Author Topic: Akon: "Lady Gaga has pretty much retired me" (Read 656 times)

G-Bee · « **Reply #15 on:** August 19, 2010, 04:38:57 AM »

Quote from: rayallen0 on August 18, 2010, 03:48:28 PM

i hope like hell he actually retires...hes fucking terrible

This, plus I find it kinda weird that she get's dropped first, and then all of a sudden she's got all the marketing in the world behind her. You don't just get that for nothing, if you know what I mean...

Dre-Day · « **Reply #16 on:** August 19, 2010, 10:24:22 AM »

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"You've got some straight hardcore hip-hop guys actually moving into the dance realm," Akon said. "And that's shocking. When you've got someone like Dr. Dre about to do a dance record ... that's crazy."

Akon wouldn't comment further on the Dr. Dre effort, except to say: "it actually sounds great. He played it for me. I was shocked. So I was like 'Wow, that's dope. When the world hears this, they might go crazy.' ... When you've got the two worlds mixed together, clashing, it's going to be a monster."

more like, cover your ears

Jimmy H. · « **Reply #17 on:** August 19, 2010, 09:40:03 PM »

Quote from: Infinite- Free In An Unfree World on August 18, 2010, 01:32:13 PM

Damn.. I never knew it was Akon who signed Gaga. That's great. No wonder he's able to afford a mining business in South Africa. Props to Akon, and I hope other Senegalese artists like Viviane Ndour also can make it big one day, because that country has a great music scene.

Yeah, it was news to me too. I remember looking at that Forbes list a few days ago and thinking "how the fuck is Akon in the top 3"? Now, it makes sense.

C-BLUE · « **Reply #18 on:** August 19, 2010, 11:11:26 PM »

I'm a say Akon is a muthafuccin genius for signing that woman.

theremedy360 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 20, 2010, 12:24:37 AM »

Akon's solo shit is pretty bad, but he has a nice chorus every now and then.

Jimmy H. · « **Reply #20 on:** August 20, 2010, 01:06:48 AM »

I actually enjoy Akon's music. I think people have made it seem cool to be haters about everything, these days. Pretty much nobody will be happy unless every artist that's had a platinum or better album in the last 8 years, that isn't Game, is officially declared a fucking asshole.