The Brutal Collapse of Akon’s Scam City 

Great vid so far, no doubt. It's "time" not thyme haha

He didn't get the name for being a convict, he got it for being a con man!

do people actually pay for these scams? kids make your own food

I´ve no mercy for dumb people that invested in this Akon-crap and expect another outcome!🙄That´s like you put your money onto a fraudster like Trump and loose everything!🤔Sometimes people had to eat sh*t to learn their lessons or better use next time their #CommonSense😏

the future is now@@ray017ray017

Agreed. Also, it looks it would only cater to the wealthy. And white foreigners would be a bulk of the residents

Not to mention that taking land from villagers while cost of living in Dakar ridiculously high is evil...evil intentions all round from my brother A kon

It was a money grab

Yeah okay there Whoopi

Like honestly bro, what do you know? “Urban planner” 😂

Mind... Blown.

I don't get it.

@@jk6971 A Kon as in a conman

​@@jk6971u must be slow 😅

KONVICT

It's ironic that you don't see the problem with the creator using the term Africa in the exact same way. Media literacy applies to all media.

@@mrscaterpillarlegs I saw it, just decided to pick a specific battle, but you are right, Media literacy applies to all media.

It was actually called Akon city

Sub-Saharan folk create Sub-Saharan conditions, just saying...

MONEY.

Well like he mentioned in the video, Akon has done a lot of actual philanthropic projects across Africa particularly in solar energy and access to water. I don't think anyone imagine HE would be the one doing the actual building.

he should be president

No it’s always been that way no generation about it

Never underestimate or undermine someones ability.

Tea 😂😂😂

LOL stop yo you are killing me hahahahahahahaha

At that point just take anybody out to work there

Fren

😂😂💯

REALLY WHITE PEOPLE DO IT ALL THE TIME ⏲️ 🙄

😂😂😂😂😂

Also incredibly common 😅

**Washington D.C. enters this chatroom...**

George Washington did not change the name of "The District of Columbia" to "Washington, D.C.": A greatful fledgling nation did. One whose populace held Washington as a hero to be forever remembered, honored and celebrated.

I was just thinking about this

"Don't buy into *this* scam, buy into ours instead, you're welcome!" - youtube paid sponsors

Meal delivery is always a scam. Buying groceries is the best use of. Money

The realest comment!

@@donovanberserk4993 is the company legit scamming people or are they just selling premade meals that are obviously gonna be more expensive than buying groceries and cooking yourself? lol

This is the same man that wore "drio" on an interview & gave French Montana a fake watch

Nice villain name ngl

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All they need is Gatorade. It makes the plants grow

@@user-ik6rc4wv9k it has electrolytes!

Patty Pat is a little tone deaf.

I commented with another creator who was claiming how great this is because , - as a sm creator, - he didn't have the time to cook. I pointed out how goofy this makes a single dude who works from home look.I think he had really convinced himself that he knew what hard work was.

Who?

@@oneleapforward903 I see what you did there🥁

​@@oneleapforward903horton

Looked like an A.I. thing to me.

I´ve no mercy for dumb people that invested in this crap and expect another outcome!🙄That´s like you put your money onto a fraudster like Trump and loose everything!🤔Sometimes people had to eat sh*t to learn their lessons or better use next time their #CommonSense😏

Noticed that! Ridiculous! 😂😂

@@paulatavares5220 He was like: this dude is booooooring !! 😴💤😂

he is a leech, useless friend of Akon, trying to get fame by sitting next to him at interviews. so stupid

Lmaooo 🤣😂 Laughed so hard!! I know people around him are tired of him

😂😂😂😂

Well said.

I love the word play

You summed it up. It's sad how clueless people have been to believe in someone like Akon. The same old savior fantasies of the past, with a different script. He knows just enough to create plenty of disappointment.

Looked like a nightmare to built elevators in or have parking. But kool wiggly design go brrrrr

Not a freudian slip, just Akon telling you straight up that he's keeping all the money for himself lol

That actually means the opposite. Now his net worth is negative $1B. He has to pay that debt back. 🤦🏾‍♀️

Its a debt trap because the lendir hypes up whoever they loan to as they know the borrower will never pay them back, and/or the project could never be completed in the agreed timeline. That is predatory loaning in a nutshell.

hes financially irresponsible, it's clear. and he criticizes others for being bad at planning... he hasn't even picked up a book about basic biology

​@@re_detachits Chinas African neocolonial strategy

Meanwhile if a white person raps or enjoys any aspect of black culture then all the blacks start asking what have they done for BLM and the black community 😂 Like bruh you ain't done shit for your own community bish

I remember Akon was building schools, waterpipes and electricity... But when I heard about Akon City and his coin I knew things would go downhill 😅 I mean who just wakes up and decides to build a city

Remember Wyclef did the same thing

people being doing too much wow not putting in money in good use ahhh man lol @@DragonLawyer

Didn't he say some shit like 1+1=1 lol

true. but they do use this in Mozambique too.

