Akon

I just kept going to see where life take me.

Got it.

But then I found out that's when I got actually more active in going to Africa with my philanthropy.

Yeah.

The lighting projects and all this other stuff.

Because even me and Mike was talking about creating a music university.

Out there in Africa.

Almost like a Berkeley type of style university, but for Africa.

Because you have the arts, you have... I mean, when you look at rhythm, arts, instruments, all of that shit come from Africa.

We wanted to kind of reinvent the whole wheel, bring it in for history, and also create how we develop that instrumentation and culture for the future.

Like really a musical university that would take Africa into the future.

That'd be kind of wild.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, interestingly enough, in the beginning, it felt tough, though.

Because that was why I actually stopped doing music after I released my album in 2008.

I promoted for about two years.

I did the World Cup in South Africa, and then I stayed in Africa and went straight to Nigeria and started developing what you know now as to be Afrobeat.

But it really was, Afrobeat was more of a political movement started by an artist named Fela.

And he was really big and very influential in Nigeria.

He was like the rebel.