Akon Opens Up About Life, Before The Fame, Business, The Fugees, & More

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  • čas přidán 6. 08. 2021
  • Pierre's Panic Room - As a guest on Pierre's Panic Room, Akon stops by to open up about his early life of crime and transition into music. The mogul talks business, life, and more. IG: @ComicPierre
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Komentáře • 134

  • @4LEAFCLOVER1980
    @4LEAFCLOVER1980 Před 2 lety +30

    Great interview! Akon is a VERY smart brother! Glad to see him still on his A game. Pierre keep bringing these great interviews! Love tuning in Bro!

  • @tammdior3049
    @tammdior3049 Před 2 lety +7

    Great interview Pierre... from TAMMY... the drink pourer 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣✊🏾😜

  • @renairving3530
    @renairving3530 Před 2 lety +2

    One of thee best interviews I’ve ever seen, so much stuff I didn’t know! 🙌🏾🙌🏾

  • @nyakarundi
    @nyakarundi Před 2 lety +13

    akon business analysis is on point, that is a smart brother for sure

  • @urbanflavorz
    @urbanflavorz Před 2 lety +11

    Great interview especially when they started talking Business

  • @solomoncg1
    @solomoncg1 Před 2 lety +13

    Excellent job Pierre's, you sit back and listen to this brother dropping imperative, well needed knowledge!! This brilliant brother, brings epic wisdom, knowledge and understanding to the panic room!!
    He's also building a city in African name after him!!
    "This king need to be protected "

  • @brucebruce323
    @brucebruce323 Před 2 lety +2

    When you've been around the globe so many times, and don't remember the picture location that you took. That. Is. BALLING.

  • @sever427
    @sever427 Před 2 lety +5

    Why is locked up playing in my head while I watch this. "Won't let me out wooo...."

    • @sever427
      @sever427 Před 2 lety

      @HIPHOPBEATZONLINE DOT COM damn you must be psychic. I just got out and got my property back

  • @ju2u678
    @ju2u678 Před 2 lety +5

    Pierre got one of the best shows on CZcams so I glad I found this chanel Great Interview❤

  • @barbarakeown8407
    @barbarakeown8407 Před 2 lety +5

    Awesome interview with Akon! So excited to see the fruition of him creation in Senagal, Africa! Gonna beGood!! ✊🏾💪🏾❤️

  • @cheffox100
    @cheffox100 Před 2 lety +8

    Man supporting black owned products. 💯💯💯. Love that.

  • @cjwardcreations
    @cjwardcreations Před rokem

    Much love and positive energy to your show and influence! Plus, appreciate the Paducah shout out!
    #PtownProud

  • @theradicalking9094
    @theradicalking9094 Před 2 lety +6

    great interview

  • @tonyafrica7085
    @tonyafrica7085 Před 2 lety

    This is one of the Best videos I've seen on CZcams!!!

  • @KBHfinanceguy
    @KBHfinanceguy Před 2 lety +4

    "You can't choose who loves you..."~Akon Deep!

  • @savtrill333
    @savtrill333 Před 2 lety +29

    Akon Is A Genius!!!

  • @showtime20019
    @showtime20019 Před 2 lety +5

    Pierre, WOW bro! You growing bro. Keep grinding man. The interview with Akon is good!

  • @YouKnowGeo
    @YouKnowGeo Před 2 lety +1

    Dope episode

  • @mariecampbell3373
    @mariecampbell3373 Před 2 lety +3

    I loved hearing this story.

  • @40BYNATURE
    @40BYNATURE Před 2 lety +2

    Been Rocking with Kon since Upfront Ent! He's official! Great Interview!

  • @serioustalkwithbhudax
    @serioustalkwithbhudax Před 2 lety

    He's a king now. Great staff watching Akon after a while. As an African child I grew up idolizing him. I Sam glad I did. Today I'm a better person. The best part is finding out he was an outstanding businessman what I was and still work towards. Thanks again guy.

  • @perryi7752
    @perryi7752 Před 2 lety +6

    This dude is smart. This why he making big moves.

