Akon the Illusionist

Posted on April 17th, 2008 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Akon, News

Posted by Bossip Staff

Akon

Akon got caught lying to boost his “street cred”:

“In past interviews, the singer has made it clear that he headed ‘a notorious car theft operation’ that specialized in boosting Porsches, Lamborghinis, and Mercedes, owned four chop shops catering to ‘celebrities and drug dealers,’ and had frequent run-ins with the police.

TSG, however, reports the real story behind his allegedly crimes and prison story. In September 1998, Akon was charged with handgun possession and receiving stolen property. He posted $3,500 bond and was free.”

Basically Akon was caught driving a stolen vehicle, but wasn’t charged with grand theft auto. A Federal Agent lays it out:

“‘Ah, this is bullsh**,’ he [said]. ‘This guy is so phony. He’s an arrogant SOB… I don’t think he had any role besides [wanting] to drive a high-dollar vehicle. And I say this because we didn’t link him to any other cars.’”

This simple-ass individual lied about jail time and thought he wasn’t going to be found out? These things always come to the surface eventually.

Click here to read this ridiculousness in its entirety.

  • Harlem Chic

    They all lie! It’s called Hip-Hop and it’s a form of entertainment.

  • Lush-Us Lipps

    2nd!

  • Just Sit and Be Pretty

    I wanted to be first! Anywhoo he is a silly rabbit.

  • PHiLLip

    DaMN aK0n iS LiGHT

  • Vinandi

    H ah ha !!!!!!!

    Co-Sign with Harlem chic- they all lie!!

  • DonkeyPunchJr.

    dame this is sad, who are our kids gonna look up to now? If BET has taught me anything its respect the people who sell drugs and steal cars! dame shame, im throwing away that Akon poster thats hanging over my weed draw next to my semi-automatic shotgun collection.

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  • bree

    LMAO @ Phillip & DonkeyPunch Jr..

    my car is stolen(stolen)..no registration(registration)..cops patrolling(patrolling)..now they done stopped me & i’m getting LOCKED UP!

  • BadNewsBrown

    oh lawd.. these dudes have been making this kind of stuff up for yars.

    if it were me I’d be downplaying that stuff, but the kids want a thug so now you’re gonna embellish? and now you look even sillier than you sound..with ya weird ass voice…

  • K.K

    who cares??the nikka is makin moonnneeyyy anywayz

  • Don’t mind me

    Not good when pretending to be bad makes you better

  • Melissa

    Aaaaannnndddd how old is he? This is pretty damn pathetic!!!! I am embarrassed for him.

  • I’m Just Me

    @ SMOKEY!! HEY!!

    AKON YOU IGNORANT @$$ F*CK…YOU BETTA NEVER GO TO JAIL B/C YOU GET YOUR @$$ BEAT LYING LIKE THAT!!

    SAD, SAD, SAD THAT PEOPLE WANT TO BE GANGSTAS WHEN SO MANY ARE MADE GANGSTAS AND ARE TRYING TO ESCAPE TAHT LIFE!!

    NO WONDER HE IS COMING OUT WITH A COUNTRY WESTERN ALBUM!! THIS NIG AIN’T SHYT EITHER!!!

    YES AKON FOR THIS WE PUT THE BLAME ON YOU!!

  • http://www.myspace.com/shamecatierrajackson ms meca

    HE NEVA LOOKED LIK HE HAD STREET CREDIT ANY WAY…….. AND HE TOO OLD TO BE LYIN BOUT STUFF LIK THAT

  • num1dominicano

    oh well….he’s taking his lying ass straight to the bank too…..

  • $m♥K.E.Y.

    @I’m Just Me

    HELLO MADAME, sorry that other post got me mesmerized at the screen lol

    btw this fool is also BOOGLY looking too!

