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.