  • @mrlwiseman2900
    @mrlwiseman2900 Před 2 lety +11

    I knew Akon was the real deal, when i heared him promoting Africa 1st, and telling yall, Africa is calling you home, money to be made, and you get to help your ppl

  • @rufbuf1418
    @rufbuf1418 Před 2 lety +3

    Akon was kicking some real business talk 100

  • @DavidJonesAirway
    @DavidJonesAirway Před 2 lety

    Great convo

  • @CueBoy28
    @CueBoy28 Před 2 lety +1

    I fell out at @11:46 🤣😂

  • @MariaAlvarez-mn9nd
    @MariaAlvarez-mn9nd Před 2 lety +1

    What makes a great interviewer? One that listens, and Pierre you’re a great interviewer

  • @momentofclarity4262
    @momentofclarity4262 Před 2 lety +3

    Stubbled around this channel and I love it! Great interview, Akon giving a lot of gems!

  • @Desnes7
    @Desnes7 Před 2 lety +5

    He's morphing into Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  • @PortiaShannon03
    @PortiaShannon03 Před 2 lety +6

    Pierre you doing ya thing! Some of my favorite entertainers been on your show.

  • @yellagirl419
    @yellagirl419 Před 2 lety +14

    Great interview Akon is brilliant Aries Gang Gang!!! I would loveee to see the living Legend Katt Williams on the show!!!!

    • @juliedream1625
      @juliedream1625 Před 2 lety

      He is Taurus boo💜💜

    • @yellagirl419
      @yellagirl419 Před 2 lety +1

      @@juliedream1625 his birthday is April 16 He is an Aries all day boo boo 😂😂😂😂 #AriesGangGang🙌🙌🙌🙌 Just so you know Taurus starts April 20th I already knew that because mine is April19 the last day to be an Aries 😉😂😂

  • @beezo6465
    @beezo6465 Před 2 lety +1

    This is a good and funny interview 👍

  • @michael43567
    @michael43567 Před 2 lety +5

    38:40 - 39:38 Perfect analogy. Black ppl judge each other & put each other down. The whites are more united which's why they keep us down

  • @someguyjohn6599
    @someguyjohn6599 Před 2 lety +4

    Great interview. A whole lot of Gems in this one.

  • @quishafoster4602
    @quishafoster4602 Před 2 lety

    Shout out to my hometown native Akon stl,mo making us look good always great interview

  • @DatgirlV
    @DatgirlV Před 2 lety +4

    I enjoy all your shows, but this one was hilarious. My friend is a genius and the most humble person I am blessed to know. 😊❤️

  • @michael43567
    @michael43567 Před 2 lety +1

    I never get tired of hearing Akon's come up story.

  • @lmcmill5964
    @lmcmill5964 Před 2 lety +2

    Ok PIERRE!! You movin on up 👍🏾Keep guests with status like his coming

  • @Imdeeroze
    @Imdeeroze Před 2 lety +1

    My brother 👑

  • @lilhiss1410
    @lilhiss1410 Před 2 lety

    ''water u never tasted'' before damnn hilarious..... but it was great going inside Akon mind THANK YOU for this podcast Pierre

  • @michael43567
    @michael43567 Před 2 lety +2

    41:10 - 41:21 That was perfect comedic timing, he didn't even laugh to f*ck up the joke lool

  • @Dacut00
    @Dacut00 Před 2 lety +1

    I grow an inch taller whenever I listen to Akon dropping gems

  • @joannelindsay4977
    @joannelindsay4977 Před 2 lety +4

    I 💜 AKON

  • @roslynsamuria7309
    @roslynsamuria7309 Před 2 lety

    Avon preaching 🔥

  • @racoon3032
    @racoon3032 Před 2 lety

    Nice one! Akon is a smart dude.

