Akon is about as gangster as Martha Stewart.

According to The Smoking Gun, Akon only spent about 5 months in jail, as opposed to the four and a half year prison stint he raps about. He was also not the “ringleader” of a “notorious car theft ring,” rather he just stole a car, drove to Georgia and was promptly arrested for driving while black.

In reality, Akon was arrested for possession of a single stolen BMW and held in the DeKalb County jail for several months before prosecutors dropped all charges against him.

So there was no conviction. There was no prison term between 1999 and 2002. And he was never “facing 75 years,” as the singer claimed in one videotaped interview.

What are they going to uncover next? Fifty Cent wasn’t shot, Dr. Dre never took his MCATs, and Eminem is really an albino black person?