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Akon was sent to jail for three years for a car-theft charge. This however, wasn't the first time he was sent to jail. Despite this, he used the time spent behind bars working on his music ideas. Upon release, he began writing and recording his own songs in his home studio, which lead to his songs being sent to SRC/Universal where his career 'kicked off'. He released his first album, entitled "TROUBLE" which featured the songs 'Locked Up', 'Lonely', 'Bananza (Belly Dancer)' 'Pot of Gold' and 'Ghetto'. On the Australian charts, 'Locked Up' hit #33 and on the US Hot 100 it hit #8. 'Lonely' and 'Belly Dancer' were the popular singles in Australia peaking at number 1 and number 23 in the Aus singles charts. Overall,

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