  • @deloresairey4054
    @deloresairey4054 Před 2 lety +2

    Akon, you are not ugly. No. Like the man said at the end, "You are Special"

  • @infinit0137
    @infinit0137 Před 2 lety +1

    Akon is a legend. He made a lot of people rich and famous like T-Pain, Lady Gaga, Kardinal Offishall, Kat DeLuna, Red Cafe, Dolla, and Verse Simmonds

  • @myleskennedy7733
    @myleskennedy7733 Před 2 lety +1

    Akon dropping gems

  • @neeks0076
    @neeks0076 Před 2 lety +4

    Dammm I loved this show! PIERRE you're funny asf and ask the right questions... pls more dope guest

  • @AldermanFredCDavis
    @AldermanFredCDavis Před 2 lety +3

    Good interview. One observation, usually Pierre you are great at getting your guests to provide context for something they're saying. For example, I have seen several interviews where one of your guests will say something like, "Yeah, I went with Pam. Pam is my ride or die. I'm always with Pam." Most likely, you're audience is thinking, "Who tf is Pam?" And, Pierre is great at asking the question, getting the guest to provide context for WHO "Pam" is?
    Similarly, I like that Pierre usually, (or in the 6 or 7 podcasts that I've seen) asks follow up questions. I do not watch 'surface' or superficial interviews, where the guest is really there (being interviewed) "solely" to promote some project (business, movie, music, whatever). I do wish you had gone a little more in-depth with Akon. For example, "Akon, what was your Senagalese father saying to you, after he found out you were in jail?" (especially since his father seemed like a, "no nonsense" type of guy. Another example is when Akon said, when he was in jail, he had, 'a 10 year goal of getting to work with Michael Jackson.' You were running low on time, and you both only kinda' glossed over it. Yeah, it just so happened that MJ and Akon had the same attorney, so they met that way. My question would have been, "Being that this was #1 of your goals, exactly what was your plan to get to work with him, had it not been just the sheer coincidence of sharing the same attorney?"
    Akon, being the strategic-thinker that he is, I'd have been curious as to, "HOW" he was going to make that goal happen?
    Overall good interview, and I do find Pierre to be very entertaining.

  • @craigmoore8278
    @craigmoore8278 Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks Akon ,we black folks love you

  • @mariecampbell3373
    @mariecampbell3373 Před 2 lety +3

    Pierre is crazy😧

  • @allenprice1570
    @allenprice1570 Před 2 lety

    That's what it's all about is helping each other.

  • @user-uz1si3fu1i
    @user-uz1si3fu1i Před 11 dny

    Very good 😊

  • @scramcarolina
    @scramcarolina Před 2 lety +5

    Take A Bow Mr.Pierre.....You've Arrived!

  • @demetriousjohnson2194
    @demetriousjohnson2194 Před 2 lety +2

    Mane I no I ain’t the only to notice that piece huh bruh?

  • @toneyrockstv
    @toneyrockstv Před 2 lety +1

    I'm so glad Kon kept it real on the race and religion BS. God damn black community is entirely too focused on race. Love who you love. Marry who you love. Procreate with WHO TF YOU LOVE!!!

  • @205mrha
    @205mrha Před 2 lety

    Akon smart as hell....salute!

  • @jourdan585
    @jourdan585 Před 2 lety

    Pierre finally made me laugh

  • @robertevans1343
    @robertevans1343 Před 2 lety +1

    Akon ✌🏾2021

  • @ralami6183
    @ralami6183 Před 2 lety +2

    28:21 One of the smartest thing’s I’ve heard in a while

    • @swanny155
      @swanny155 Před 2 lety

      I been thought of that

    • @ralami6183
      @ralami6183 Před 2 lety

      @@swanny155 Congratulations cool guy

  • @BTTang-ux3lv
    @BTTang-ux3lv Před 2 lety +1

    No shit! Akon does dive in to crowds during concert. I was there in Fields in Copenhagen, Denmark, year 2008. Dude jumped and got his T-shirt ripped apart by ppl, and ppl were fighting for parts of the T-shirt, Popo came as well. What a night as I am recalling it right now.

  • @renairving3530
    @renairving3530 Před rokem

    Dayum Akon was truly kicking knowledge. If us Blacks would just stick together and come together in unity, my gawd we would be a force to be reckoned with….

