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Music: Akon interview; Part 2 of 5 ENGLAND: London: GIR: INT Akon (singer and entrepreneur) STUDIO INTERVIEW SOT Presenter SOT: Do you agree that has gotta stop?" Akon (singer and entrepreneur) SOT: "It has to stop" Presenter SOT: "Kanye has got to stop being booked on (rest inaudible) ?" (Presenter and guest talk over each other) Akon (singer and entrepreneur) SOT: "-anyone that feels that feels like they have the right to promote hate for their better agenda - I think it's evil - Period - My whole life has been trying to bring people together, even my career was based on collaborations with other nations, other people. other artists, other genres - I have always tried to bring people together, what reason would I have to damage my character by supporting something like that - it just don't matter. I think that sometimes the media can be very irresponsible with things like that - Because someone like me that's trying to help and change the world, shouldn't be ever be caught up in a position like that, when you know that at the end of the day, my comments aint to ever hurt nobody or in any kinda way disrespect the culture" Presenter SOT: "-presumably you've been worried looking at these headlines, thinking the same thing that's happened to him in terms of being cancelled commercially - you know you are suddenly risking the same thing happening to you?" Akon (singer and entrepreneur) SOT: "Well, my intentions for that matter or for that answer wasn't based on what it was painted to be - You know Kanye makes a remark everyday - you can't keep up with all of the offensive remarks he is making - and I felt that it was very unfair to take that one remark and apply it to my answer - when I had no idea that is what he said 24 hours ago" Presenter SOT: "Do you know him personally? Is he a friend?" Akon (singer and entrepreneur) SOT: "Yeah (nots affirmatively) - I know him personally" Presenter SOT: " So when you say people a...