Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Passage: Afọ atọ Akon nọrọ n'ụlọ mkpọrọ hụrụ ka ọ malitere ịmata ikike egwu ya ma zụlite ekele maka nzụlite egwu ya. Onye egwu egwu Devyne Stephens, onye isi oche nke Upfront Megatainment nụrụ banyere Akon mgbe onye na-eti egwu Lil' Zane kpọtara ya na ụlọ nnwale Stephens, ebe n'oge ahụ hụrụ onyinye dị ka Usher na TLC ka a na-emepe emepe. Mmekọrịta dị n'etiti Stephens na Akon malitere dị ka ọbụbụenyi na nduzi, ebe onye na-eto eto na-eto eto na-akwụsị mgbe niile ịjụ maka ndụmọdụ, Stephens mechara bịanyere ya aka na ụlọ ọrụ mmepụta ihe ya wee malite ịkwado ya nke ọma. E webatara egwu Akon dere na Stephens na Universal's imprint SRC Records. N'ajụjụ ọnụ a gbara ya na HitQuarters SRC A&R Jerome "Knobody" Foster kwuru, "Ihe dọtara uche m ozugbo bụ "Owu na-ama", m wee sị, 'nwa a bụ onye ọrụ <unk> nke a bụ nnukwu ndekọ". Foster na SRC CEO Steve Rifkind ozugbo banyere ụgbọelu nkeonwe gaa Atlanta iji zute nwa okorobịa ahụ na-ese ihe. Akon maara ọrụ Foster dị ka onye na-emepụta Knobody ma ya mere enwere nkwanye ùgwù maka ibe ya na ụzọ abụọ ahụ kụrụ ya. Akon's solo debut album, Nsogbu wepụtara na June 29, 2004. O mepụtara abụ ndị a kpọrọ "Locked Up" na "Lonely", "Belly Dancer (Bananza)", "Pot Of Gold", na "Ghetto". "Locked Up" ruru ọnọdụ nke asatọ na US na nke ise na UK. "Ghetto" ghọrọ egwu redio mgbe DJ Green Lantern gwakọtara ya iji tinye amaokwu sitere n'aka ndị rappers 2Pac na The Notorious B.I.G. The album bụ ngwakọ nke silky Akon, West African-style vocals mixed with East Coast and Southern beats. Ọtụtụ n'ime abụ Akon na-amalite site na ụda nke ọnụ ụzọ ụlọ mkpọrọ na-eme ka ọ na-ekwu okwu "Konvict". N'afọ 2005, o wepụtara otu "Lonely" (nke na-egosi Bobby Vinton "Mr. Lonely"). Abụ ahụ ruru ise kachasị elu na Billboard Hot 100, ma bulie chaatị na Australia, UK na Germany. Album ya rịgoro n'otu ọnụ ọgụgụ na UK na Eprel 2005. Mgbe ọwa egwu The Box nwere ihe iri kacha elu na chaatị kwa izu, nke a gbakọrọ...  Ajụjụ: Ònye gbanweere abụ "Ghetto" iji mee ka ọ bụrụ ihe a ma ama?
DJ Green Lantern