Can You Believe It Akon
Leanne Wittlin
(1st verse) styles p
Fresh white tee, fresh car walls, summertime hood niggas look like stars
Jewelry drip, fresh white airs, mommy shake it up keep your ass right there (ohh, can you believe it?)
My man got liquor and my cup's right here, i can smell smoke pass the dutch right here
Nigga pass that, capri pants with the waist cut off, i wanna smash that (ohh, can you believe it?)
Party ran pack, mingling baby, and i can ll shake, you jingling baby?
Back your ass up, i'm a start tingling baby, we can have more fun if wiggling baby (yea, can you believe it?)
P hit the club with a dutch and a dub with it, nigga don't cuff it if you ain't in love with it
Matter fact let the grub get it, please don't hate cause at least you can say you was with it
(chorus) akon
Can you believe it? get a break and get off the streets, clear my mind from the shit i see
In a world full of smoke, contact from the weed, that's when it really bond on me
I'm a be here for life, i aint never gonna leave, the ghetto is all that i know
It's just another day in the hood my nigga laying back trying get this dough
Yellin out ohhhhh, all up in the club and you know how we roll, squad deep like ohhhh
Bad little bitch*s with their booty on score trying to beat like whoaaaa
Know your ass feel it cause its outta control
Let me hear you say ohhhhh, let me hear you say ohhhhh ohhh
Can you believe it?
(2nd verse) styles p
Big ass truck, brand new rims, tank top yankee, tanned out tims
Bracelet, chain, fronts bob thin, new tattoos, new black shoes (hey, can you believe it?)
Gucci, ermays, do that too, wanna feel the breeze get a new black coupe
Nigga drop the top, come thru the hood, put a hundred on your three or your foul line shot (ooh. oohh, ohh can you believe it?)
Lending outfits all in the bus cause none of us could see a summer without trips (none of us can see it)
Mad hoops so the little boys might bark at you but they all lack good if the hood bothered you
(chorus) akon
Can you believe it? get a break and get off the streets, clear my mind from the sh*t i see
In a world full of smoke, attack from the weed, that's when it really bond on me
I'm a be here for life, never gonna leave, the ghetto is all that i know
It's just another day in the hood my nigga laying back trying get this dough
Yellin out ohhhhh, all up in the club and you know how we roll, squad deep like ohhhh
Bad little bitch*s with their booty on score trying to beat like whoaaaa
Know your ass feel it cause its outta control
Let me hear you say ohhhhh, let me hear you say ohhhhh ohhhh
Can you believe it?
(3rd verse) styles p
Basketball tournament, pitbull pups
Ladies in the club poring chris in cups
Niggas in the jail calling home on the phone (cause they locked up)
But you still trying to act like ain't sh*t enough
Mad sieves in the park, mad fights in the park niggas talk how they run every night from the narcs
Aside from the light to the dark then the dark to the light, i wanna smoke but i could search for my life
(last verse) akon
Can you believe it? i've done spent ten again, watching her bend again, dancing for many men
Tell me have ever though about getting in, a room full of convicts and d block militants
We'll show you the time of your life, you can occupy my passenger side
Introduce you to the street life, watch you fall in love after just one night
Ohhhh, all up in the club and you know how we roll, squad deep like ohhhh
Bad little bitch*s with their booty on score trying to beat like whoaaaa
Know your ass feel it cause its outta control
Let me hear you say ohhhhh, let me hear you say ohhhhh ohhhh
Can you believe it?
[styles p & akon talking]
Can you believe it? (can you believe it? )
Lil' john, akon, s.p. the ghost
Feel what we trying to do (can you believe it? )
Can you believe it (can you believe it? )
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"I would like to say just pray for the man," Akon said. "God knows best, whatever's happening, God's dealing with it and that's the best thing to say. But it is very unfortunate that things in this business are always being exposed in some ways and I think things could be done differently. But I think this is a matter for God and he's continue to deal with it how he's been dealing with it."
"Everyone's gonna have to answer for what we do on this earth," he shared. "We all have issues, problems, skeletons, and then we also have rewards and achievements and everything of that nature. For the most part, I just believe that God is dealing with you you gotta let the process flow."
