by Adly Syairi Ramly
AS a lyricist, Aliaune Akon Thiam has a lot of stories to tell.
With Smack That and I Wanna Love You, the fi rst two singles off his latest album Konvicted sitting comfortably high at the Billboard Hot 100 charts, you’ll know that a lot of people are listening, well, grinding and bumping to it to be more precise.
Quite a feat, considering that a couple of years ago, he was doing time in a Georgia state penitentiary for a grand theft auto charge and the only one “listeningwas his notebook, where he wrote down all the lyrics to his music.
