Why lie?

Turns out that Akon isn't the master criminal that he says he was.

"Police, court, and corrections records reveal that the entertainer has created a fictionalized backstory that serves as the narrative anchor for his recorded tales of isolation, violence, woe, and regret. Akon has overdubbed his biography with the kind of grit and menace that he apparently believes music consumers desire from their hip-hop stars."

Here's full story;


http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0416081akon1.html

It's hilarious that these artists are still creating a thuggish, ruggish, pseudo gangster past.

What's worse is that we (the public) love it!

From Ice Cube growing up as a well educated middle class kid to Akon's fakeness - WHY DO ARTISTS STILL COME UP WITH THIS BULLS***?