Akon’s Longtime Pal Sticking Him For $150 Million

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Music veteran Akon is going to either lawyer up or dig deep into his pockets. The hip-hop artist’s business partner has gone at him for $150 million.

According to reports, ‘Kon’s longtime pal Devyne Stephens believes he’s owed millions dating back to 2006.

Stephens is the music exec who famously helped launch Akon’s career, and his Konvict Music label — and in a new lawsuit he says he’s supposed to be getting 40% of everything Akon’s earned since 2006. He says their contract gives him a cut of record sales, touring rights, royalties and more. Akon’s old pal admits they had a dispute over the contract, but says they squashed it in 2015. Stephens says the problem is … he still hasn’t seen a dime. (TMZ)

Earlier this year, the music vet made headlines for speaking up on President Donald Trump.

“It’s almost like you have to treat politics like how you treat your children. There’s just a lot of information that they just don’t need to know. Obama was very good at that because he understood how to deal with world affairs without involving the public in areas where they need to overthink things or assume things. Whereas, Trump’s coming into it wanting people to know he’s tough from day one and he’s giving out too much information too quick. So what happens is, before we can process the information, there’s action followed up behind it and everyone’s confused because it’s never happened before so you create panic, you create fear and ultimately then it becomes chaos.” (TMZ)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymXpsBhWEzI

Akon also acknowledged President Trump’s tough guy persona.

“I respect him. I honestly believe that he’s probably the most courageous president to ever hit the office. But at the same time, I also believe that if you’re gonna be a strong leader, you also have to be compassionate and you have to think about the people’s wellbeing and the process of as you’re doing things because it’s one thing to be tough. But everybody knows a bully, one day, will be taken down. It’s just a matter of time and we don’t want our president to be looked at as a bully.” (TMZ)

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Written by Cyrus Langhorne

SOHH.com Writer. You're likely to find me covering hip-hop news and music releases. Netflix is still my go-to before Disney Plus.

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