18th April 2008

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Lying: It's not just for memoir writers anymore. →

The Smoking Gun takes out the nasally annoying R&B singer Akon for fabricating an entire mythology about spearheading a “notorious” car-theft ring and spending four and a half years in prison. But “there was no conviction. There was no prison term between 1999 and 2002. And he was never ‘facing 75 years,’ as the singer claimed in one videotaped interview.” In another interview with Vibe last year, Akon lends a plausible explanation for the façade: “I’ve always had a way of getting over on people,” he explained, “whether manipulating or conning them.”