Its still better than "akoin" lmfao

Don't be silly. MPESA is mobile money and that's all over Africa. That's what he means.

I honestly don't buy any of this BS, this is the first comment implying a bit of understanding of how mega projects look like in Africa, a Billion tribes and Mega corporates playing devide & conquer. don't know if Akon went into this with good intention but he went in thinking he can do it only to get scammed by the big companies that are going to blame him for what happened to the local tribes. and that is simply how it goes in Africa.

Mpesa is the biggest transaction vendor in Tanzania for years,

To be fair, he comes from a culture of people who are still superstitious

@@TocinosAs a Senegalese person, you are spot on!

@@Tocinosyou don't have to be superstitious to understand women do most of the work in reproduction

The way he instantly started explaining what he meant gives a vibe that when he's brought it up in the past a ton of people replied "What the fuck are you talking about??" lol

And if Akon theory was true, why do trans woman need biological woman to produce for them?

💯🎯⬆️

Id say the rug pull had to be probably one of the most open and clear cut examples of this being nothing but a scam.

Them buildings looking like rough endoplasmic reticulum fr

It’s like he asked midjourney to “/imagine cool city in the style of futuristic cool stuff”

People need a standard thing to live in, not a city from the dreams of an architect

Most arrogant people aren't known for their intellect. Akon may think he's Einstein. Its all in his head. His talk on women was ridiculous but can we expect anything less from a fool?

u can creat an egg but u cant creat a seed

Not sure why this guy didn't just enjoy his success / wealth instead of all these stupid scams lol

​​@@BobBob-cx9wmbecause when certain people achieve a level of success, they end up being surrounded by 'yes men' and ego strokers who are looking to hang on to the coat tails of their success. Similar to the remora fish- it attaches itself to a shark and swims around with it so it gets protection and food leftovers. But for someone like Akon who probably has some BPD or narcissistic traits, these people end up convincing people like him that he is the second coming of Christ. He probably believes he can do anything and no one likely ever tells him no. It's a recipe for disaster

You can create a functioning human egg artificially?​@@ooooozzzzz3312

How can anyone get "women can't create babies without a man only men can do that" when it's like complete opposite a woman doesn'r need a man anymore to get pregnant. The guy must be crazy

@@dagfinissocool *Actually you'd still need sperm, which comes from..... a man.* If you are thinking about cloning, that won't work long-term. Over time your DNA would degrade, and the DNA of the clones would further degrade, until you'd reach a point where they're no longer a clone, but a mutation. They'd develop all sorts of medical problems.

​​@@dagfinissocool 'A woman doesn't need a man anymore to get pregnant' Uh...that sperm has to come from somewhere, it's stored, not made in a lab. I'm guess you're talking about needing a man in a relationship you know, which has been the case for awhile. If not, next you're gonna say men can get pregnant, in which case you shouldn't be calling anyone else crazy.

I legit thought it was fresh and fit podcast at first 🤣

@@KaoticReach1999I don’t recall where I read it, and I know it’s not very far along, but I remember reading about an experiment/study performed sometime prior to the pandemic about scientists being able to use the eggs of two mammals (rats?) and do something with them, then implant the result into a female rat (maybe mouse?), and she’d give birth. Not disagreeing with you btw, your comment just made me remember that study.

I was thinking the same thing, Notice how everyone became Bobble heads? Smile and nod and hope he moves on quick!

Exactly it's becoming extremely embarrassing how Africans act like children who needs their parents to save or take care of them. Man up and take care of your own.

Maybe just enough for the sewage pipes lmao but then what? hahaha

I don't know 5 billion USD is probably a trillion in Africa

@@BobBob-cx9wmThats now how it works. Still need material and resources from foreign places

It's concrete bro@@PhyrexJ

@@BobBob-cx9wmit would actually cost more because of the lack of infrastructure in the area.

