RUSHES: Music: Akon interview

Music: Akon interview; Part 2 of 5ENGLAND: London: GIR:INTAkon (singer and entrepreneur) STUDIO INTERVIEW SOTPresenter SOT:Do you agree that has gotta stop?"Akon (singer and entrepreneur) SOT:"It has to stop"Presenter SOT:"Kanye has got to stop being booked on (rest inaudible) ?"(Presenter and guest talk over each other)Akon (singer and entrepreneur) SOT:"-anyone that feels that feels like they have the right to promote hate for their better agenda - I think it's evil - Period - My whole life has been trying to bring people together, even my career was based on collaborations with other nations, other people. other artists, other genres - I have always tried to bring people together, what reason would I have to damage my character by supporting something like that - it just don't matter.I think that sometimes the media can be very irresponsible with things like that - Because someone like me that's trying to help and change the world, shouldn't be ever be caught up in a position like that, when you know that at the end of the day, my comments aint to ever hurt nobody or in any kinda way disrespect the culture"Presenter SOT:"-presumably you've been worried looking at these headlines, thinking the same thing that's happened to him in terms of being cancelled commercially - you know you are suddenly risking the same thing happening to you?" Akon (singer and entrepreneur) SOT:"Well, my intentions for that matter or for that answer wasn't based on what it was painted to be - You know Kanye makes a remark everyday - you can't keep up with all of the offensive remarks he is making - and I felt that it was very unfair to take that one remark and apply it to my answer - when I had no idea that is what he said 24 hours ago"Presenter SOT:"Do you know him personally? Is he a friend?"Akon (singer and entrepreneur) SOT:"Yeah (nots affirmatively) - I know him personally"Presenter SOT:" So when you say people a...