Akon Responds To His Fake Konvict Past
Some months ago The Smoking Gun published a report about Akon, claiming he fabricated his past of jail. Now he addresses those claims with an interview on MTV. Here is what he said:
It’s an article. 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. 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.”
At the end of the day: who cares? Just drop hot music and it’s ok. A clip of the interview after the jump.
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