As a Westerner who was formally fooled by him, I would love to hear more about what African Internet thinks of him

@@NeonSonOfXenonSame!

love to your country and all of Africa from Russia

what did he lie about then?

@@ikke2757watch the video lil bro

Still a shithole

Exactly. I would never tie the knot what someone who believes such nonsense.

If their mother is toxic, I prefer to be absent. There's no way am going to be deprived my peace of mind at the cost of being a present dad 🚮🚮

You are so ignorant and biased you cant even hear a 30 second clip correct you people are the worst

Tell that to a divorce judge. They sure don’t think men are needed in raising kids

Is he absent though ... If he is the one providing for the family?

Exactly

This is honestly what made me love Boondocks. They were saying things that no one would ever dare say… and unfortunately a lot of the stuff they warned us about has come true time and time again, and the masses just eat it up instead of doing any research.

@@vodkaboythis world is full of Riley’s, and only a few Huey’s… if you think of them as symbols of ignorance and logic respectively.

We need boondocks to come back

Everything is chrome in the futureee

The guy wearing a white t-shirt has a word konvict, sounds like a prophecy coming true.

The guy wearing a white t-shirt has a word konvict, sounds like a prophecy coming true.

Fffffuuuuuuuuttttuuuuuuurrrrrrreeee

​@@peeron6829well hpw else are you going to harness all that solar energy

I- 😶😂

Who invest in Africa 😂😂😂

Rememeber when a fan got on stage with him and went to shake his hand? So he picked him up and threw him over his head off the stage right into the crowd. He nearly killed the guy, and wouldn't even apologize. He paralyzed the guy if I Rememeber right. The guy sued and won a bunch of money and akon never gave a shit her nearly killed his own fan.

😩😩😩😭

​@@043Ghxstgood music mannn....❤

Even more easier to make it on a big city far suburb

...from watching too much sci-fi movies

Its because of ego if it looks too basic they going to think that it will make them look lame when they could be building cities that look straight out of Star Trek or Doctor Who since they have millions in the bank🤦‍♂️

especially for the context of africa……

They’re not even smart enough to maintain the infrastructure the Europeans left how could they possibly maintain a futuristic infrastructure?

One of them even looks like a sex toy

Lots of phallic designs 😅

some made up materials and shii lol

All the support structures have diamonds in them so they are extra strong. Bamboo floors with titanium walls. That’s how they are made. Oh and lots of holes so wind doesn’t blow them down

Dang it's not that terrible. Just say it's not your cup of tea

That's one thing I would never neglect. Asking the Lord about how he feels taking a step. Marriage either makes or breaks you. God led me to the right person. The story has been a happy ever after type

Words !!!♥️💯

As humans, we take a lot of things for granted, even God's own point of view, his voice, and his thoughts on things we plan to do.

*Hello there, has this got a thing to do with the digital market and who's the lady you mentioned in the comment?? l'm one who has always wanted to try something like this. How do you help me??*

*Please how can I contact her? I'd love to see for myself*

I laughed so hard I choked on my breakfast. Until I remembered just how powerful he is back at home. This kind of stupidity along with power and dishonesty is extremely dangerous.

😭😭😭

Sad. A scam from Day 1. Especially once crypto currency becomes involved. Chinese government financing. Triple whammy. He's treading dangerously and we all know from history how this will end for him.

The dude heard the phrase “test tube babies” once and has been assuming he can just jizz in a beaker and a baby will form ever since

I wanted Akon City to be a success. But when I heard him explain it, it just sounded so arse backwards. He, China and all his cronys were gonna pretend that a decentralized economy could be built with 6 billion in Chinese money. Money that he controlled! That's putting the cart before the horse. The antithesis of decentralized.

Cuz he wasn’t getting no real industry money in 01, locked up wouldn’t come out for another 2 years

​@@TheDrunkLawyerLol.

He didn’t wire a grid. It’s solar off grid electric that China had already built anticipating western demand that never happened.

This is what I mean. He comes from a wealthy family. He doesn't care about the people of Africa the way he's making it out to. This is all a PR campaign for foreign "investors" to come into Africa as usual and swoop up the land and resources while the gullible people are kept distracted by an Entertainer.

He was running díamonds mines too.

For real. All he had to do was collab with Mr beast. At least that dude is actually helping in a more constructive way.

Dude grew up in New Jersey 😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣because he , coupled with the thieving government had a lot of money to gain from the Chinese

@@drunkenmmamaster419he went to America in his 20s but he did grow up in Senegal for a while

It wasn't really a city. He was basically talking about building what amounts to a "lifestyle center".