  • @newyorkfootballgiants8534

    Why Akon look like he got the hair painted on him 😂😂

  • @INTERNATIONALSHINK
    @INTERNATIONALSHINK Před 2 lety +6

    Akon is a historian. He reminds me of myself. I'm into all kinds of entrepreneurial shit also! Just not on his level. Wishing to be there off my hard work and good decisions!

  • @nyakarundi
    @nyakarundi Před 2 lety +1

    that is the think, if you not a celebrity, getting those contact is almost impossible.

  • @2weeksago642
    @2weeksago642 Před 2 lety +1

    29:45 I always think about why they even teach us as kids about blacks being slaves. That’s so fucked up. It creates so much tension in people from an early age

  • @lizmichael6901
    @lizmichael6901 Před 2 lety

    So funny!

  • @blackisthebest7811
    @blackisthebest7811 Před 2 lety +1

    Interview Edi mean from outlaws or Napoleon Mutah Beale

  • @michaelgray4416
    @michaelgray4416 Před 2 lety

    #500...........get it.

  • @shawronofficial
    @shawronofficial Před 2 lety +3

    Big artist and people be on 85 south show but it’s because of how cool the host is

    • @ComicPierre
      @ComicPierre  Před 2 lety +3

      Then to respect me get over there. I’m not a cool host. Now if you come back you’re lamer than me. So this is our last interaction

  • @jonniequezt9105
    @jonniequezt9105 Před 2 lety +1

    i do the same thing half a tank i fill up

  • @christophermudd7844
    @christophermudd7844 Před 2 lety

    How can I get one of those Panic Room T-Shirts?

    • @ComicPierre
      @ComicPierre  Před 2 lety

      They will go back on sale soon. Went fast

  • @LILMOFILMS
    @LILMOFILMS Před 2 lety

    34:00 thats what young dolph was tryna do

  • @TheRealAfricanist
    @TheRealAfricanist Před 2 lety +1

    South Africa is real Africa!! It's a black man's country, that's what the anti-apartheid revolution was about, and that's what the anti- neo-colonial movents are currently all about! There is more to S. Africa than Cape Town and Johannesburg.

  • @Radiotubetv111
    @Radiotubetv111 Před 2 lety

    Pierre, I love the satin tie and i I will admit i am not that light but because I am o chocolate black which to me is beautiful they don't like me i am not trying to say that it is all about color but sometimes it was about my personality sometimes it was i did not look like one another we are still black we need to stick together if your helping people out Pierre get on my podcast I would like to have you sprinkle me I never post on pages but I am asking you to help us out but if not I rock with this show because you bring people on that to have meaningful conversations. We do not see it as real Afrika because they are colonizers just like America. **Black is beautiful and all colors that God has made.

  • @neferkwi7920
    @neferkwi7920 Před 2 lety

    Ask Akon about his father and Don Pullen touring around the world for 15 years, More Thiam 🧐

  • @rillyjo5810
    @rillyjo5810 Před 2 lety

    that 911 call when he said his car was stolen was hilarious cuz i thought mans was a gangsta

  • @entertainmentfolloworgomis3169

    "South Africa aint the real Africa" lol

  • @michael43567
    @michael43567 Před 2 lety

    36:30 - 36:42 facts. We want the discount from each other but not the white man.

  • @Joey_Lance
    @Joey_Lance Před 2 lety

    Akon got a new hairline

  • @nyakarundi
    @nyakarundi Před 2 lety +1

    it s not because a prison is run by black people that inmate will be treated better, that is ridiculous, we need invest in programs that create positive opportunities for our communities.

  • @ccr6088
    @ccr6088 Před 2 lety +4

    Ummm but Akon is getting loans for his infrastructure from China 👀🗣 which is supporting modern day colonialism. So when Akon said “it’s just buisness” he was talking about himself while also being a hypocrite 😸

    • @urbanflavorz
      @urbanflavorz Před 2 lety +2

      stop complaining

    • @jerryanthony1814
      @jerryanthony1814 Před 2 lety

      Where did you expect him to get the money from?!The Great U.S of Assholes?

