Akon Weighs in on Diddy Drama, Points Finger at Music Industry as Bad Influence

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Akon may sing about being "Locked Up," but the singer has no feedback for Diddy as he sits in jail ... telling us the justice system will work the situation out.

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00:00This is the type of indictment you would expect from someone in the mafia.

00:03I don't know that I could keep him off the stand.

00:05He is very eager to tell his story.

00:08They're going to show that video over and over and over

00:11about what happens to women that won't change their stories.

00:15His reputation is over.

00:17The United States government, they start making this case

00:20as a takedown of a successful black man.

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00:30The Downfall of Diddy

00:32When you stepped in the game, you've been one of the biggest people out there.

00:36You know, you rub shoulders with everybody.

00:38So I got to ask you, man, Diddy's lawyer,

00:41you saw this whole thing going on, this drama is playing out in court now.

00:45Diddy's lawyer is saying that the reason that he's being prosecuted

00:49or persecuted by the government is because he's a successful black man

00:53that they're trying to take him down.

00:55What are your thoughts on that level?

00:58Well, I mean, that's a Diddy issue.

00:59I don't have any thoughts on it.

01:01You know what I mean?

01:01Like, stuff like that, you can't really get involved in.

01:04You know, I think the business in itself is taking a shift.

01:09If you look at it from a spiritual perspective,

01:11music hasn't been the greatest role model for our youth.

01:14That's true.

01:14If you look at it these days.

01:15So I just think it's a spiritual shift that's happening.

01:18And we just got to sit back and relax and watch.

01:20Mind our own business.

01:21And whatever people are doing on their personal time

01:23is something they have to deal with on their own.

01:24The idea of the government seeing somebody as a target for their success.

01:30I mean, at least that's how the lawyer's playing it.

01:33It's not the first time we've heard this rhetoric.

01:34You know what I mean?

01:36I mean, yeah, but it's a defense mechanism at the end of the day.

01:39You know, we just got to all sit back and let it play out.

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