Akon
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yes, I knew.
Like, maybe I would even go so far as to say, like— No, no, like, everybody hit the fact that they was African.
Like, literally, people was embarrassed to be African.
You know what I mean?
I was probably the only one pushing it.
All they was being clowned was, like, African jokes.
It was, like, if you was being zoned on, the African jokes was the most popular.
Put it that way.
So nobody wanted to be African.
And I'm like, yo, this is crazy.
They don't know about this.
Well, because I knew in Africa it was heavily popular, but I knew it just wasn't exposed in America to even get the chance to become popular.
Got it.
Right?
So I just knew that certain elements in it that I knew that made it too local on why it would never leave and become bigger than the continent.
And this is like sonic elements?
Yeah, this is sonic elements.
I'm knowing what the US want to hear.
I'm knowing what Europe want to hear.
Exactly.