LMAO…hilarity at its best!  Pop star and music entreprenuer, Akon, took the idea of Coming To America a little too far in highschool. During his episode of MTV’s ” When I Was 17″, he recalled how his fashion sense and a few lies had his classmated thinking he was indeed an African prince.

“Dashikis and the Air Jordans — that was Akon’s style,” ‘Kon’s brother Omar chimes in.

Akon may have schooled his American friends on international style with his look, but the soon-to-be-star took things a step further, hoodwinking friends into believing he was royalty from a far-flung locale.

“I think I was a young hustler at that time. I told everybody, ‘I’m a prince!’ ” Akon remembers.

“People just didn’t know any better so they believed that we were princes from Africa,” Omar adds.

The singer took a page directly from the classic ’80s Eddie Murphy/ Arsenio Hall comedy about a prince trying to find his way in the U.S.

“I would play off that, because when ‘Coming to America’ came out years ago, it felt like that was the thing to do,” said Akon, who was 17 in the late ’90s.

“He had all the girls thinking he had all this money,” his brother Bu adds.

“That was my thing in high school. [People would say], ‘Yeah, he a prince; you know he a prince, right?’ Like ‘Yeah, I’m a prince, see?’ ” ‘Kon says, flashing a wide grin. “That was fun!” he cackles.

 

Here’s the video episode that aired on Saturday: