Akon On Not Working With Lady Gaga: ‘I Cashed Out While She Was Still Hot’

Akon has revealed that he no longer
works with Lady Gaga because she has
already reached her peak.
The ‘Poker Face’ star was originally
signed to Akon’s Kon Live label, but he
ended the deal “before it was too late”.
“I got out while the gooding (sic) was
hot. It’s like a business, you build it to
sell it,” Akon told US DJ Sway on his
radio show.
“When I got it to the peak of where I
felt it couldn’t go nowhere, and there
was nowhere left to go but down, I
cashed out, in other words I sold my
share and got out before it was too late.”
Lady Gaga at the 2013 Jingle Bell Ball
A fellow DJ on the show then added that
the sales for ARTPOP didn’t match
Gaga’s previous successes, to which Akon
replied: “That’s why I got out.”
Lady Gaga’s latest album ARTPOP went
Top 10 in over 30 countries worldwide
upon its release back in November.
The collection landed at number one in
major music markets in the US, UK and
Japan