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T-Pain Claims Akon Used a Body Double for Overbooked Shows

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0:00 thank you [Music] all right uh let's see nick name this song real quick you only have one second here uh back that Back Back That Ass Up back that who sings that no no one more time can I get it one more time back to that you know that song yeah yeah yeah I think I think it's it's Akon but sing it with the singers [Music]

1:00 [Laughter] everybody ████ remembers Akon right yeah yeah yeah like Akon's like when he was no of Akon more I think from T-Pain T-Pain put the Akon Legend in my brain why do you call him a legend well cause uh T-Pain I think there's like this like little viral meme going around where he's talking about how when he first got discovered I forgot which record label who's gonna give him like ████ however much million and then he gets a phone call from Akon and then it was like 100 Grand or some ████ like that and then he was like as a viewer you're like bro it's ████ no-brainer dude like however many millions versus like 100 Grand and he goes but then Akon told them but if you follow me I'll give you a career so he

1:51 won't be just like another product in my shelf it's like I'll give you a career and I was like oh damn it comes ████ dope so just because of that like Akon was like legendized in my life I always hear about how he helps everybody yeah there's like a humanitarian stuff didn't T-Pain end up like having massive money problems in the future though possibly I don't know allegedly I don't know he did but teammate also was one of like the Richer ones to have like made it out and like still go to jail and all that stuff but like still have hella money and I feel like he has his hand in everything he was saying writing entrepreneurial like movies like his own moves that he did yeah it wasn't like a label uh Reliant thing but yeah you were it was it put the songs really called what

2:42 you should that being said I wish there was a lever see you later and you're like yeah dude I just was that an Austin Powers am I tripping was it it's also in Japanese prank shows yeah we're like drop into the fire pit or something anyway see you later dude he's a freaking Legend the sharks with lasers yes Akon is a legend he was so legendary uh that this was just found out he was on a uh recent uh radio show where he was uh approached about a rumor that T-Pain had put out on him alleging that Akon's brother was used as a body double when he was overbooked on shows I heard about this and he confirmed it yeah it's true that's genius cool and they do that all the time they kind of look Mercy really MF Doom did that all the time oh that's tight who's MF do the

3:33 mask he has like the ████ half he has a Doctor Doom I think that's slightly different though when you're like like a a singer performer it's like your ████ face there's no mask yeah does he sound the same is that why they probably play a thing though it's probably lip singing to be completely honest he sings Back that yeah yeah yeah because that's why Nick got ████ Mandela effective okay he went to one of the B-side concerts yeah and I was like yeah it comes up that good life that's that's how his parents named Akon and Beacon they talked about this on like The Breakfast Club or something right or something like that um the morning about any other competing shows thanks man yeah yeah yeah love their show but see I'm now that this now

4:23 that this has come out I wonder if other fans are gonna talk about life oh yeah I did see him five years ago and he was kind of whack I wonder if that's gonna happen now well I would also Imagine like uh at that time because he was talking about uh literally said that he had so many show offers coming in during the peak of his career as a performer that he could not leave all this money on the table right like imagine um shows that are random like I don't know ████ a corporate job you know doing a gig for some sort of like industrial yeah opening for for you know a giant or the 10-year anniversary or some Mega commercial blah blah like you don't actually care nor are all the participants that really know who you they like maybe know your music from top 40 radio they don't actually know what you look like I'm imagining a bunch of like corporate like white people if it's not a ticketed event he's like wearing sunglasses and you're just kind of like

5:13 no that's for sure him yeah but it's really just his brother that's true that's you know what I'm saying like I could see that it's hard to verify that not one person in the county is going to give a ████ like even if one guy cared that's kind of ████ for him right you guys this is really not Akon I'm like hey God no it's him dude like how do you verify that right Akon is not about to come up is everyone cool but I bet some true Die Hard fans have a feeling if they happen to see one of like Akon's Brothers perform they'll be like something's off better yeah you have a passion for this oh it's me Colleen I'm sorry guys this is a this is a terrible photo it does look important we had to put it on speaker next time

