From brushes with the law to brushing elbows with today's hottest stars in the music industry, Akon has indeed proven to have made a 360 degree turnaround from being a notorious gangster to one of today's sought after rapper and record producer.

This Senegalese rapper/producer first found home in the ghetto upon arriving in America and lived the life of the rich and famous in notoriety living most of his young life in and out the penitentiary. And when his stay behind bars went a little too long for him to bear, I wanna Akon realized he can live the same rich life the legal way with his talent in music.

Hesitant to face the gangsters' ridicule at first, I wanna Akon just kept the desire to himself and just kept on writing what's on his thoughts until his release. Akon began recording his tracks until his tapes made its way to Universal paving way for his debut album Trouble in 2004.

Basically about his notorious life, Trouble Akon cd list spawned the hits listen to Akon locked up and Akon lyrics mr. lonely as well as "Belly Dancer (Bananza)," "Pot Of Gold," and "Ghetto.

After raking in success with Trouble, Akon released late last year his sophomore album "Konvicted," which included collaborations with Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Styles P.

Akon and emenem smack that, which was a result of a previous snitch Akon collaboration, Akon samck that broke a record on the Hot 100 achieving the largest climb in the chart's history.

Lyrics for smack that by Akon rocketed from 95 to the seventh spot fueled by eminem Akon mp3 number 6 debut on Hot Digital Songs with over 67,000 copies sold earning a parody Akon slap that.

Akon's second single off his Konvicted album is I wana love you Akon. I wana love you Akon is another collaboration with one of the biggest names in rap, Snoop Dogg.

A more serious, tamed version of Akon i want to love you appears in Konvicted while Snoop Dogg dwells on the more sexually explicit version of Akon i want to love you snoop dogg ft. Akon mp3 in his eight album Tha Blue Carpet Treatment.

Enjoying double exposure from Akon and snoopdog, Akon love you sends in a double feat for Akon and snoopdog earning Akon his first number one single on the Billboard Hot 100 and Snoop's second.

While 'i wanna love you' feat. snoop dog - Akon carries a similar theme with T-Pain's hit "I'm in luv (wit a stripper)," Akon takes i wanna love you Akon mp3 to a different route from the usual "hook up" raps with i wanna love you Akon mp3 lyrics telling the listeners that the messenger of i wanna f you Akon actually wants to marry the stripper in i want to love you by Akon instead of engaging only on a one-night stand.

Snoop Dogg, however, takes on the typical rap theme of the song Akon i wanna f you.

With the success of i want to love you Akon and smack that Akon mp3, Akon wouldn't want to stop there and sit on his laurels but rather mapped out other future collaborations, this time with the brightest stars in the industry including Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, to name a few.

Aside from writing for these used-to-be-up-there stars who are staging a comeback, Akon also started his new record label Kon Live Distribution under Interscope Records with former TLC member Chilli as the first artist under its wing.

Chili is soon to release her new album "Point of View" under Akon's record label.

Other major collaborations under Akon's belt aside from the Akon and snoop dogg tandem include that of Gwen Stefani's latest album, "The Sweet Escape," and Chamillionaire's latest mixtape entitled "Mixtape Messiah 2."

Other collaborative works Akon smack that underway include Young Jeezy's, Young Buck's sophomore album "Buck the World", Papoose's major label debut album, "The Nacirema Dream," Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's upcomming album "Strength and Loyalty," Kardinal Offishall's fourth solo album, "Not for Sale", Three 6 Mafia's eight studio album, "Da Last 2 Walk," T.I.'s upocoming album "T.I. vs. T.I.P.", Juvenile's upcoming album, entitled "Diary of a Soulja", "R&M: Rhythem & Music", the sophomore album by T-Pain, and upcoming Aftermath rapper, G.A.G.E. debut solo album, "The Soundtrack To My Life."