,Hitmaker Akon has been dominating the Billboard charts and tearing up the airwaves for two decades. He just celebrated the 20th anniversary of his debut album, Trouble , which launched him to global ...

Akon said the music video for one of Michael Jackson’s songs was a huge inspiration to him. The “Don’t Matter” singer revealed he became very close to Jackson toward the end of the King of Pop’s life.

Things could have been very different for Akon. The five-time Grammy-nominated rapper was born in Missouri but spent most of his childhood in a village in the West African country of Senegal before ...

AKON was honored with the W.E.B. DuBois Freedom & Justice Award (Photo credit: Raquelle “Rocki” Harris for rolling out Akon has been able to include “more of an African influence” in his work because ...

Ten minutes before the start of a benefit concert at Harlem's Apollo Theater, and rapper-singer-songwriter Akon is brawling with his deejay over how to hook a stodgy crowd of Manhattan philanthropists ...

If there is an Illuminati, and if that Illuminati is indeed desegregated, best believe that Akon is the blackest knight at that illicit roundtable. Like Usher, like Jay Z, like Dr. Dre, and recently T ...

In the face of challenging economic times, Akon is sharing tips on maintaining your wealth and opening up about other financially sound decisions he's made. "The worst part about the music industry, ...

Ozuna is nothing if not a generous collaborator. In 2017 alone, he helped re-launch Natti Natasha’s career by joining her on “Criminal” (1.5 billion YouTube views to date), gave go-to producer Chris ...

Becky G and Akon perform at the 2019 MTV, Europe Music Awards (Photo credit: Bang Media) Akon has finally explained why he went on hiatus. The “Lonely” hitmaker went on a three-year hiatus before ...