Akon at 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center - Day 1, Las Vegas, Nevada - 08.01.09

His birth certificate suggests he was born in April, 1977, which makes him 31 - but he refuses to believe he's that old; in 2006, he told one interviewer he was 25.

And the Smack That hitmaker tells the Associated Press he has no interest in checking his age: "All it's going to do is depress me. I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting check-ups and insurance. I don't want that."

The Senegalese star adds, "In Africa... age is not important. They don't care.

"I feel like I'm 21 right now, and I'll be 21 for the next 10 years."

Source: WENN