Akon
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Because there was no genre to put it.
Wow, I thought that's an instant hit.
Before you get it on, what does that mean, working a record?
So that means promoting it.
Going to DJs, going to radio stations, trying to get it played, things like that.
So when we put Styles P on there, it gave it a... Because before then, they didn't know, okay, what do you play it before or what do you play after it?
Like what genre it is.
So it confused people because they just don't think like a good record just can go behind another good record, right?
The first version is just me.
So then when they put a genre to it, then they just made it hip hop.
Like that's why right now to this day, if you notice, I've never rapped a day in my life.
But if you look up Akon, I'm under hip-hop genre.
Because that was the first thing that was ever recorded as, and it stayed that way.
Exactly.
I went through it, yeah.
Because I was like, she's like me.
Like, what genre is she, really?
Yeah.
And then at that time, we were doing 80s music in, like, late 90s.
I mean, early 2000s.