Sway, the man who claimed
that the USA isn’t giving UK rappers enough space to break through in his song
‘Little Derek’ recently won an award for best hip hop act at the Urban Music
Awards in the UK.

 

After the awards
he was interviewed by the ‘hip hop chronicle’, and was asked on a rumour about
him being signed to Akon’s label Konvict Muzik. Apparently, Akon heard
of Sway from DJ Semtex’s mixtape
called ‘Crunk and Grime’ where he was rapping to one of his beats with Young Jeezy on it. Sway stated that the
rumour was true and moved on to telling the story where he and Akon
coincidently met up in Ghana,
West Africa and linked up with each other for
the first time. According to Sway they ended up going to the world cup together
in Germany
with ‘MTV Base’ host Trevor Nelson and carried on discussing some paper work…

 

He was then
asked about what it was like to hang out with Akon and what he had learned from
him, and he said:

 

“Akon is an incredible
person in total… he is a genius, he manages to fit his personal life with his
music life, in with his corporate life, in with his pleasure life and he does
it all. He parties hard, he plays hard and he works harder than anyone I’ve
ever seen in my entire life and I’ve learned a lot from him…”

 

He also talked
about his collaboration with Kardinal
Offishall, a very close friend of his and how they already have a track
together and are working on a new one. Then he announced a potential
collaboration with T-Pain and said
it was going to be a crazy look. In a freestyle of DJ Khaled’s ‘Go Hard’, Sway said something like: ‘Akon never falls
far from a tree, and Akon’s kind of like a father to me, he’ll give me a beat
and say welcome to Konvict Muzik, you are officially a part of the team’.

 

Hmm…I don’t know what to say or think about
this, but I remember when Akon signed T-Pain and Brick & Lace to Konvict Muzik it was officially known
worldwide. Adding more to it, Melvin Brown CEO of the company did not confirm
that Sway was signed to the label but he did however say that Konvict Muzic has
launched an office in London
with the intention of finding the next megastar from the European and African
zone.