  • homie

    This cat never came off to me like a street cat. When he first emerged singing that locked up stuff, he just sounded like a singer with a catchy tune. I’m not going to say that most rappers fabricate their lives, but a lot over-exaggerate their lives to seem more street. But the ones to really watch out for are those, who don’t say much and stay the hell humble, because they really know what’s up. Several rappers have been called out in the last year or so about this exact thing. Yo’ boy Plies the Florida rapper claims to always have a gun and claims to be the realest cat ever, well only if he made a song about how his college graduation went, it would probably add some truth to his life. Yo’ boy Young Jeezy claims to be a real weight(drug) pusher, yet he gave up all that and had the time to write rhymes and record albums in the studio and nobody ever got up with this dude, interesting. Not saying these guys are not from the hood and may know cats who actually participates in this nonsense, but to put yourself in these shoes and then boast and brag about it, makes you a lame in my book.

  • Southern Belle 225

    I never did like Akon as an artist and when I found out he had like 5 wives, I was threw with him all together. SMH at these wanna be gangsters!

  • SIDEWAYS

    I always thought dude was a buster with his no signing ass.

  • dabou

    Did anyone actually read the article on thesmokinggun.com? From what I read, He had several run-ins with the law, HE SPENT 4-MONTHS in prison. So, he just exaggerated his past like many other entertainers…Akon by far wasn’t choir boy, he just exaggerated the fact.

  • TISHA

    I’M NOT SURPRISED. HE’S NOT DOING ANYTHING THE REST OF THESE RAPPERS AREN’T DOING….JUST LYING, RAPPING AND SINGING ABOUT THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEND…..I MEAN IF PEOPLE BELIEVED JA-RULE WAS GANGSTA THEY’LL BELIEVE ANYTHING. I HAVEN’T SEEN A HOOD RAPPER(S) SINCE WU-TANG AND THAT’S REAL. JAY-Z’S NOT HOOD NOR WAS TOO MANY OF THOSE OTHER “STUNTING” RAPPERS.

  • Your Momma’s Baby Daddy

    BOY ITS HARD ON A BROTHA THESE DAYS, THE PEOPLE WANT A CRIMINAL MINDED GANGSTER (W/STREET CRED) AND THAT SAD – LADIES PLEASE TELL ME WHATS UP WITH THIS WANTING A THUG MENTALITY ME AND MY CLICK GET APPROCHED ALL THE TIME BY WOMEN SYING THEY WANT A THUG (NOT SURE WHY THEY ASSUME WE ARE THUGS) i ALL WAYS SAY i’LL BE UR THUG FOR THE WEEKEND BUT MONDAY MORNING ITS BACK TO THA JOB (CORPORATE LIKE A MUG…) BUT ITS ALL GOOD i JUST THINK YALL LOWERED THE BAR -

  • http://www.myspace.com/birdshu Bird

    We have all met those people who lie all the damn time just for the sake of lying. Akon is one of those. He was clearly a car thief and that was good enough for his street cred. It was not necessary for him to add in the fictional prison time.

  • Your Momma’s Baby Daddy

    OOOPS SORRY FOR MISSPELLINGS BOSS ON OVER MY SHOULDER…

  • Toni-Danielle STL CHIC

    OK, I am from STL and I’ve been waiting for day someone put him on blast everything about him is a fraud yes his parents is immigrants from Africa but Akon and I went to school together for only 9 years or more…his accent is fake, Chile, dude sounds like Nelly heerre and theere like Chingy and Nelly and the rest of us ST Louisians…I dont think he has a million wives that is another one of his foolish tales…Me, Akon and Nelly all went to school together and not to get anything recently me and one of the Lunatics shared a laughed about this clown and his fake status Dude is from STL and I dont think he even did anything wrong he hung out with the Hoodies but dude is just straight up.. As much love as I have for him and his career…Dudes a clown for this here!!!

  • P

    Let him lie about it. I’m sure the people who want to hear KOVICCCT MUZICCK would be happy to give him more money for a criminal record.

    As black people need to reclaim our music.

