Akon Planning to Re-Record Entire Catalog in Country Music Genre

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Akon is happily joining the country music boom ... but unlike other rappers, he plans on re-recording his whole discography -- and giving people that honky-tonk twang!!!

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00:00So Snooze Dogg, right, and a bunch of other rappers, including Chanel West Coast, they're

00:06all going to be going country, collaborating with country artists.

00:09Is that something that you would consider doing?

00:12I'm actually redoing my whole catalog in country.

00:15Are you being funny?

00:17No, Blake.

00:18No, Blake.

00:19So what gave you that idea?

00:23That's crazy.

00:24So you've been ahead of the game?

00:26Forever.

00:27So how long is the process taking?

00:29Like, how long have you been actually re-recording?

00:31The process has been in motion for like the last five years.

00:34But starting next month, you're going to start seeing all the releases.

00:37So what about Locked Up?

00:39Is that going to be like a country?

00:41No way.

00:42No way.

00:43Any features?

00:44They are.

00:45They're country artists featuring me.

00:47They're the ones performing them.

00:49No!

00:50That's crazy.

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