August Alsina
My legacy is that I will hustle and grind. No one will stop me from hustling. I'll be where God wants me to be.Collection: God
Pride definitely causes a lack of communication.Collection: Communication
Every lesson man, every, every relationship, every experience is a blessing. You learn from it, whether good or bad.Collection: Relationship
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.
I feel like I don't fit in. There's not a lot of outlets for urban music, for black artists who don't have that crossover thing going early on.
I have trust issues.
I want to make music to lift the people.
I'm not a rapper. I stay in my lane.
That's what media do. They make you out to be a monster.
As an artist, I struggle with how much of myself to give to the people. How much I want my personal business to be judged.
Nothing is held back on 'Testimony.'
When people hear my story, and see that I came from nothing, they'll see that it's possible for them too.
Who influenced me the most? I'd have to say Lauryn Hill, I think she influenced me the most.
No one is doing what I'm doing and I'm not doing what they're doing.
I just feel like no one is the same.
I like Kendrick a lot.
People like me don't expect to live past 24.
People will throw stones and hide their hands and then get back and play victim.
Some days I'm up, some days I'm down. But I think one thing that does get you moving is hope.
I could never say that I regret being given the gift of experience and love.
We live in a crazy world. You don't know what's going to happen.
All I have is my truth, and all I have is my truth to stand on it.
I don't have any reason to lie about anything.
Always stand 100 with yourself.
I never want to be the one causing a ruckus. I never want to be problematic in any kind of way.
Reality is I'm sick all the time.
I always had a love for music, but I was watching 'Sister Act 2' with Lauryn Hill, and I heard her sing, and I was just like, 'Man, I want to do that.' The whole movie overall was an inspiration for me.
Nothing scares me. Nothing actually shocks me anymore.
I've had fans break into my hotel rooms.
I feel older than I really am. It's because of the cards I was dealt.
Of all my childhood memories, I don't have any good ones.
The people that you think are supposed to be there for you and be happy for you - instead they want to tear you down.
We all battling different things. Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music.
I have a liver disease where my autoimmune system is fighting against itself.
People can have whatever ideas that they like. But what I'm not OK with is my character being in question.
Contrary to what some people may believe, I'm not a troublemaker.
I don't like drama. Drama actually makes me nauseous.
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.
My music is a gift from God that saved my life.
I just tell the truth.
It's easy for people to talk about the negative.
Having life taken away from you for a little while forces you to be more open-minded and to go live.
I had over 10 seizures.
I came into the game showing you that I'm no angel. I'm not perfect and this is why I tell people off the top.
I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.
I'm a human being and I'm a man, so don't disrespect me.
Product 1' was really my introduction into the game.
It always baffles me how people can lift you up so high and make it seem like they love you then you do one thing wrong and it's all of a sudden you the devil and you evil and everything you do from then on isn't right.
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.
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.