Akon talks about new cd, jail
"I don't mind talking about my past... OK, I played around until about '98 before I realized, 'OK I've got to get some money. I'm broke.' That's when the hustler mentality came out in me. I got caught up in cars and this and that. Kept going in and out of jail. Three months here, six months there, two weeks here. And it was to a point where I was like, 'This really doesn't make any sense. What am I doing?" POUYA DIANAT / pdianat@ajc.com
