Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: Ko nga tau e toru o Akon i roto i te whare herehere i kite ia i tana tiimata ki te mohio ki ona kaha puoro me te whakawhanake i te maioha mo tana papamuri puoro. Ko Devyne Stephens, te perehitini o Upfront Megatainment i rongo tuatahi mo Akon i te wa i kawea mai ai ia e te kaiwaiata Lil 'Zane ki te whare whakaari a Stephens, he waahi i kitea ai nga taranata penei i a Usher me TLC i te wa e whakawhanakehia ana. I tiimata te hononga i waenga i a Stephens me Akon hei hoa me te kaiarahi, me te kaitoi taiohi e tu ana ki te tono tohutohu, ka hainatia e Stephens ki tana kamupene whakaputa ka tiimata te whakapaipai i a ia. Ko nga waiata i tuhia e Akon me Stephens i kawea mai ki te aro o te Universal's imprint SRC Records. I roto i te uiui ki a HitQuarters SRC A&R Jerome "Knobody" Foster i kii, "Ko te mea i aro mai ki a au ko te" Lonely ", ka kii ahau, 'he mana tenei tamaiti <unk> he rekoata nui tenei. " I eke tonu a Foster me te Tumuaki o te SRC a Steve Rifkind ki tētahi rererangi tūmataiti ki Atlanta ki te whakatau i te kaitoi rangatahi. I mohio a Akon mo te mahi a Foster hei kaiwhakanao Knobody na reira he whakaute ki a ratau ano ka pa te tokorua. Ko te pukaemi tuatahi a Akon, Trouble i tukuna i te Pipiri 29, 2004. I whakaputahia e ia nga waiata "Locked Up" me "Lonely", "Belly Dancer (Bananza)", "Pot Of Gold", me "Ghetto". Ko te "Locked Up" i eke ki te 8 o nga waahi i te US me te 5 i te UK. "Ghetto" ka riro i te hit irirangi ka i remixed e DJ Green Lantern ki ngā irava i rappers 2Pac me te Notorious B.I.G. Ko te pukaemi ko te hybrid o Akon o te silky, West African-āhua reo i konatunatua ki te Tai Rāwhiti me te Southern beats. Ko te nuinga o nga waiata a Akon ka tiimata me te tangi o te tatau o te whare herehere me a ia e korero ana i te kupu "Konvict".I te 2005, i tukuna e ia te kotahi "Lonely" (he tauira a Bobby Vinton "Mr. Lonely"). I eke te waiata ki te top e rima i runga i te Billboard Hot 100, a ka eke ki runga i nga mahere i Ahitereiria, te UK me Tiamana. I eke ano tana pukaemi ki te nama kotahi i te UK i te Paenga-whawha 2005. I te wā i runga i te pouaka waiata a te Pouaka i te rārangi tekau o te wiki, i whakaarohia...  Pātai: I tehea tau ka eke te pukaemi ki te tau kotahi i te United Kingdom?
Ko te tau 2005