1. What does MJ have to do with the thread? MJ can work with whoever he wants to work with. I mean, MJ maybe had no clue that Akon was a big time liar. he just judged him as a musician. Hopefully, that is not a lie either.
My second point: I really believed that Akon was in jail for three years for grand theft auto. It now all seems to be a lie. What I cannot understand is why lie on something like that? I mean, he is technically a felon, but he could have told people that he stayed in jail for a few months. To lie to the public is not right. There is not point of doing that.
As for some people saying it is the business - riiiight and I am a rapper. LOL. Look, a white lie, like Prince playing 27 instruments (I thought that was true) when he really played a few, MJ lying about his age, etc. is not that serious. I mean, it is not like Prince or MJ lost any credibility. Their music speaks for itself. Akon, on the other hand, can't really sing and his talent is there but not as good as other talented people. If he needed street cred to sells records, he could have told the truth and people would have taken it seriously. He should use his talents to sell his music. It is really sad that Akon had to lie to people in order to get street cred. It is pathetic.
Now, someone bought up a interesting point regarding Akon's false image and MJ's false image: two different things. Even though I did mentiuoned that this thread had nothing to do with MJ, I am just going to add Mike in this:
Mike had to fake an image for the sake of being different. I guess he did not want to be like every other R&B/pop singer that sang about love, women, life and the struggle. So, the image came to creation and it work. It seemed like everyone (including me) fell for it. Now, it depends on you if you started to think that maybe MJ's image was more of a pipe dream than the real thing. (One day, I am going to make a thread about this. None of you better not take my idea. LOL.) However, how MJ did it was like this - Mike truly believe in healing the world so he sang about that. I do not see how MJ fake that part up. MJ wanted people to focus on the MUSIC and not his PERSONAL LIFE. That is why the image was created. It was genius and it put money in the bank. With Akon, this guy had the whole world (anyone who cared) thinking that he did the crime, spent three years in jail and decided to sing about his struggle in his music. The issue is that he wanted people to focus on the MUSIC and the PERSONA. He knows that no one would ever think that he would have to lie about his days being in jail and that people would focus on the glolification (sp) of his criminal image and that the fact that he is basically a liar. Also, let me add that not ALL fans still believe in that image that MJ was rocking years ago.
BTW, can anyone answer this for me - we all know that Akon is like 37 years old. (Even though, to me, he looks like he is 21 years old! LOL. He just look youngt o me for some reason.) How many children does he have? I saw a recent picture of him at the KCA (Kids Choice Awards) a few weeks ago and I saw him with all of these children. I was like, "wtf?" LOL. And I heard he is married or have multiple wives. WTF is up with that stuff? Just curious.
I call him something as an habitual flip-flopper.