    • @jpswerve182
      @jpswerve182 Před 2 lety +1

      Facts! He’s a pawn. They know that black people listen to entertainers before they listen to reputable scientists and economists.

    • @ccr6088
      @ccr6088 Před 2 lety

      @@urbanflavorz stop being so simple

    • @FlorenceElu
      @FlorenceElu Před 2 lety

      So wouldn't it be modern day colonialism if he got his loan from the US or UK? And why that word when every businessman gets a loan from someone else to get their business going? Donald Trump, Mike Bloomberg etc got & get loans for their businesses, so what's the difference?

  • @Calibro87
    @Calibro87 Před 2 lety +13

    Akon has alot of good points, but he's wrong about 1 thing, "African American" children do need to learn about our history, good bad and indifferent.....I like Akon alot, from his music to his philanthropy to his work in Africa. On the other hand even though Akon was born in America, his parents aren't from America. African American history is not his history, so it makes sense why a part of him feels the way he does. His DNA does not have the same mental trauma and physical ailments passed on by our parents, grandparents, great grandparents etc. I do agree, we don't need to use slavery as a crutch, but generational trauma caused by Slavery and Jim Crowe is a "thing".

    • @JuniorNGU
      @JuniorNGU Před 2 lety +2

      DNA passing down mental trauma I’ve heard it all 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @warfighter1988
      @warfighter1988 Před 2 lety +1

      I'm pretty sure Africans people also know struggle

    • @mobambadieye3616
      @mobambadieye3616 Před 2 lety +1

      We know struggle, cuz a lot of those salves was a family to us!

  • @papeperview
    @papeperview Před 2 lety +1

    I don't agree with Akon's outlook on slavery

  • @willisrael7829
    @willisrael7829 Před 2 lety +2

    Deuteronomy 28: 1-68........we will always be at the bottom until our King comes.....we didn't keep our God's laws........btw.......blacks are not African.....they're Israelites

  • @KKemp-bt6nl
    @KKemp-bt6nl Před 2 lety +3

    Pierre, be quiet and let Akon talk. The man is highly intelligent, and experienced. Pierre is a speed bump and distraction to the knowledge Akon is dropping.

  • @myramilton1833
    @myramilton1833 Před 2 lety +2

    I love Akon but it appears his mind has been infiltrated by Kevin Samuels cult. Don't let the temptation of beautiful women be your demise. Learn to adore the inside of a woman instead of the physical beauty so much. There are so much more to a woman than her physical attributes. Inner attributes are more important than the physical.

  • @groovykaay2098
    @groovykaay2098 Před 2 lety

    Pimping 101

  • @toh1416
    @toh1416 Před 2 lety +2

    This interviewer is on mad coke man, i cant even relax watchin it 🤣

    • @ComicPierre
      @ComicPierre  Před 2 lety

      😂😂to a guy who doesn’t even smoke or drink. But I bypassed all that and went for the Coke-iena. 😂

  • @akaziaj
    @akaziaj Před 2 lety

    Africa is a continent not a country. Pierre may not know better but I know Akon does.

  • @MrIgnid
    @MrIgnid Před 2 lety +1

    Why does it sound like Akon lying?

    • @FlorenceElu
      @FlorenceElu Před 2 lety

      About what? I don't really know his story, so just asking.

    • @kiiza2886
      @kiiza2886 Před 2 lety

      because your a liar your self

  • @clwxrf6007
    @clwxrf6007 Před 2 lety

    Great interview, just a thought Akon is African, the blood of slaves does not run in his veins. Unless his children have mother’s who are descendants of enslaved people why teach them black history.

  • @hiphophistorycanada
    @hiphophistorycanada Před 11 měsíci

    #welldeserved It was written that these two meet. I look forward to experiencing why.

  • @mattbarnett1227
    @mattbarnett1227 Před 2 lety +8

    finally found something excellent ...homerun funny! pierre=new1

  • @terrencewilliams8739
    @terrencewilliams8739 Před rokem

    Anwan Glover would be a great interview for you to do our own dc native @comicpierre