Akon considers 'burning' his Michael Jackson tapes
Akon has a stash of recordings he made with the late Michael Jackson, but he’s threatened to “burn” the tapes because he doesn’t want to release any music which was left “unfinished.”
The R&B star’s duet with the “Thriller” hit-maker, “Hold My Hand,” is set to become the first single from Jackson’s upcoming posthumous album “Michael.”
Akon admits he has plenty of other recordings they made together, but he doesn’t want to hang on to them in case he is tempted to rework them – because his idol wouldn’t have wanted him to release incomplete tracks.
He tells MTV.com, “Me and Mike worked on a lot of concepts before he passed. ‘Hold My Hand’ was one of the records that were actually fully complete – the rest of the records are incomplete. They’re just ideas, concepts, harmonies and stuff like that which the world will probably never see because I wouldn’t want to put it out unfinished – so I might just burn it after this interview, ‘coz I might just get tempted to do a remix!”
“I know at the end of the day if it wasn’t fully complete, I don’t think he would see it released that way. I probably wouldn’t ever put myself in a position to make that choice.” (starpulse.com)
