Akon is officially copping to using his brothers to stand in for him on stage at the height of his ascension in music … and laughing about it now, due to the fact he never got caught!!!
TMZ Hip Hop met up with the real Akon walking into DASH Radio, and he told us the underlying reason for pulling those switcheroos back in the day was not wanting to disappoint all the fans worldwide. Put simply, he says he couldn’t be in more than one place, and some days he needed to be.
All of this predated social media, and Akon says he was still fairly new on the scene — shortly after his hit single “Locked Up” — and raging fans couldn’t tell the difference. Remember, he and his brothers are not triplets!
This wouldn’t work today, seeing as how his brother Bu Thiam‘s become a big-time exec in the music industry.
As for his brother Omar, Akon says he would go rogue and do shows on his own, and never offered up a cut of his pay.
Neither brother has the ability to sing and Akon says the DJ gave them the royal Milli Vanilli treatment by pushing play on his songs so they could lip sync!!! 😂
Akon is more tycoon than musician these days … but fans will easily remember when he was hot as fish grease … dropping platinum singles left and right, and collaborating with the likes of Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Styles P.
He says fans who realize they were duped in retrospect have a consolation prize … they can turn the sham tickets into an NFT!!!
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