Akon Admits He Used To Pretend He Was An ‘African Prince’

 Akon Admits He Used To Pretend He Was An 'African Prince'

Like many other musicians, Akon had to earn his way up, but occasionally, people have to fake it until they make it.

And in a recent episode of Drink Champs, which was released on Saturday (July 15), that is precisely what the “Locked Up” hitmaker admits to doing.

Akon admitted in the interview that he made up his history in order to feel better about the way things were going in his life. Akon was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but spent a sizable portion of his youth in Senegal, the country of his father.

It made me feel better, so I used the justification that I was a survivor,” he admitted. “However, I had no way to survive. due to the fact that my parents are genuinely very affluent. In New Jersey, I was residing. Just my older brother and I shared a three-story home. I now realize that we were simply extremely bored.

I think a lot of my decisions were motivated by a desire to fit in, he continued. Therefore, that is how I became caught up in everything, including cars. mainly because I felt special around vehicles. I pretended to be an African royal because I was young, could operate the fanciest automobiles, and could drive.

The founder of Konvict Muzik also acknowledged that Coming to America, a 1988 Eddie Murphy film about an African man who visits America in search of a wife, served as the inspiration for his royal ploy.

He laughed, saying, “After coming to America, I was like, ‘Shiiiit!'” “That’s what sparked it,” she said.

Akon has already acknowledged that he has played the role of an African prince. He provided the same account to MTV in 2010 for their program, When I Was 17.

The “Smack That” rapper acknowledged to lying about his history for the first time in his episode, which also starred Donald Glover and Kerry Washington.

I believe I was a young hustler back then. Omar, his brother, acknowledged that “people just didn’t know any better so they believed that we were princes from Africa,” and he added, “I told everybody, ‘I’m a prince!'”

Akon’s love for Africa is profound, despite the fact that he made up his regal lineage. In 2014, the 50-year-old started the initiative Akon Lighting Africa, which offers solar electricity in more than a dozen African nations, including Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Senegal.

The musician/philanthropist gained notoriety earlier this year when he declared that he is on a mission to convince African-Americans to return to Africa so that it may become the strongest nation in the world.

“My objective is to convince everyone to return to Africa. That’s my aim, he declared on the Deposit$ podcast by REVOLT. “I want to send as many African-Americans back to Africa as I can because I know that everything they are fighting for in America will no longer be necessary when they return.

“They gon’ come there with this mindset, with this mentality, with the finances they built, the equity in life, and bring it back and invest that in Africa?” was the question.

Man, if y’all went home, Africa might be the strongest country in the entire globe, he said. We possess all the necessary qualities to be that. We have the population, the resources, and the land. Together, we have the power and the expertise. Why aren’t we doing that, for example?

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