After fan speculation had been building for a while, Akon confirmed during a 2022 appearance on ‘The Bootleg Kev’ podcast that he had travelled to Turkey for the procedure. “Oh, yeah, I went to Turkey. I went to Turkey and got a procedure done. Don’t forget, in the beginning, my whole front was loose, it was real thin,” he explained, adding that he spent around seven thousand five hundred dollars on the graft. He said the surgery itself was not painful, but warned, “The painful part is the beginning when they have to numb you up. That numbing ain’t no joke.”

