

His verses are deeply indebted to love and love lost, but the latter album deals more explicitly with his failing health and his subsequent rebirth, like on the standout single, “Today.” Though Alsina feared for his life, his challenging upbringing in New Orleans readied him for most obstacles: “We’re really from the trenches.

Picking up on his first two LPs, 2014’s Testimony and 2015’s This Thing Called Life, 2020’s The Product III: stateofEMERGEncy reintroduced the singer as a powerful lyricist with an angelic voice. With the recent controversial statement made by August Alsina regarding his relationship with Jada Pinkett Smith which has got the internet buzzing for some time now, the singer has shared a new song called Entanglements where he defines what entanglements means to him with the help of Maybach Music boss, Rick Ross. The No Love singer’s name has recently become synonymous with negative press, due to his decision to reveal his past. Carter.” While it’d be easy to justify taking a step back after such a health scare, Alsina has used his brush with death as a motivator. The star got his well-deserved flowers this Mother’s Day. Alsina, born in 1992, opted for the former, and he gave New Orleans its biggest boost in rap visibility since Lil Wayne rapped about the Hollygrove neighborhood on “Mr. August Alsina - Song Cry (Explicit) (Official Music Video) DJ Khaled - Hold You Down ft. August Alsina is a New Orleans native R&B singer known for hit songz like Ghetto featuring Rich Homie Quan and Make It Home featuring Jeezy. After being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in 2017 that explained a host of health issues he was facing, the New Orleans-born singer/songwriter was faced with a decision: He could either change his lifestyle, prioritizing his career over the partying, or not and possibly squander his immense talent. August Alsina’s career almost ended just as it was getting started.
