While four more records produced by Eminem (but seemingly bare of Marshall’s verse) are still locked in Akon’s vault, songs that were meant to be buried together with “Detox” found their way to the public, and Akon cannot be happier about it: These are all the records that’s gonna drop in the future. I literally still have those records today. And that’s the only one we ever had together, besides all those we did. And I said, “You know what, if he jumps on this one, this will be a single”. Once he heard my concept to it, he was like, “Yo, I’m jumping on this one”. And I recorded all five, and the one that stood out was “Smack That”. I said, “Nigga, you produce?! Well, play me some tracks!” He gave me a folder with, like, 30 tracks in there. He was like, “Alright, I got some beats”. Because I bring you into my world, it won’t be no different from what’s out there now. He just wanted that joint:Īctually, I went to visit Em in Detroit, he was like, “What’d you wanna do?” I said, “Em, I wanna do whatever you wanna do. However, Akon didn’t even know that Eminem was good at production when he came to him to seek collaboration. Isn’t that crazy? He always had them small little sounds, it was something minute, but it felt like Eminem. It’s interesting because every record I ever put out, I actually produced, except “Smack That”. Dre on a new The Bootleg Kev Podcast episode: It is the 15th most streamed track in Marshall’s catalogue and Akon’s most streamed song ever.Īkon spoke about his collaborations with Eminem and Dr. “Smack That”, released in 2006 for Akon’s album “Konvicted”, has over 570 million streams on Spotify and over 950 million views on YouTube. Every but his biggest hit, “Smack That”, produced by Marshall.

It is not a known fact, but the artist says he has also produced every single record he ever released. Akon is a Grammy-nominated and platinum-selling rapper, songwriter, singer, and producer.

Akon all songs list