August Alsina
An artist who took his talent through the powers of Youtube. Very similar to another individual "Justin Bieber" who expressed his talent on the same platform only with a completely different story. At a young age his life was surrounded by drugs both his father and stepfather were addicted and lost the struggle to defeat the substance abuse when August was 14 years old. As he trying picking himself back up, and started get a bit of an audience on youtube his past revisited his life and his best friend was shot dead in the streets of Houston. He disappeared from the stage he was creating for himself.
At 16, he was then kicked out of the house by his mother. Attempted to start his life back up he enrolled into high school though short on a paycheck, his brother and himself went to the only thing they knew and that was the streets. They both started selling drugs to fill their pockets with some money so they could sleep. Shortly after this begun his brother Melvin LaBranch III was shot dead on the streets. "People die everyday in the streets of New Orleans. Unfortunately, death has become a way of life".
After this brother's death he used it as inspiration to keep going forward with his music to get out of the ghetto. His talent eventually attracted some positive light from a production company. Who picked him up and helped him release his first mixtape "The Product" with one of his biggest hit songs "I Luv This S***". Later getting more attention from MTV as one of the Fab 5, to one of the main hip hop artists to watch. In April 2014, he released his first album Testimony selling 67,000 units in its first week, making it the #1 debut album and R&B album. He is now currently touring with Chris Brown.
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