Akon's Shocking Prison Secret Revealed?

Turns out the expose was about akon's fictional criminal past: Akon (aliaune thiam) has. In 2008, multiple sources, including the fbi, revealed that akon was not the criminal he portrayed. The new york times wrote a scathing review that included the contradiction that, though akon. In the intervening years since 2004, it has been revealed that akon exaggerated his criminal history.

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. Uncover the deceit, corruption, and ultimate col. 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,. It would appear that the best thing to ever happen to akon was a prison sentence. Louis, reared in senegal. R&b singer akon s past has been called into question after a website investigated the rappers criminal record. The singer had apparently many times claimed that he was once.