Akon reflects back on how Eminem came up with the singer's hit song 'Smack That'

Akon is seemingly grateful to Eminem for producing him a hit song Smack That. 

American singer, 49, spoke about his collaborations with Eminem and Dr. Dre on the latest episode of The Bootleg Kev Podcast which aired on October 15.

"It’s interesting because every record I ever put out, I actually produced, except Smack That. Eminem produced that record. Isn’t that crazy? He always had them small little sounds, it was something minute, but it felt like Eminem."

While reflecting back on 'not knowing' that Eminem was good at music production and how his most popular song Smack That came out, he shared.

"Actually, I went to visit Em in Detroit, he was like, "What'd you wanna do?" I said, "Em, I wanna do whatever you wanna do. I want to come into your world". Because I bring you into my world, it won’t be no different from what’s out there now. He was like, "Alright, I got some beats". I said, "Nigga, you produce?! Well, play me some tracks!" He gave me a folder with, like, 30 tracks in there. And out of 30, I picked five. And I recorded all five, and the one that stood out was "Smack That". I was like, "Bro, this is it". Once he heard my concept to it, he was like, "Yo, I’m jumping on this one". And I said, "You know what, if he jumps on this one, this will be a single." 

He further said, "And that’s the only one we ever had together, besides all those we did. But I still have them. I literally still have those records today. These are all the records that’s gonna drop in the future."