Akon’s Reaction:
“The whole purpose of Konvict Music was to grab ex-convicts, felons,” he said. “People head in that direction and steer them in the opposite direction. Just focus on my past and try to contradict whatever it is I might have said or lived and don’t focus on the positive things I’ve done in society in general. If you have an article, at least balance it out. Let the people know the good things I’ve done, the schools I’ve built. The kids I feed in Africa. Don’t just say, ‘He wasn’t locked up for three years.’ I don’t care if I was locked up for one day. It’s that experience that allowed me to become that person who I am, to make a better society for who is listening.”