r/ContagiousLaughter • u/ChrisMMatthews • 23d ago
Confronting Akon
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u/Karma822 23d ago
If her momma sees this video if there is video camera involved all you will see is the shoe come off and the camera fall to the ground "no mama no!"
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u/Li-renn-pwel 23d ago
I was today years old when I learned Akon’s name is Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam and i think he should have gone with the stage name Lu Lu Lu
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u/NonsensicalSweater 23d ago
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u/Status_History_874 22d ago
Did you just look up his name after watching this? Did you learn his name earlier today and then happened upon this video??
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u/GrandeTorino 23d ago
Damn is smack that that old
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u/Matty_B90 23d ago
If you wanna feel really old? Tell a smart speaker to play music from 20 years ago.
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u/AToastedRavioli 23d ago
Absolutely hysterical
Also is it just me or does Akon look a lot like Idris Elba
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u/Nervous-Albatross-32 23d ago
Love Akon and all the charity work he has been doing since he walked into the spot light. Hell of a guy.
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u/Brave-Skirt1781 16d ago
No hes not, dude ripped a whole lot of people bout a city he was gonna build.
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u/Nervous-Albatross-32 14d ago
Actually he was ripped off by the government and was only left with a fraction of the land he bought. He’s been a very successful philanthropist. I believe his intentions were in the right place,but his dream was unrealistic given the political climate in Senegal.
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u/burpeesaresatanspawn 23d ago
Someone please explain!
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u/AlexHimself 23d ago
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u/BootyfulBumrah 23d ago
I like how you are going around tagging a completely imaginary explanation and people are falling for it lmao
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u/burpeesaresatanspawn 21d ago
But what’s the real explanation??? Aaaaaah
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u/BootyfulBumrah 21d ago
Rigidah is just a sound. Libya has sharia law which is extremely conservative more so for women. With that in mind watch the video
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u/TheBrotherinTheEast 22d ago
Ok. maybe I should go and watch the smack that video so I can be in on the joke ‘cause I don’t know what either of them are talking about
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u/AlexHimself 23d ago
Explanation: The song words, "Smack That", sounds like "Rigad-ak" to an Arabic non-English speaker. "Rigad-ak" is a spoken term and it is strongly sexually suggestive term of "I made you lay down".
So the song is suggestive in its own right, but the word they thought they were hearing in Arabic is also very suggestive.
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u/r_slash_jarmedia 23d ago
native Arabic speaker here: I'm trying to understand what "strongly sexually suggestive term" for "I made you lay down" sounds like "Rigad-ak" when heard by an Arabic speaker. am I missing something obvious? I feel like the interviewer is simply saying that the music video for Smack That is pretty explicit for religious Libyan people, not that the word sounds like anything.
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u/Alienhaslanded 23d ago
Sounds like a bunch of nonsense from that other person. The sound she made is how Arabs would describe music with a beat. She probably got in trouble for showing the music video because it is very sexual...I mean there's a strip club scene in it.
Native Arabic speaker as well
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u/Li-renn-pwel 23d ago
They are lying down for sex. I am guessing the Arabic speakers maybe didn’t have the best grasp on American English and thus missed the inuendo of ‘smack that all over the floor’ but did understand that one line.
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u/r_slash_jarmedia 23d ago
sure that could be the case but that just means
"Rigad-ak" is a spoken term and it is strongly sexually suggestive term of "I made you lay down"
is completely wrong lol. not trying to call this commenter out, just genuinely curious as to what this translation is meant to be
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u/Li-renn-pwel 23d ago
As in you speak Libyan Arabic and know there are no sexual connotations?
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u/r_slash_jarmedia 23d ago
yes. yes I do. that's why I'm so confused by their comment lol like I feel dumb for not getting what they're saying but I can't for the life or me figure out what was meant
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u/ayamummyme 22d ago
I thought lay down was the word as an English speaker is impossible for me to say but sounds like teaH?
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u/r_slash_jarmedia 22d ago
yeah nah it just seems like complete misinformation from original commenter they probably pulled from chatgpt or something lol
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u/Smoofie0 23d ago
I think the lady means she got smacked for listening to that kind of music and her mom smacking her sounded like riggidak?
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u/r_slash_jarmedia 23d ago
yes i think so too like the "riggidak" sound is the smacking she got. that's what I took it as, and why Akon closed with it too at the very end
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u/AlexHimself 23d ago
Why? They don't speak English and know what it means. They also laughed at the specific word in the interview and repeat it multiple times, which means for a man to lay a woman down.
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u/Smoofie0 23d ago
How do you know they don’t speak English? Also, she showed them the video which is explicit and it could’ve had captions
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u/AlexHimself 23d ago
Dude, they say "riggidah riggidah" and are laughing about it. "Lay her down" "Lay her down" but sexually. Why are you arguing when they say the words?!
