Akon
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And they're like, well, reggae's not really popping right now.
I'm like, it's not reggae.
It's not reggae.
It was bigger in Europe before it came to the States.
Yeah, but that's what made me go to London.
Then when I went to London, it broke in London because London was more open-minded.
Well, it's also a huge African community there.
So London was where it actually broke.
And we was able to break P-Square first, which was a twin group, two twins.
And we had a record called Chop My Money that went fucking ridiculous.
It ended up charting in the U.S.
charts.
But it charted in the U.K.
charts first.
You know what I mean?
But at that time, those guys were like, they were performers.
Imagine if you had two ushers and they were twins.
That's what they were, but in the Afrobeat market.
Like when you see their performance, it was nuts.
That's how they actually got them.