Akon
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Podcast Appearances
And they were selling more than singles.
That's... Yeah.
They were selling more than singles.
Yeah, so when I realized, okay...
Well, first of all, I was trying to find a solution because I wasn't getting enough radio play.
Like the way my music was, it was hard to put a genre to it.
Like it wasn't quite rap.
It wasn't quite R&B.
It wasn't quite reggae.
It was like, what is it?
Is this before Locked Up or after Locked Up?
This was during Locked Up.
Like Locked Up itself, what made Locked Up actually pop was the fact that we was able to get Styles P on there.
So Styles P made it.
a genre, it became hip-hop.
Yeah.
That's why until this day... It framed it in the eyes of the consumer.
Exactly.
Because before Styles was on it, we was working the record a whole year and couldn't get it to stick nowhere.
Get out of here.