{"id":1230599,"date":"2022-10-21T10:57:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T10:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/21\/akon-reveals-he-got-a-hair-transplant-worth-75000\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T10:57:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T10:57:45","slug":"akon-reveals-he-got-a-hair-transplant-worth-75000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/21\/akon-reveals-he-got-a-hair-transplant-worth-75000\/","title":{"rendered":"Akon reveals he got a hair transplant worth $7,5000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/334945.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Akon\u00a0has confirmed that he got a hair transplant, and it cost him $7,500.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Bootleg Kev, the singer admitted he went to Turkey for\u00a0\u201ca procedure\u201d to restore his hairline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the beginning, my whole front was loose, it was real thin,\u201d the 49-year-old told Kev, who asked if it was a painful procedure. \u201cNah, no. The painful part is the beginning when they gotta numb you up. That numbing ain\u2019t no joke. They stick a needle like this big, non-stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akon confirmed that they took a graft, and overall he appears happy with what the doctors did despite the pain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks amazing,\u201d he added, to which Kev joked that Tory Lanez should\u2019ve gone to the same doctor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told him,\u201d the artist\u00a0replied. \u201cI said, \u2018Tory should\u2019ve come to my man.\u2019 Like, bro, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"p_YlpRgnZbY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Akon on Getting Hair Transplant, He Told Tory Lanez Go To His Doctor\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p_YlpRgnZbY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>He went on to suggest Turkey is known \u201cfor two things,\u201d one of which is hair and the other is teeth. \u201cThey\u2019re really good on both,\u201d he said, later divulging that he can\u2019t grow hair on his face.<\/p>\n<p>Akon also took to social media to respond to\u00a0the memes that have been circulating about his hairline and took all of the jokes in good stride.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I know my hairline can\u2019t be worse then this \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FLq4FHgX2P\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/FLq4FHgX2P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AKON (@Akon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Akon\/status\/1582261045011566592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Akon has recently been on a run of rather revealing interviews, and his admission of his hair transplant comes not long after\u00a0he admitted\u00a0he employed his brother Abou \u201cBu\u201d\u00a0Thiam to perform as his double when he couldn\u2019t make a show.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, he also said that he had plans to open music schools in\u00a0Africa with Michael Jackson, but then the iconic popstar passed away before they could go through with the idea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/akon-reveals-he-got-a-hair-transplant-worth-75000\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akon\u00a0has confirmed that he got a hair transplant, and it cost him $7,500. In an interview with Bootleg Kev, the singer admitted he went to Turkey for\u00a0\u201ca procedure\u201d to restore his hairline. \u201cIn the beginning, my whole front was loose, it was real thin,\u201d the 49-year-old told Kev, who asked if it was a painful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2147,5122,51,2484,4941],"class_list":["post-1230599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-akon","tag-hair","tag-reveals","tag-transplant","tag-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}