Understandably, Akon has been laying low since he got played by those diligent investigators at The Smoking Gun who found out with a little bit of digging that he had completely made up his past as a high-powered leader of a car theft ring, fabricating a lengthy prison stay and telling any journalist who would listen about his fake experiences. He spoke about the controversy for the first time to MTV today.

"It's an article," he said. "Everyone's entitled to their own opinions and views. At the end of the day, the Konvict movement is keeping me out of jail. It's nothing I want to glorify or go back to. Honestly, I'm glad something like that came out, because it opens the minds of other people who're thinking positive.

"We're doing so many positive things," 'Kon continued. "To go back and focus and put energy on negative things like that, to try to discredit an artist, it makes no sense to me. If there was a motive for it, it would be worth entertaining. I'd rather keep it the way it is and leave the article out there. It only helps me. It's not something I was trying to glorify or turn back to. It was something I was trying to forget. Actually, it worked out for me in a positive way."

So basically, he's a big fat liar who had to manufacture street cred in order to sell records, but the up side is that no one actually cares. Good for him.