Last Sunday (June 3), during a performance in Fishkill, N.Y., 34-year-old R&B artist Akon invited a yet-to-be identified 15-year-old boy from the audience onstage, then proceeded to hoist the young ...

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Three years ago he debuted on the charts with the single "Locked Up." This year, Akon locks up Billboard's top pop artist honor. Sign up ...

BALTIMORE -- Forget record sales. Pop stars are now measured by their omnipresence, and few have mastered that art as well as Akon. Akon on your radio. Akon on your ring tone. Akon on "American Idol." ...

Akon avoided jail time today but was sentenced to 65 hours of community service and ordered to pay a $250 fine in the wake of a June 2007 incident at a concert in upstate New York during which he ...

At last night’s show at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square, irascible rapper Akon (he of heckler-assaulting and fan-molesting fame) seemed inspired to do some good — still high off his “Live Earth” ...

It will be New Jersey's biggest hip-hop concert this summer. It will also be one of the year's biggest hip-hop concerts anywhere. Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning for Summer Jam 2007, featuring ...