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Eminem is the greatest, ever.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
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Everything is a blessing to me.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Blessing
Me Everything
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In Africa... age is not important over there. They don't care.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Don't Care
Africa
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I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Boards
Moving
Sticks
Board
Stick
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My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Ideas
Studios
Somewhere
Close
Expect
Least
Nearby
Studio
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The Difference Between Dreams & Success Is, Dreams Need Effortless Sleep & Success Needs Sleepless Efforts
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Dream
Differences
Sleep
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When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Hip Hop
People
Talking
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I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Getting Older
Thinking
Want
Older
Insurance
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I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Causes
Next Steps
Watches
Love Movies Me
Cause
Watch
Next Step
Scores
Step
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Two Things that Define SUCCESS In LIFE: - The Way You Manage when You Have Nothing & Way You Behave when You Have Everything
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Success In Life
Two
Way
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I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Dad
Believe
Wife
Afford
African
Wives
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It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Firsts
Priorities
Selling
Business Music Me
Gotta
No Business
Priority
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The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Artist
Mean
Moments
Love Music Where
Love Music Moment
Artists
Right Back
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Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Body
Melody
Nerves
Normal
Projects
Triggers
Voice
Way
Your Body
Certain Way
Instincts
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I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Space
Albums
Giving
People
Time Space Always
Miss
Time Space Yourself
Fresh
Space Time Me
Reinvent
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As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Giving Up
Long
People
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As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Quality
Giving Up
Records
Attached
Great Always Long
Great Long People
Doin
Gonna
Hit Records
Makin
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I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Challenges
Far Away
Musician
Said
Want
Myself Me Feel
Myself Always Me
Feel
Steer
Away
Doing
Challenge
Too
Set
Expect
Far
Myself Me Always
Having
No-One
Normally
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What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don't take kindly to thieves in Africa.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Running
Caught
Dirty
Fruit
Lakes
Remember
Selling
Swimming
Thieves
Africa
Wild
Hoping
Picking
Trees
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That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Aspect
Payment
Related
Actual
Anything Else
Repeat
Thoughts
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While I'm here, I'm gonna milk it for all I can, so when I'm no longer hot - and I know that day is coming - I will step over here and enjoy everything I've created up to this point. The music is just opening all these doors, so I can relax.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Music
Doors
Enjoy
Milk
Opening
Relax
Coming
Created
Gonna
Over
Longer
Point
Step
While
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Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Success
Artist
Be Prepared
Controversy
Legends
Manage
Over It
Prepared
Thinking
Way
Actually
Artists
Deal
How
Whatever
Gotta
Over
Jump
Success Way Your
Obstacle
Regular
Separates
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Who is the best rapper ever? I'll probably have to say Eminem. I would definitely say Eminem. He came from a whole another culture, literally. Mastered it, outsold everybody and he did every kind of record imaginable. He could take any topic and make a song out of it. I haven't seen any artist do that yet.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Artist
Rapper
Song
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I always feel like 'as long as I'm doin' what I love to do, the money's naturally gonna come.' When you start thinkin' business and you start thinkin' 'What's hot? What's the wave? Who is hot? Let's get at that person,' it becomes a point where you're tryin' to strategize to make money. And that's always a gamble.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Business
Gamble
Hot
Long
Making Money
Wave
Naturally
Becomes
Doin
Gonna
Point
Start
Tryin
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Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Albums
Focus
Guests
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Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Flood
Focus
Guests
Album
Bought
Limited
Lose
Mine
Pick
Stays
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I always felt like if you get to a point where you've got enough money to invest in something real, you gotta invest in anything that's related to a natural resource because that's gonna be here forever - so you might as well invest in something that's gonna be here, rather than invest in something that's gonna wear out.
Akon / Hip-Hop Artist
Forever
Might
Real
Related
Money Always Enough
Invest
Money Enough Always
Enough Money
Gotta
Money Real Always
Natural Resource
Resource
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