In a recent video interview with TMZ, R&B star Akon offered his thoughts on Jay Z and Beyoncé, and their allegedly crumbling marriage. The 41-year-old "Don't Matter" singer believes that the power couple's high level of secrecy may actually be hurting them, as it gives off the perception of their relationship being "corporate" and raises inaccurate speculation.
"Their relationship has been more of a business to the outside world than an actual relationship," he says, "Now, to them, it may be a relationship, but it was presented to the world...and it feels more corporate...If you become a public figure and you have a relationship, your relationship also becomes public, so if you don't open up to the public and let people understand what this is, they will naturally speculate, and those speculations are going to be completely opposite, completely wrong of what really be happening. So now you gotta come back to answer or reply... Sure, it's no one's business, but it becomes a business of the public when you're a person of public interest." It's worth noting that the TMZ reporter vocally agrees with this notion of a celebrity's private business becoming public business.
While their relationship may be in crisis, Akon does see an upside to the problems that Jay Z and Beyoncé are going through. In his opinion, their struggles are going to end up being beneficial to their music, sayin "What they going through is gonna make great music, it's gonna make better music, believe it or not, because now they have more content to actually speak about because they're not the only ones dealing with it. People are dealing with exactly the same thing."
You can check out the entire interview right here:
