma I'm 2001, same time Dre dropped 2001?

Or when Ross said he knows the real Noriega and that he owes him a 100 favors?

Or when Daz said he yanked up Simon for his money?

 

[Yehuda]

Let my guess..... You actually believed Jay when he said he lost 92 bricks?

Or when Game said he woke up from a coma I'm 2001, same time Dre dropped 2001?

Or when Ross said he knows the real Noriega and that he owes him a 100 favors?

Or when Daz said he yanked up Simon for his money?

Rap lines that got nothing to do with the topic and even then

Jay-Z's persona isn't based on losing 92 bricks and neither is Doja's based on waking up from a coma

Rozay actually owned up to being a C.O. after getting exposed

 

[Osmar]

Rappers lie and embellish about crimes, but this lie is way too specific and not some generic “I was in the streets ….”.

It’s not like he was choir boy given his arrests either, but to say you spent 4 1/2 years in prison when you didn’t

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

.......................

 

[Rekkapryde]

lol at believing any of these clown's

 

[tuckgod]

Let my guess..... You actually believed Jay when he said he lost 92 bricks?

Or when Game said he woke up from a coma I'm 2001, same time Dre dropped 2001?

Or when Ross said he knows the real Noriega and that he owes him a 100 favors?

Or when Daz said he yanked up Simon for his money?

Nah

 

[tuckgod]

Rappers lie and embellish about crimes, but this lie is way too specific and not some generic “I was in the streets ….”.

It’s not like he was choir boy given his arrests either, but to say you spent 4 1/2 years in prison when you didn’t

 

[Chip Skylark]

I thought dude really was locked up

 

[Rivoli]

Yeah he explained it in an interview he did with VLad a little while back..

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

is it fukk wit akon day?

Yes and everybody's celebrating

 

[getmoney310cpt]

Those 90s and early 2000s rappers really benefited off the fact that the internet wasn’t as widespread and potent back then..now with social media and an extensive internet that we all know how to use its hard to lie about your past and become a star off the lies as someone out there knows the truth and can easily expose with the net now where as back then they would have to have the right person here them out and spread the story