6:04 yeah new rule obviously this is uh pixelated but like this is what this is what some people are seeing whoa pixelated but it is a look-alike brother right I don't know you tell me it comes on the right is he yeah yeah like Akon that's definitely ████ up for a ticketed event imagine showing up and he's just like and his brother's just like dripping right just like like all the ████ bling wearing sunglasses what are you gonna say nothing I have my own version of this so I what through my through my not really but like yeah people go to classic it's not really big at the gym I grappled with them I swear somebody just puts on ████ cauliflower ears about people there's

6:54 this there's my my Taiwanese counterpart his name is Kenny he's one of my best buds I've known him for like 10 years we've all trained together but for no matter what gym we go to because we've been through all our gym Journeys together everybody always calls me Kenny everyone always calls okay yeah I could see that really yeah to this day even at school at this at The Glass House for each other I know but people still like confuse us with with Nick and Kenny because we're just too ████ Asian dudes it's kind of ████ up so it's a racial issue it's a racial so have you ever has you have you ever taught one of Kenny's classes in can you tell me your classes yeah it happened the other day on Thursday grappled each other and just lost track of Who's Who sometimes that happens like you go home to the wrong house oh ████ I'm Nick holy ████ it's a new reality show some Wife Swap yeah one of

7:46 the one of the little girls came up to us and she's known us for years and she goes I can't tell the difference between between both you guys that's what she said to us she's like she's like hey no she's like sorry she goes you guys look the same I don't know which one's which that's what she said and she's noticed she's just nagging dude what's funny is uh they actually Akon and his brother also have another brother an older brother Omar who isn't as much of a look-alike and wanted to get in on the action but uh since he was as much a little I couldn't do it so he did it without getting Akon's permission oh ████ so it literally said Omar he would do it without getting permission from me Norbu Omar would be in another country another city getting money and I'd be like what they booked me already but basically he's on stage singing that that yeah

8:43 [Laughter] it's funny because when MF MF Doom did that same thing and when he got caught he uh he told the fans that it was always meant to be about the music so you're wrong for wanting it to be me he's like it's not supposed to be me it's just my music yeah and that ████ expert gaslighting expert gaslighting yeah that's kind of tight though but then would you guys feel offended if you went to see dead mouse it was just some other guy I actually went to a show like that so I went to a one of those hard festivals and then it was at the shrine and uh one of my buddies older brothers super into like the DJ Scene so he would get like these secret shows that are

9:33 like at mansions and stuff all the time and he was like Hey so word on the street is Daft Punk is gonna show up and then everyone like all of her friends were like what the ████ are you ████ serious this is ████ crazy so everyone's tripping out like dude okay so we got to set the main stage because that wants to show up and this is like I think uh pre Coachella where they haven't performed for like another like 10 15 years so all of us are just like oh so excited and then Daft Punk shows up and he starts playing and of course the Crowd Goes insane right and then my friend's older brother was looking at his laptop and he goes oh that's DJ am actually because that's pretty cool yeah he goes I recognize his laptop and he has the same laptop everywhere he goes That's arguably just as cool though yeah and then he was like that's not Daft Punk nobody thought Daft Punk is two people so maybe one guy can't rep two people well I think at that time they're so legendary if you even got one of them

10:24 you're so happy oh yeah you know what I mean so it's just one guy with like I think the gold helmet guy came out and everyone's like oh ████ that's pretty and then but my friend's older brother was like I think that's DJ rest in peace rest in peace am yeah you don't be the sickest ████ thing is if you went to go see Daft Punk and um or not that fun but if you went to see marshmallow and dead mouse and they ████ took it off and it was Daft Punk oh that'd be crazy when they took it off they said and then they take that off and it's ████ Michael Jackson Tupac my head's this small now this ████ little thing that keep getting smaller and you can't even tell you're like I would buy tickets to that show [Music]

11:22 foreign [Music]

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