*Akon has written and recorded a song that addresses the fallout surrounding his on-stage simulated sex acts with a 14-year-old girl in Trinidad.
“As life goes on, I start to learn more and more about responsibility,” he says in the intro to “Put the Blame On Me,” which was leaked to Ryan Seacrest’s radio show on Los Angeles station KIIS-FM. (Listen to the track here.)
“I realize that everything I do is affecting the people around me,” he continues. “So I want to take this time out to apologize for things that I’ve done; things that haven’t occurred yet; things they don’t want to take responsibility for.”
Akon later apologizes to his former tour partner Gwen Stefani, who was affected when Verizon pulled out as a sponsor due to his antics in Trinidad. He sings “Sorry for the hand that she was dealt, for the embarrassment that she felt.”
The Senegalese singer also addresses the forces that allowed the girl into a club for grown folks.
He sings: “Just a little young girl trying to have fun/Daddy should’ve never let her out that young/Sorry for clubs and getting shut down/I hope they manage better next time around/How was I to know she was underage/in a 21-and-older club they say.”
There was no mention of the teen boy he allegedly flung into the crowd during a recent concert in Fishkill, NY.
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