Frfr. And not that its relevant but i really hate when deadbeats try to wiggle into their kids life once theyre grown and the hard parts over smh so grateful for my husband ❤

@@snickerdoodles787bro did not have to type the rest of that ☠️🙏

Wait can a mother be a deadbeat too? Because my mother is doing that to me right now​@@snickerdoodles787

A lot of men like Akon have womb envy

​@nataliainoa503 😂 hey you mind if i use this 😂

MPesa is avaliable in 10 African countries

I said the same thing. WTF

a billion africans, you think like 1 percent don't die to house fires?

@@Dodadamnthang21 SMFH the whole country would be dead by now

Maybe he meant like in all of Africa or worldwide hell idk😅

@@jefferykeeton804 no it's Senegal according to him living there before becoming a singer

😹😹😹💀💀💀

😂😂😂😂😂

Its not like China straight up kills people right?.... right? 😅 When these Countries stop paying for whatever reason, watch China move in and build mines etc.

lmao just noticed that

😂🤣😂

Funny thing is he had been on this wave long before those movies came out.

@@AFO_AnalyRics ppl don't lie truth the lie is more funny

Wakanda has more realistic architecture than this concept!

Ikr shit corny asf

😂😂

me: Stay away from da Voodoo, mon! *Bwonsamdi has left the chat*

I will sue him

Wa kon da hahahahaha

Should of just went to Atlanta 😂

It be done it would just require more man power to build it quicker. The question to Akon is, how many construction workers will work to build the city in 4 years? Depending on the number given, im sure he’d spill the beans 🫘 quick

@@lionedheart There’s just no way they were ever going to get enough workers to get all that done in 4 years.

@@Jay-js5ik True that. How many years would it take realistically with enough workers?

Youre just racist​@@Jay-js5ik

Yep i pour concrete impossible just getting all the grading pins shot would take time 4 yrs😂 hes black so he wouldn't lie to us kang😂 scumbags are in every race color ethic background and religion period dont trust people cause they look like you you do not know them

You meant 'ever' right? Egypt's new capital is probably going to cost 4x-8x what the original projections were.

Ugly design, only government and investors can make it happen

why are you a drainer that is verified with no videos

I would rather name my city something like "Smelly Fish and Feed Ville". That is still a better name lol.

Akon should’ve played more Sim City as a teenager instead of playing real-life GTA

The dude is off his rocker. Completely out of touch with reality and frankly is one of the dumbest people I have heard speak. That's truly an accomplishment.

All he had to do was play City skyline or tropico, and he would have known. I tried the district thing on my first game of skyline. I was so dumb. 😅

Bruh.. his species has an average IQ of 65

The whole entire city is within 2 sq miles, u could run from one end to the other in 15 minutes…

Mean not that hard to scam people when public education is basically non existent and still got people that belive in damn magic. Mean the Average IQ in most places in Africa between 60-80, make with that what you will.

u can creat an egg but u cant creat a seed

But u can create an omelette

​@@todatkinson4781this statement is not false.

the earth is not a sphere tho

@@yourdeletedcomment it ain't flat either

That approach works for them in the states

To be fair, he probably made a miniature-scale model of it too. But to be fairer, what is this a city for ANTS?

Indeed ​@@CantTellYou

@@CantTellYou Damn, it does look like an Ant Farm😂

@@thecosmicchild8947 Well when you consider how he thinks babies are made, it is not that far off.

Thank you. I think Patrick is preparing to become a CHinese sh1II like John Cena. Doesn't want to anger his future overlords.

That's their plan 🤷‍♂️ why do you think the Chinese keep buying up land in the U.S.?

China is doing the same thing in the Caribbean, building toll roads there that they will own for the next 100 years.

Very true. They fund your dreams but own your land.

Why was my comment deleted?

Very few people in the West thought this wasn't a scam. It's not like Western governments and banks were lining up to throw money at Akon.

Me who just found out such a thing existed; 🗿

You're part of the minority though. A lot of Africans were congratulating him and seeing it as some kind of a future improvement

A con city?

Um Akon is Senegalese you are claiming to be "African", why couldn't you mention your nationality instead of broad terminology of African? Also why were you waiting for the West to see something instead of your fellow Africans?

