Searching For The Akafella – The Akinyele Video Collection

Inspired by this Martorialist Akineyele Deep Cuts compilation, I began to revisit some of Akafella’s later work, and it turns out that it’s a lot more entertaining now that the bitter taste of disappointment of him abandoning the genius of songs like “Exercise” and “Outta State” for endless variations of songs about poon have since been blotted out by years of excessive liquor consumption.

You may have read a few years back that Ak opened a strip club in Las Vegas called Lollypops and claimed to have clocked $5 million in the first week. According to some comment section gossip, which I always take as fact, “Last I knew he owns a strip club on Queens Blvd. in Queens, NY. He got he start due to a an accident he had years ago & won the lawsuit.” This was followed up by another blog of questionable validity posting this:

“Akinyele made up the story that LolliPop’s strip club made $5-Million in one week for press. His planned worked, but the dude who put up the money is pissed because Akinyele didn’t mention his name in the press. How the fuck can LolliPop’s make $ 5-Million in a week? The place is as big as a cupboard. Dude kicked Akinyele, out of the club and banned him from the spot. He ripped up the contract between him and Akinyele, but Akinyele is going to fight him in court. They did have an agreement between them.”

Back in 2008, Ak told AHH that he’s been in the game for a long time:

“Akinyele: Aww man. My first club I started in probably 1995. I got introduced to that whole game by a friend of mine. I did it first just for fun. Just thinking, “Hey I can probably get girls to come in here and dance,” and I did it for straight up p****y. Then I realized it was a business.”

As for his film work, of Aktapuss: The Sexcom, Amazon customer W. Curtis Mcdonald Jr. wrote:

“This movie was’nt even worth the postage…A few scene with some tight Sistas is the only reason I did’nt throw it out of the window !!!!”

According to this story from last month, Akinyele Adams can now be found working as the general manager of Disco Rick‘s infamous King of Diamonds strip club. Sadly, the reality show that was talked about a few years back never came to fruition…

Anyways, let’s take a look back at Akinyele’s videos:

This wasn’t really a great choice for a single, considering how good the rest of the album was. Sadly the golf beanie look never really took off in the rap community, although I’m sure my dude Dallas Penn has one somewhere in his collection.

Dope song and dope video, this one is well shot and is improved by the addition of numerous “rugged” locations and far less Guess denim.

Kierna Mayo‘s least favorite song wasn’t a single but had a video shot for it. Did her irate Source editorial abort this as a retail release? Possibly the first rap video to be largely shot in a men’s public bathroom.

This song is pretty great, as both Lefrak’s finest and the Dot Father catch more than ample quantities of “wreck”, as the kids once said.

Silk pajamas and some R&B dudes I never heard from again. Why did this get a clip and not “Put It In Your Mouth” though?

Horrible remake of Large Professor’s original Gwen McCrae loop, Ak raps in front of a slideshow of monuments from across the globe while some broad mimes the hook in vaguely Egyptian garb.

Uneek joins Mr. Adams for the raunchy vocals but “Rampage’d” the video shoot? Although based on the quality of the strippers he convinced to appear, maybe she was onto something. If only they’d shoot a video for “Love My Bitch” from Benny Ill aka Anakonda.