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August Alsina

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 3, 1992

Hope - I wanted to give to that to the people. When you do that, you have to be willing to be unpopular. It's not the formula for radio songs.

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I'm from downtown New Orleans. Downtown consists of the 7th ward, the 8th ward, the 9th ward.

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I feel like God gave me my life for that reason to share with other people that may be like me or not like me.

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I just tell the truth.

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I'll tell you what bothers me. This music business is so crazy. They think everything is a game, or everything is a fad or trend to win. I see people saying, 'My next album is going to be my honest album, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, my deepest secrets, the soundtrack to my life.'

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I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

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I want to make music to lift the people.

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People like me don't expect to live past 24.

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So many times we take things like eyesight for granted cause it's so natural. We wake up and we see, we wake up and we walk. It's just so natural for us. So, for me not to be able to see for 2-3 days straight, it was hell.

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I think more than anything, my health issues were the biggest eye-opener for me. I'm doing better with taking care of myself, but I don't do my best.

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When you come into this game and this industry, it's kind of like really being born again, because you don't know too much about it.

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When somebody gives their testimony or tells their story, the next person can be motivated or inspired by it. That's all I'm trying to do.

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That's what media do. They make you out to be a monster.

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I'm always so overly transparent that sometimes I'm like, damn, am I saying too much? Should I say this? Should I not say this?

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Just one night at a show in New York, I literally passed out and fell off the stage.

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Pride is a big thing that gets in the way of a lot of relationships.

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When people hear my story, and see that I came from nothing, they'll see that it's possible for them too.

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I'm not a rapper. I stay in my lane.

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I'll tell you what's crazy: Nobody in my family is musically inclined, no form, fashion, anything. I always had some type of connection to music though. This was long before I ever knew that I could sing, or I ever even tried to start singing. It was something different, man, it made me feel some type of way.

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I want to live my life on full. I want to die empty, whatever that means - giving myself to my three kids now, giving myself to love or a relationship, giving myself to my career, devoting myself to being a healthy person. I have to give my full self to something, because that's what makes me feel alive.

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