  • sxyQblondie

    WHATS MORE PATHETIC? I MEAN COME ONR EALLY THINK ABOUT IT. THE FACT THAT HE LIES LIKE AN IDIOT? OR THE FACT THAT THERE ARE IDIOTS OUT THERE THAT ACTUALLY BELIEVED HIS IDIOTIC LIES? I MEAN LETS KEEP IT REAL, IN ABOUT 1YR IN 1/2, JUST HOW RELEVANT WILL HE REALLY BE? WHO THE HELL REALLY CARES ABOUT CATCHING AKON IN A LIE? COME ON, HE’S JUST NOT THAT IMPORTANT.

  • jason

    @Toni-Danielle STL

    is so ironic that u went to school with this stars and ended up beng a normal person!!LMAOO

  • DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!

    NOT A $URPRI$E…

    THE INDU$TRY I$ FULL OF THE$E PEOPLE WITH FAKE REP’$…

    IT’$ $AD “FAN$” RUN TO THAT CRIMINAL IMAGE FOR COMFORT…

  • dre

    @jason

    lol,u right thou to an extent about the gangstas pretending!!!

  • ATLBlogger

    LOL @ PHiLLip….

    What these rappers do&say just 2 get street cred…SAD, SMDH

  • K-ten

    uugghhhh AKON!!!

  • http://www.myspace.com/SAxlerod SAxlerod

    I still like Akon no matter what. How do all you know that this wasn’t something created by his record company? It’s like Michael Jackson being into girls. Snoop effening all kinds of girls. When he’s married. I could go in for days identifying wholes in Hip hop artists’ stories. He or others in his camp, developed this story and it worked. Giving him street cred. So all of you don’t be mad, he succeeded and played the “f” out of all of us. He got you to listen, your money and your attention. The whole mission was to capture the streets and he did. Now many of you would have listened to AKON (Konvict!) if he was from a prominent family, lived the life in Buckhead (a surburb in ATL and my home) and went to Harvard?

  • jason

    @toni-daneille

    i am sure ur dad suck dicks for a living to keep on callin me a dickrider, or maybe u were actually born out of wedlock.LMAO tell me the artist name and i will be the judge of that b&tch!! LMAOO

  • homie

    Corporate Thug here

  • Dimple Pink

    @ Bree

    how do u get your text to post in bold?

  • killa kal

    I DON’T CARE WHAT ANY1 SAYS….. THATS DABNIS BRICKEY …THE DUDE THAT WAS GONNA MARRY VANNESSA ON THE COSBY SHOW!!!!!!!!!

  • and another one..

    Akon has always looked a lil sweaty/sweet to me… He’s good at those hooks though ain’t , he didn’t just lie he made up a whole damn life, like Eddie Murphy and Kayne/John Legend lying is the only way….

  • Babydol

    I am laughing at all this foolishness! Akon do your thing!! Who cares how long you were in jail. You are milking that cow for all its worth. I am a fan and always will be! Oh by the way it’s my first time on here!!

  • christina

    Street credentials? You know, it used to be where taught our kids NOT to do the things that caused them to go to jail/prison and folks are acting like, uh, having a lengthy rap sheet is prestigious! This dude sucks and Akon is a little jerk with a nasally voice who is highly irritating. It is NOT COOL to act like being a tough guy is the thing to do. I mean, would you want your child to learn that 1. lying is a good thing and 2. that the more arrests one gets, the more worthy he/she is? I can not see the glory of robbing, drug dealing, and the like and spending however much time locked up.

    Folks like that on the street generally do not have millions in the bank to fall back on…

  • szo

    just a wake up call the public or at least the mediate dictates 2 the publi that the highest standard and most respected u can be in the black communities a thug…so now we got bruthas scared to be themselves thinkin they won’t be accepted so they’ll do anything 2 get that coveted thug image….this incident isn’t big in itself but the over all word comes down what do u believe in not what the media wants u 2 believe or politicians(remeber hillary’s lies)what do u believe and how far are u willing 2 go 4 the truth…..

  • srrrrop

    This guy has posted his personal ad to a celebrities dating site called “LovingRich.com“ for several months. I just visited his profile page yesterday. It seems he has logged in recently. OMG, is he looking for a new relationship?..

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    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha can’t see you were are you lol hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

    :L :P :D lol just joking

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