His second album, Konvicted (2006) was met with continued success and yielded a Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary R&B Album, while its lead singles: "I Wanna Love You" (featuring Snoop Dogg) and "Smack That" (featuring Eminem) both received nominations for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. The songs peaked at numbers one and two on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively, along with two of his singles released the following year: "Don't Matter" and his guest performance on Gwen Stefani's "The Sweet Escape"; this made Akon the first solo artist to concurrently hold the top two positions on the chart twice.[4][5] His third album, Freedom (2008) was supported by the top ten lead single, "Right Now (Na Na Na)". His fourth album, El Negreeto (2019) explored reggaeton and Latin music.
Akon has since been prolific in charitable and philanthropic endeavors. He launched the non-profit Akon Lighting Africa in 2014 and has begun development on his own city in Senegal, which is scheduled for competition in 2028. Forbes ranked Akon 80th (Power Rank) in the Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2010[6] and 5th in the 40 Most Powerful Celebrities in Africa list, in 2011.[7] Billboard ranked Akon No. 6 on the list of Top Digital Songs Artists of the decade.[8] He was listed by Guinness World Records as the number-one selling artist for master ringtones in the world, with 11 million sold by December 2007.[9]
Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam was born on April 16, 1973, in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Muslim family.[10][11][12] His mother is dancer Kine Gueye Thiam (ne Gueye), and his father is percussionist Mor Thiam.[13][14] Mor Thiam was born to a Toucouleur family of Quranic scholars in Kaolack, Senegal.[13][14] Akon spent a significant part of his childhood in Senegal, which he described as his "hometown". Akon learned to play five instruments, including drums, guitar and djembe.[15] At age seven, he and his family relocated to Union City, New Jersey,[16][17] splitting his time between the United States and Senegal until settling in Newark.[15] Growing up in New Jersey, Akon had difficulties getting along with other children. When he and his older brother reached high school, his parents left them on their own in Jersey City and moved the rest of the family to Atlanta, Georgia.[18] Akon attended William L. Dickinson High School in Jersey City.[19]
Akon's solo debut album, Trouble, was released on June 29, 2004. It spawned the singles "Locked Up", "Lonely", "Belly Dancer (Bananza)", "Pot of Gold" and "Ghetto". "Locked Up" reached the number 8 position in the US and number 5 in the UK. "Ghetto" became a radio hit when it was remixed by DJ Green Lantern to include verses from rappers 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G. The album is a hybrid of Akon's silky, West African-styled vocals mixed with East Coast and Southern beats. Most of Akon's songs begin with the sound of the clank of a jail cell's door with him uttering the word "Konvict".[3]
In 2005, he released the single "Lonely" (which samples Bobby Vinton's "Mr. Lonely"). The song reached the top five on the Billboard Hot 100, and topped the charts in Australia, the UK and Germany. His album also climbed to number one in the UK in April 2005. When music channel The Box had a top ten weekly chart, which was calculated by the number of video requests, Akon's "Lonely" became the longest-running single on the top of the chart, spanning over fifteen weeks. Akon was then featured on two other singles, P-Money's "Keep on Callin'" off the album Magic City, and the other with New Zealand rapper Savage with the single "Moonshine", which had become a success in both New Zealand and Australia, reaching number one in the New Zealand charts. A year later in 2005, he made his first critically acclaimed guest appearance on Young Jeezy's debut album, Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101, with the song "Soul Survivor". In December the same year, his manager Robert Montanez was killed in a shooting after a dispute in New Jersey.
Akon started his new record label KonLive Distribution under Interscope Records. His second album, Konvicted, was released in November 2006 and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, selling 286,000 copies in its first week. After only six weeks, Konvicted sold more than one million records in the US. The album was certified platinum after seven weeks, and after sixteen weeks it was certified double platinum. It stayed in the top twenty of the Billboard 200 for 28 consecutive weeks and peaked at number two on four occasions. On November 20, 2007, the RIAA certified the album 'triple platinum' with 3 million units sold in the US.
The album included collaborations with Eminem, Snoop Dogg, and Styles P. The first single "Smack That" (featuring Eminem) was released in August 2006 and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks. On October 5, 2006, Akon broke a record on the Hot 100, as he achieved the largest climb in the chart's 48-year-history with "Smack That" jumping from number 95 to 7. The leap was fueled by its number six debut on Hot Digital Songs with 67,000 downloads. The record has since been broken several times. "Smack That" was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards, but lost to Justin Timberlake and T.I.'s "My Love".[23]
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