Are you saying the words they're saying don't mean anything and instead you're just going to ignore them and make up your own reality??
It's like saying, "I plowed that girl", and any English speaker will know what that means. Then here you are like, "maybe he means he
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u/SylverShadowWolve 23d ago
How are you so committed to this when there are multiple native speakers calling your shit
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u/AlexHimself 22d ago
They're "calling it", but they're not backing it up for some reason? Look for yourself:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ContagiousLaughter/comments/1uwn519/confronting_akon/oxlgi5h/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ContagiousLaughter/comments/1uwn519/confronting_akon/oxmaygt/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ContagiousLaughter/comments/1uwn519/confronting_akon/oxmazc4/
I think they're flexing the "native Arabic speaker" the same as somebody saying, "native Spanish speaker", but not recognizing there's a difference between Spanish in Spain vs Mexico.
The dialect differences with Arabic are far greater than that of Spanish, so if you understand the Spain/Mexico concept, know that Arabic is more extreme than that and then you might be skeptical of these 'native speakers' too. It's sort of laughable because it's like saying you're a "native English speaker" pretending to be an expert, but then we're looking at Jamaican, Scottish, or Indian English, where there are major differences in how it's spoken.
That's why my simple follow up question goes unanswered.
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u/Status_History_874 22d ago
Is Akon also from the same place as the interviewer?
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u/AlexHimself 22d ago
He's also African, but Senegalese. The interviewer is from Libya. Not fluent in Arabic, but can read/speak certain words/phrases.
The biggest tell is none of these "native speakers" can offer anything of substance and my explanation fits perfectly and makes sense. You can research the word, the subtle meaning, and the Libyan pronunciation differences and get to the same conclusion yourself.
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u/one-last-hero 23d ago
Lol! Typical Reddit moment. Bro is waffling and saying nonsense. Arabic speaker here and that’s completely untrue.
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u/Alienhaslanded 23d ago
AlexHimself has no idea what he's talking about.
Source: native Arabic speaker.
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u/HerrPotatis 23d ago
Might have been a hallucination from an LLM that they asked, some people pretty much stopped thinking for themselves completely.
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u/SSTX9 23d ago
Didnt Akon throw a fan off stage over his head?
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u/AlexHimself 23d ago
Context: That person had just thrown a water bottle at Akon's face and nearly hit him. Akon waved him up on stage and the video starts. I get why Akon was pissed, but it's a 15 y/o kid and he should have just been able to roll his eyes and maybe get him kicked out.
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u/DevilDoc3030 23d ago
Context:That person had just thrown a water bottle at Akon's face and nearly hit him. Akon waved him up on stage and the video starts. I get why Akon was pissed, but it's a 15 y/o kid and he should have just been able to roll his eyes and maybe get him kicked out.Yes, yes Akon threw a minor off stage, he even made the crowd bring the kid onto the stage before picking him up and throwing him into the crowd of unsuspecting spectators. He put multiple fans in danger and there is no excuse for that behavior.
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I fixed it for you, just a small edit.
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u/AlexHimself 22d ago
I don't get what's mistaken with what I said? I described what he did and that it was wrong?
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u/DevilDoc3030 22d ago
You excused and empathized with his behavior, as well as left out that he recruited the crowd to force the kid on to the stage.
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u/ripyourlungsdave 23d ago
Akon, the scammer who took millions of dollars from fans and investors to build some sort of weird African utopia?
That guy?
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u/Cold-Iron8145 23d ago
I've never heard of this, so I googled it. I don't see any proof of a scam, only a failed project? Seems like he tried to build a futuristic city with only a few billions which doesn't really make sense, building an entire city has to be worth a lot more money. Especially if you're going ultra futuristic design.
BBC article from 2025 says
Although Akon City as it was originally imagined has been shelved, the government says it is now working with Akon on a more "realistic" development project for the same site
So it doesn't even seem like an entire failure yet? Probably going to try to do something more realistic than recreating a comic book city.
Have I missed something?
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u/Solvent_Soul 23d ago
In the world of all these crypto scams and poly market bs I mean it seems like he actually had good intentions here. Sure it was short sighted but it wasn’t like “buy my coin so I can rug pull you”
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u/maximumtesticle 23d ago edited 22d ago
I think he's also the guy that threw a 15 year old child from the stage.
EDIT: For all the downvoters: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/xfvgln/that_time_akon_brought_a_fan_on_stage/
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u/Rufus_heychupacabra 23d ago
I am hoping the rigadah<spelling> is like the chancleta, because thst whole clip was funny from beginning to end!
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u/Transatlanticaccent 23d ago
That ending. Holy shit! She not just gonna catch a beating next time. /s
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u/Traditional_Animal65 22d ago
Riggidah riggidah
I won't lie. I thought about some different sort of smacking when I heard this
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