纽泽西结束学业后便只身前往亚特兰大的阿肯，年纪轻轻便身兼自己个人首辑的词曲创作与制作人，2004年夏天签入环球唱片大厂祭出首张劲作【TROUBLE/麻烦】满载爆发力，辑中他唱出生活的历历：从非洲到美国、因为讲话有非洲口音而被白人小孩取笑、直到中学都被同学贬称为“Nigga”…，誓言“为尊重/正义而唱”激励着阿肯，Trouble Nobody”道尽A-K-O-N的全部、多曲直捣嘻哈魔咒的嘻哈呛曲让美国西岸嘻哈版图剧动！“Show Out”唱出曾是他心中所谓“垃圾”到如今是他生命全部的“嘻哈音乐”对他的影响；饶舌嘻哈中带点雷鬼慵懒风景的首发单曲“Bananza (Belly Dance)”阿肯要大家抛开一切不开心，只管随漂亮美眉摇摆在SUMMER派对里！单曲“Locked Up”获Billboard节奏蓝调榜TOP6+流行榜TOP8、英国节奏蓝调榜亚军+英国金榜TOP5；好歌不寂寞~单曲“Lonely”空降英国金榜冠军+英国节奏蓝调榜亚军、Billboard流行榜TOP4，这首歌让他的名号红遍英国，甚至全世界。
Lonely I'm so lonely,
I have nobody,
To call my owwnnn
I'm so lonely, im mr. Lonely
I have nobody,
To call my owwnnn
I'm so lonely,
Yo this one here goes out to all my playas out there ya kno got to have one good girl whose always been there like ya
Kno took all the bullshit then one day she cant take it no more and decides to leave
I woke up in the middle of the night and I noticed my girl wasn't by my side, coulda sworn I was dreamin, for her I was
Feenin, so I hadda take a little ride, back tracking ova these few years, tryna figure out wat I do to make it go bad, cuz
Ever since my girl left me, my whole life came 无效in
Im so lonely (so lonely),
Im mr. Lonely (mr. Lonely)
I have nobody (I have nobody)
To call my own (to call my own) girl
Im so lonely (so lonely)
Im mr. Lonely (mr. Lonely)
I have nobody (I have nobody)
To call my own (to call my own) girl
Cant belive I hadda girl like you and I just let you walk right outta my life, after all I put u thru u still stuck
Around and stayed by my side, what really hurt me is I broke ur heart, baby you were a good girl and I had no right, I
Really wanna make things right, cuz without u in my life girl
Im so lonely (so lonely)
Im mr. Lonely (mr. Lonely)
I have nobody (I have nobody to call my own)
To call my own (to call my own) girl
Im so lonely (so lonely)
Im mr. Lonely (mr. Lonely)
I have nobody (I have nobody)
To call my own (to call my own) girl
Been all about the world ain't neva met a girl that can take the things that you been through
Never thought the day would come where you would get up and run and I would be out chasing u
Cuz aint nowhere in the globe id rather be, aint noone in the globe id rather see then the girl of my dreams that made me
Be so happy but now so lonely
So lonely (so lonely)
Im mr. Lonely (mr. Lonely)
I have nobody (I have nobody)
To call my own (to call my own)
Im so lonely (so lonely)
Im mr. Lonely (mr. Lonely)
I have nobody (I have nobody)
To call my own (to call my own) girrll
Never thought that id be alone, I didnt hope you'd be gone this long, I jus want u to call my phone, so stop playing girl and
Come on home (come on home), baby girl I didn't mean to shout, I want me and you to work it out, I never wished Id ever
Hurt my baby, and its drivin me crazy cuz...
Im so lonely (so lonely)
Im mr. Lonely (mr. Lonely)
I have nobody (I have nobody)
To call my own (to call my own)
Im so lonely (so lonely)
Im mr. Lonely (mr. Lonely)
I have nobody (I have nobody)
To call my own (to call my own) girll
Lonely, so lonely
So lonely, (so lonely),
Mr. Lonely, so lonely
So lonely, so lonely, (so lonely), Mr. Lonely
