"Umm yeah, I have to go meet up with Eva and then Go see my Abeula." I said while getting dressed. I know, I know he's 36 and so much older but I can't control love. I was 25 and engaged to be married to Usher Raymond. Love you." I said hanging up the phone with my grandmother. We hope that Alsina is doing well and that he continues to be the parent that his nieces need."Okay, I'll be there later. May all the generational curses he’s suffering be broken and keep his nieces in your good graces,” another person tweeted. God please let this man get and stay healthy. Other people started to join in, posting positive sentiments about the singer and giving him well wishes. The tweet definitely struck a chord with a lot of people who have missed Alsina’s presence in the music industry and hope he is doing well. His liver disease keeps him in consistently, all while his peers don’t even show love. His brother was killed and sister-in-law died, and he took in their daughters and is raising them on his own. The tweet states, “People don’t even realize August Alsina was next. Fans show support as he begins trending on TwitterĪlsina began trending on Twitter after one tweet in particular went viral. I’m not in disagreement with having a child, it’s just about the circumstance being what it should be in order to bring more life into this world,” he said. And maybe once they get older, I could possibly have a kid and know that going to look out for my kid. But I think at this point in my life, my babies, they’re still kids. “The joy that my nieces give me, I wouldn’t mind. He says while he is open to having children of his own one day, his nieces are his priority. The discussion with The Shade Room was Alsina’s first public interview to press in several years, though he also appeared in an episode of Pinkett Smith’s Facebook talk show, Red Table Talk, in 2018Īlsina commonly shares images with the girls as well. And I am how I am until I get to more of what I’m supposed to be.” To go through life without having a person you can run to, without having a certain type of foundation, so I’m saying all of that to say I am how I am.
On becoming a parent, Alsina said told The Shade Room last year, “They call me Damy it’s dad and mommy mixed together and just the weight of that title alone because I don’t have kids of my own, it makes me want to be what I know I need to be for them because I grew up with my father dead and having a strained relationship with my mother. His brother was killed, and his sister-in-law died after having cancer, so he began taking care of his four nieces. All this crazy sh*t didn’t happen to me just to happen.” Tragedy has resulted in the singer raising his niecesĪside from his health problems, Alsina has also had some personal tragedies. I know that all of that has got to be for a reason. You take that for granted, waking up and being able to see. In December 2015, he said, “I went to see a few other doctors, but that was it - I had to accept it. The rapper was told he had a degenerative eye disease that was worsening and needed to get surgery to help correct it, which he did.
In 2015, he revealed he was blind in one eye and losing sight in the other. He collapsed on stage in 2014 after having seizures and was in a coma for three days. Prior to revealing this, Alsina had other health scares as well. Don’t treat me like I’m a f*****g cancer patient, ’cause I’m not.” I don’t really like to talk about it because I’m not looking for anybody’s sympathy. The reality of it is, I’m sick all the time. He first met them through their son, Jaden Smith.Īlsina said in the interview, “I have a liver disease where my autoimmune system is fighting against itself. Alsina has a close relationship with Pinkett Smith and Will Smith and the former helped him through a Percocet addiction. He opened up about it in an interview with his good friend, Jada Pinkett Smith. In 2017, Alsina first revealed that he had liver disease. He hasn’t released a lot of music since 2017, only a few songs here and there. As of now, this is his last major single.
In 2016, he was featured on another hit DJ Khaled single, “Do You Mind,” which also featured, Chris Brown, August Alsina, Future, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, and Jeremih. His second album, This Thing Called Life, was released in 2015 but did not reach the same amounts of success as Testimony. He was featured on multiple hit singles in 2015, including DJ Khaled’s “Hold You Down,” which also featured Chris Brown, August Alsina, Future, and Jeremih. The album featured the singles, “Make it Home” and “No Love,” featuring Jeezy and Nicki Minaj, respectively. His debut album, Testimony, was released in 2014 and it reached No.