😂😂😂Brilliant

Like dubi a sand shit storm

@@stonecoldstonersllc9704 even worse

I love you queen

They take the hammer once to put up the furnitures and pictures on the wall the day they move in and now the woman stuck cooking 3 meals a day 7 days a week for years because, roles. Lol

​​@@FutureCommentary1Not "the woman". "The women". Men in Senegal who are even slightly well off have multiple wives.

But to be fair he grew up very poor so he probably did do some hard labour work

I'm NGL, I'm a woman and I don't mind him having 'traditional preferences' towards gender roles, to each their own. But somehow thinking skipping your kids recitals are cool? Okay Akon, so it's your job to teach your seed how to be men...why are they gonna care if you failed to pay attention or love them in the interim? To ignore their interests? Man is gonna end up with a spoiled punk kid and blame the wife for raising him wrong 😂 Not the years spent without a male role model supporting his interests and teaching him to be a man day to day from the get go. And part of being a man is fulfilling your obligations...if that means your kids football game, cello recital or whatever other school play or hobby involving an audience, you show. If you're a real man.

A hammer is also slang for gun. So you might be wrong about that.

Locked up by who?

You funny, he’s referring to his song locked up

Send me some moonneeyy orderrss🎶 😔

Mf wrote "convict music" having never even seen the inside of a cell

They won't let him out

🤣

Yo wtf 😂😂😂

He obviously had ZERO engineers consulting on this project, it looks ridiculous.

The architecture of Wakanda is ironically far more realistic! He should have just copied screenshots of the movie

All I saw was complete delusion.

It sucks that more and more people today see open mindedness as weak. Not even on a political level, but just trying to understand a conflict from both sides just seems logical.

@@scottoleson1997 Yes too many people are too emotionally charged as their own personal biases are too deep for them to even consider another viewpoint. I personally believe that we always need both side of the stories so we can make a better judgement of the situation or circumstance.

He kinda missed the point about the Chinese debt trap though, which is to gain control over infrastructure in foreign land. Comparing it to purchasing a home in America was kind of a smooth-brain take

@@RodneyDunsworthAgree, I wondered where the similarities are, other than someone else owning something you supposedly bought. Be open-minded, but don't compare an apple to an orange. Also, I wouldn't trust China to build anything rn considering half of their own buildings are crumbling...that's not anti-Chinese, that's just reality. School roof fell and crushed 11 kids. Government wouldn't return the bodies to the families until the family signed waivers saying the government wasn't at fault and the parents wouldn't sue.

@@RodneyDunsworth Other nations that are unhappy with this deal should offer those African countries a better deal to compete with Chinese loans. Nothing stopping them from doing so but they opt to complain about it.

do you understand the idea of collateralized debt. Dont borrow money you dont think you can repay.

@@dracoboomin6511you should probably look into what he’s talking about before talking.

@@dracoboomin6511Go do your research before typing. With all of this access to the internet and you’re still choosing to be ignorant.

The simple solution is to pay you debt.

@@johnroe3915 Were it so easy...

Thats not even remotely true. Hes actually done positive things for Africa

@@treenincove1726 well in this case…it feels like it!

and I know plenty of these narcissists... Who want to stay in the spotlight of importance.

My reply got deleted!! Weird!

@@bethoc3091 yeah, youtube does that

They just want the resources. This is economic colonization.

And why is that ?

@@stonecoldstonersllc9704they build infrastructure for ‘free’, then they give them debt

​@stonecoldstonersllc9704 whoever is owed the debt is the one with power.

@@stonecoldstonersllc9704 Belt and Road initiative. It's explained pretty well in the video actually. Give it a watch.

I think you're better off with majority investment in bitcoin and uprising equities because they always outperform. Alternatively speaking to a certified market strategist can help with pointers on which to acquire.

Wow, massive gains! My partner recently hinted at going the same direction.. What did you invest in?, and who is your investment advisor please?, if you don't mind me asking in dire need of asset allocation.

Elissa Dawn Sharon is the licensed advisor I use. Just research the name. You'd find necessary details to work with to set up an appointment.

Thank you for this amazing tip. I just looked the name up, wrote her explaining my financial market goals.

Everyone should be critical of each other regardless if it's opposite races or the same. It's how we grow as a society and build relationships up with one another. Unfortunately people react very negatively to constructive criticism and chalk you up as a hater.

I hear you. I am Nigerian and I got mocked for calling him a scammer. It was just so unreal.

@@orboakin8074I’m Ghanaian and it’s easier for us to see the fakery before others will.