"Just to be in the same room as him, I felt everything I wanted to accomplish in life had been achieved. That aura... that's how incredible that aura is. We were about to shake up the world, man. You know how you be with somebody and you can't even explain the feeling? I used to sit and think, 'How does somebody sell so many records and dominate a whole business genre, to a point where nobody can be a part of that without associating with you?' The way he thinks... some artists think regional, some think national, I was thinking international. He thinks planets. It's on another level."

- Akon on Michael Jackson.

Not that I have to tell you that he's talking about Michael Jackson. Just by hearing or reading that anyone can guess who he was talking about.