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"Verizon really didn't want to see Akon "Smack That."

 

The communications company scrapped its partnership with the 25-year-old rapper Friday after a video was released that shows him simulating sex onstage with an underage girl during an Apr.12 concert in Trinidad.

 

According to various accounts, 15-year-old Danah Alleyne thought she had won a dance contest when she was invited to dance with Akon, but soon found out that first prize was a close encounter with the Konvicted rapper.

 

The Trinidad Express reported that Akon got seven women to come up and dance with him, promising that the best of the bunch would score a grand-prize trip to Africa.

 

"We've never done this in the Caribbean before, but my DJ assures me that Trinidad has the best winers. Is that true? Well, y'all gotta represent here. Come on up now. Don't be scared," he told the crowd.

 

"I got carried away," Alleyne, a pastor's daughter, said in a public apology last month after a local TV station aired the footage. "I started to dance, as well, but I never thought it was going to be like that. I was shocked. My head was hitting the floor."

 

None of which sat well with Verizon, which will be taking their featured ring tones elsewhere.

 

"This week the partnership ended," Verizon said in a statement to Fox News. "We have music services on our cell phone service and we were promoting him as one of the artists. The other part of the sponsorship was the Gwen Stefani tour, of which he was an opening act. We are no longer sponsoring the tour."

 

The video depicting Akon improvising multiple sexual positions with Alleyne turned up on, and has since been pulled from, YouTube, but it can still be found elsewhere on the Internet.

 

Alleyne wasn't even supposed to be in the over-18 Zen nightclub, where the unofficial dance contest went down. Authorities have since closed the establishment and Trinidadian Prime Minster Patrick Manning has opened an investigation into the show.

 

"I have taken very careful notice of this matter and the owner of Zen owes it to the public to take responsibility," Manning told WorldNetDaily.com. "I will be interfacing with Zen because that kind of thing should never be allowed to happen in this country".

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I guess Akon and Gwen won't be talking anymore. The tour had been going so well, I would say she is going to lose a lot of money from this.

 

I wonder what will happen?! Gwen cannot afford alone to pay for the promo etc

SO glad hes been kicked off, the tw*t. And dont worry about Gwen, think about how many other big names will be wanting to get in with the tour!
This all sucks, Gwen should dump Akon.. Today I saw a video from him onstage doing that thing.. Well even if the girl was 18, even if he was just doing a concert whatever! This should be forbidden, , my gawd,,, Just too stupid!
I like Smack that, honestly. But not to the extent that he brought it too. He deserved it though.
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I was just at her concert on friday june 1st and akon was there.. and the show was f***ing amazinngggg!! akon and gwen were AWESOME.. gwenn more than akon but they were dancing around the stage together.. well i guess she wouldnt want to show anger durring a concert haha.. but anyways it was an awesome concerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtt i would go again in a HEARTBEATT!!!!

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