Akon went on to admit that he didn’t expect Em to be such a good producer. “He gave me a folder with, like, 30 tracks in there. And out of 30, I picked five. And I recorded all five, and the one that ...

He may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but Akon is making huge, record-breaking strides on the charts these days. The singer/producer’s latest single “Smack That” rose from No.

Looks like love has run its course for Akon and his now ex-wife Tomeka Thiam. That’s because Thiam was the one who put an end ...

Akon is set to reinvent his iconic pop and R&B hits through a country music lens, sharing his journey and excitement for this ...

It's a busy Monday night at Tufts, and students are filing into Brown and Brew to crack open the books. The study mood was set by a local pop/hip-hop radio station playing a club mix. Nobody was ...

NEW YORK — Senegalese R&B artist Akon enters a second week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 with “I Wanna Love You” featuring Snoop Dogg, but he also becomes the first artist to replace himself at No. 1 on the ...