
Akon: The Truth About My Multiple Wives & The Real Cost of Fame
From We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson
Published 5/19/2026

From We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson
Published 5/19/2026
Akon reflects on the life behind some of the biggest songs of the 2000s, and the choices, controversies and turning points that shaped him long before global fame. He opens up about growing up between Senegal and the US, the criminal world he entered before music, and the prison sentence that he…