what if I broke a monogamous agreement what if I told you I lied and didn't
mean it before August Alsina would set the world ablaze with claims that he had
an affair with the very married Jada pinkett-smith I actually sat down with
will and had a conversation due to the transformation from their marriage to
life partnership that they've spoken only several times and you know not
involving romanticism mm-hmm he gave me a blessing before August Alsina would
clock in over two million subscribers on YouTube 6.3 million followers on
Instagram and another million followers over on Twitter at the time of this
recording just for the record I can't get my Twitter to pop for the life of me
so be sure to go over there and give me a follow and sit on 20k for like a year
before August Alsina would pick up a bt Award for Best New Artist in 2014 and
would land a spot on the double XL freshman class list that same year I
know that with with the magazine is vacated to rappers and I'm not a rapper
not by a long shot but I have lived I'm a room before August Alsina would be
diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that affects his liver and resulted in
him collapsing on stage at the time of this recording the biggest news story
circulating the hip hop gossip channels is August Alsina
speaking out on his alleged affair with Jada Pinkett Smith I mean the means
there absolutely everywhere his interview is currently trending on
YouTube his name it's high on the Google Trends charts and for those who don't
keep up to date on everything hip hop related well a lot of people have been
asking who the hell is August Alsina well I'm gonna give you guys some Kohl's
notes real quickly he lives through Hurricane Katrina he was kicked out his
mom's house he was homeless he turned to drug dealing he had a brother who was
killed and his future was looking pretty bleak with the exception of some videos
popping up on his YouTube channel I mean this kid was singing on there when he
was only 14 years old i'm afaid
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and hit that Bell boom august anthony Alsina jr. was born on september 3rd
1992 in New Orleans Louisiana to August Alsina senior and Sheila Alsina now his
mom she worked two jobs to take care of him his brothers Melvin Jamal Travis and
his sister Nikki she worked mainly as a dental assistant now as her dad well he
wasn't in the picture for long dealing with the drug addiction the only picture
of his picture there he had a stepfather who came into his life when he was
around 1 years old but he too struggled with a crack cocaine addiction now the
family they lived in downtown New Orleans specifically in the seventh Ward
downtown in Kenner now following the 2005 Hurricane Katrina well his mother
she relocated him to Houston Texas that was for a better life we'll get into
that a little bit later in this video eventually he did lose his father to
substance abuse no there was no member of August's family who were musically
inclined but for him there was always a strong connection to music ever since he
can remember now we didn't even know that he could sing but something about
the film's sister act 2 and a performance by Lauren Hill singing a
rendition of his eyes of a sparrow well that kind of motivated to give it a go
for himself talking about his earlier years as a singer he told complex when I
started singing I was going to school I remember some of the people in school
singing and they had a choir and I would just watch and listen finally I started
at least attempting to try and do what they were doing when I was younger we
started going to church I can't say that we were always you know the most
church-going people but obviously something
Lauren Hale singing in a church and then him going to church and wanting to sing
it all clicked and he started doing it himself
now of course he was also big into rap listening to juvenile Lil Wayne hot boy
Soulja slim to pocket more just as he was finding his own style and voice well
his family they made that drastic decision to uproot him and move him to
Houston Texas and this was in hopes that his stepdad could get a clean break he
get off drugs now to keep up with his newfound passion for musically begged
his mother for a webcam so he could post a few videos of himself singing to
YouTube so let's take a look at a 14 year old August Alsina and these are the
videos like I could show you without us getting contact Playboy record labels
though it's a cover may be claiming everything what a fuckin fantasy and
though he didn't mean nothing it happened in 2007 he uploaded his
first video on YouTube comprised of a cover of a song by Lyfe Jennings titled
hypothetically from the album life 2 6 8 1 9 2 thereafter he uploaded many video
covers of others including the works of Musiq Soulchild and initially he clocked
in just thousands of views but then all of a sudden he was pulling in hundreds
of thousands of views and you know when you're like 14 years old a lot of people
watching on YouTube well you kinda made it what's the secret to work hard this
was back in 2006 we're talking their early days of YouTube and the kid he
started to gain himself a fall away now he was also getting recognition and
attention for his talent but things at home they weren't any better with them
now in Houston no stepfather his drug addiction it
continued to the point where the family they were missing mortgage payments and
then they had no money for food the house would be him because my step pops
II would be didn't so everything for some drugs where's the TV on the wall no
things got so bad that the kids clothing they were actually sold to support his
drug habit now fed up and his mother not supporting his ambitions to make
something of himself as a singer well it's 16 years old he decided to
fend for himself and he made them move back to New Orleans but for some time he
was actually homeless homeless for me I was sleeping in the Cana stove I was
homeless and he means homeless but in the store did they know you were there
yet I knew they know oh it's a stoker quick and easy analysis
no he attempted to continue to attend high school but there wasn't a school
uniform and he was a bearing the same thing every day so eventually he stopped
going he has since got his GED now we're sure while he was taking care of by his
elder brother Melvin LaBranche the third who was making a living by selling drugs
everybody was telling me no ugh you don't need to sell drugs but at the end
of the day I felt like man yo I'm taking just as much of a penitentiary chance as
you are because I'm in the car with you riding with crack I'm holding your crack
I'm making sales fuck you I'm counting yo money you know I'm saying and so if
we get pulled over I'm going to tell - nobody became clear that August he needs
to make some money for himself which turned him to hang with drug dealers and
it didn't take long for him to realize that he would need to sell himself in
order to get ahead but then in August of 2010 will his brother Melvin he got
killed just three days before August 18th birthday speaking on this he told
complex my brother got killed so at that point I was like man I'm out here we all
live in the same way this is what happened to him so it's what's gonna
happen to me the same way I was just like it's either this or that following
the death of his brother really started to channel all his energy back into his
music and he came up with a mixtape titled the product in 2012 that was
followed up by the product - in 2013 and then a second mixtape titled
I love this well that climbed to number 13 on the Billboard Hot R&B and hip hop
singles chart and ranked number 48 after the list of the Hot 100
he continued to ascend the ladder of fame with his 2014 debut studio album
titled testimony and that Clinton number 2 on the album charts other notable
musical endeavors of Alsina they include the 2013 EP titled downtown life under
the gun and the 2015 album this thing called life and for me the biggest thing
has been lately is like trying to get people to understand that
no matter how much success a person gain or how far they doing light a person
still come from a certain place now it also looks like he's now taking care of
his three nieces Amelia Caden and Jalen then they are daughters of his late
elder brother Melvin LaBranche a third now he's continued to suffer some losses
including the death of his sister and he's also battling his liver disease
those toxins from stress and anxiety it release in your body and it literally
started to eat at my nervous system now this whole jada pinkett thing well to me
it's all just a little weird piecing this video together I actually found a
ton of photos a ton of videos and a ton of interviews of the two working
together so obviously they were very close but I can't tell you how close
they actually were I don't know I don't even want to mess with the Wills right
now they just shut down Shane Dawson so I'm just a little nervous even talking
about it uh-huh but you know the guy did just
drop a new album and this is 2020 so I guess any publicity is good publicity
but he might be messing with some former friends or lovers I don't know and why
not alright let me know what you think about
all this in the comments down below my name of course is Michael cretin and as
for the rest of the story well I guess we're just gonna wrap this one up here
because this is before they're famous alright see you guys in another video
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