After scandals as rape dancing a underage girl at a concert, throwing a minor head first down the scene at another performance, and being accused of fabricating his jail sentence (which he’s based his whole convict image on), Akon shows us a new self with his 2008 album Freedom. His thug gard is almost completely down together with the hiphop influences, and a softer, loving, more sympathetic him is presented in a pure pop package. A great strategy move, which also has crafted his best album so far.

‘Could You be The Reason’ is the demo track of Freedom’s ‘We Don’t Care’, which is much better in my opinion. In this old version there’s less background vocals which puts more focus on the magnificent production. Here you’ll notice the heavy disco strings, and without the rapid guitar the bridge works much better as a build up to the powerful hook. This is Akon at his very best.

Akon - Could You Be The Reason

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