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Akon is at it again

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Originally posted by: yllus
Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
lol i love this ATOT crowd, hating on some black singer/rapper who targets his music toward the teenage crowd. of course you guys are going to hate him, the majority of you guys are white, 21+, married or whatnot and/or don't listen to hiphop/r&b. haha as a 20 year old asian guy who doesn't mind listening to all kinds of music this thread was kind of amusing. of course i don't agree with what he was doing to that girl if he didn't have her consent before it. and the same goes for throwing the kid, although i dont quite know whats going on with the throwing video.

you guys shouldn't say his music is crap though. one of his songs "Don't Matter" was the #1 listened to and downloaded song in the nation, that kind of says something... regardless of what this ATOT crowd thinks...
Speak the truth brother!

It's funny how I didn't see LOUSSSSS post until it was quoted by someone else. My automatic crap filters must be working. Woot.
 
Originally posted by: Doodoo
This concert was actually in my hometown in upstate NY. Concert done by a small radiostation. The cops are actually looking for the guy that was thrown off the stage so they can ask him some questions and decide whether to press charges against Akon.

I can't imagine for what... I used to go to a lot of punk and ska shows and quite a few metal shows... I have seen much, much worse. Not unusual for a kid to get thrown off stage at a show by a performer. I don't know if you old timers remember having fun at concerts... but this is nothing. I saw dropkick murphy in boston on saint patrick's day when i was in high school... The pit was more of a fist fight... skinheads are nutso in pits... hell, some kid climbed on top of a 6 foot tall or so speaker on stage and dived into the crowd. That was intense.
 
Suing him would pretty much be asking to go into massive debt. His record company can buy a better lawyer than that kid could ever hope to afford (unless his parents are multi-millionaires or something).
 
Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
you guys shouldn't say his music is crap though. one of his songs "Don't Matter" was the #1 listened to and downloaded song in the nation, that kind of says something... regardless of what this ATOT crowd thinks...

And McDonald's makes the best burger in the world because they sell the most, right?
 
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
White chicks cheering when a black man takes off his shirt.. Such a cliche. It's slavery, all over again - fetishising a race isn't progress, it's quite the opposite.
you didn't really post that. :Q

chicks cheer whenever a guy who is in shape takes off his shirt. show me a guy with a beer gut who takes off his shirt and girls of every color will "boo".

I seriously hope you were being sarcastic.
 
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: FleshLight
Well the kid did throw a ball at his face.

It was a frisbee, and where did it say it hit Akon's face? Have you been to an outdoor concert before? Beach balls and frisbees are flying all over. I'd imagine the kid didn't mean for it to go up onstage.

Reading more on this there is an eyewitness account saying the kid fell straight to the ground after he was thrown.

If the kid's any kind of basketball player, he knows how to flop. Gotta work the refs to get ahead in the game. 😉
 
Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
lol i love this ATOT crowd, hating on some black singer/rapper who targets his music toward the teenage crowd. of course you guys are going to hate him, the majority of you guys are white, 21+, married or whatnot and/or don't listen to hiphop/r&b. haha as a 20 year old asian guy who doesn't mind listening to all kinds of music this thread was kind of amusing. of course i don't agree with what he was doing to that girl if he didn't have her consent before it. and the same goes for throwing the kid, although i dont quite know whats going on with the throwing video.

you guys shouldn't say his music is crap though. one of his songs "Don't Matter" was the #1 listened to and downloaded song in the nation, that kind of says something... regardless of what this ATOT crowd thinks...

Wow, you're so much better than us. And as a single, college-age Asian male, you bring an extremely unique perspective to this forum
 
Originally posted by: halik
I thought it was funny as hell... that kid did deserve it

The kid was in idiot for throwing it up there. The right thing to do was to have him escorted out of the concert. Akon is a a$$ for throwing a boy off of the stage. He'll get whats coming to him though soon enough.
 
Well if it was a white singer throwing a black guy off the stage Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would be up in arms screaming for his head on a pike.
 
waaaaa...stfu, you idiots. he's a mainstream artist, dont listen to him and shut the hell up. nobody wants to hear about your sh1tty taste in music or what you decide is worth listening too. i'm going to buy every akon cd i ever run across from now on because of you retards. yeah i'm rich.
 
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Originally posted by: halik
I thought it was funny as hell... that kid did deserve it

The kid was in idiot for throwing it up there. The right thing to do was to have him escorted out of the concert. Akon is a a$$ for throwing a boy off of the stage. He'll get whats coming to him though soon enough.

I read more on this incident today. The "frisbee" was actually a piece of pretzel. I'm guessing like a piece of those soft pretzels they sell at sporting events. It didn't hit anyone on the stage, but Akon got the crowd to point out the kid who threw it and then he took off his chain and his shirt and sicced his stage hands on the guy and well, we all saw what happened after that.
 
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Originally posted by: halik
I thought it was funny as hell... that kid did deserve it

The kid was in idiot for throwing it up there. The right thing to do was to have him escorted out of the concert. Akon is a a$$ for throwing a boy off of the stage. He'll get whats coming to him though soon enough.

You never know which way a frisbee's going...that's why they call them frisbees
 
Originally posted by: Inspector Jerkoff
waaaaa...stfu, you idiots. he's a mainstream artist, dont listen to him and shut the hell up. nobody wants to hear about your sh1tty taste in music or what you decide is worth listening too. i'm going to buy every akon cd i ever run across from now on because of you retards. yeah i'm rich.
unfortunately there are people like you who condom what he does and his crap laced music. that's a simple downfall of society.

 
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Inspector Jerkoff
waaaaa...stfu, you idiots. he's a mainstream artist, dont listen to him and shut the hell up. nobody wants to hear about your sh1tty taste in music or what you decide is worth listening too. i'm going to buy every akon cd i ever run across from now on because of you retards. yeah i'm rich.
unfortunately there are people like you who condom what he does and his crap laced music. that's a simple downfall of society.

lern 2 tipe
 
Originally posted by: b0mbrman
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Originally posted by: halik
I thought it was funny as hell... that kid did deserve it

The kid was in idiot for throwing it up there. The right thing to do was to have him escorted out of the concert. Akon is a a$$ for throwing a boy off of the stage. He'll get whats coming to him though soon enough.

You never know which way a frisbee's going...that's why they call them frisbees

per my post above, it appears the frisbee was a piece of pretzel.

"Idema said the object appeared to be about the size of a small chunk of wood. Idema said her daughter identified the object as a piece of a pretzel"

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.../NEWS01/706050326/1006
 
Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Inspector Jerkoff
waaaaa...stfu, you idiots. he's a mainstream artist, dont listen to him and shut the hell up. nobody wants to hear about your sh1tty taste in music or what you decide is worth listening too. i'm going to buy every akon cd i ever run across from now on because of you retards. yeah i'm rich.
unfortunately there are people like you who condom what he does and his crap laced music. that's a simple downfall of society.

lern 2 tipe

wtf are you talking about? 😕
 
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Inspector Jerkoff
waaaaa...stfu, you idiots. he's a mainstream artist, dont listen to him and shut the hell up. nobody wants to hear about your sh1tty taste in music or what you decide is worth listening too. i'm going to buy every akon cd i ever run across from now on because of you retards. yeah i'm rich.
unfortunately there are people like you who condom what he does and his crap laced music. that's a simple downfall of society.

lern 2 tipe

wtf are you talking about? 😕

condom=condone?
 
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