It’s been 16 years since Akon unveiled his R&B hit, “Smack That,” and the 49-year-old star shared how Eminem got here to be a producer in addition to a featured artist on the monitor.
Whereas showing on the Bootleg Kev podcast this week, Akon mentioned his previous collaborations with the celebrity rapper. “It’s attention-grabbing as a result of each document I ever put out, I really produced, besides ‘Smack That,’” he defined. “Eminem produced that document. Isn’t that loopy? He at all times had them small little sounds, it was one thing minute, however it felt like Eminem.”
Akon went on to confess that he didn’t anticipate Em to be such a great producer. “He gave me a folder with, like, 30 tracks in there. And out of 30, I picked 5. And I recorded all 5, and the one which stood out was ‘Smack That.’ I used to be like, ‘Bro, that is it’,” he recalled.
“As soon as he heard my idea to it, he was like, ‘Yo, I’m leaping on this one’. And I stated, ‘You realize what, if he jumps on this one, this shall be a single,’” he continued. “And that’s the one one we ever had collectively, in addition to all these we did. However I nonetheless have them. I actually nonetheless have these information at present. These are all of the information that’s gonna drop sooner or later.”
“Smack That,” which was featured on Akon’s 2006 album, Konvicted, peaked at No. 2 on the all-genre Billboard Scorching 100 dated November 4, 2006, and spent 30 complete weeks on the chart.
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