August Alsina Quotes

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.

We all battling different things. Me? I’m just able to channel that through my music.

I just feel like no one is the same.

I want to make music to lift the people.

My music is a gift from God that saved my life.

I’ve always been the underdog, and I’ve always had to work much harder than the next person just to get a look. But I feel like that’s Black people as a whole, to be honest with you. We have to do so much more and work so much harder to get certain kinds of looks within this industry.

All I have is my truth, and all I have is my truth to stand on it.

Some days I’m up, some days I’m down. But I think one thing that does get you moving is hope.

Nothing is held back on ‘Testimony.’

I know how people see me. People see me as a rebel. People see me as maybe even ignorant. People see me as a threat or rude or whatever. It’s a lot of people who just don’t know me.

I feel older than I really am. It’s because of the cards I was dealt.

I have trust issues.

Of all my childhood memories, I don’t have any good ones.

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.

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

I had over 10 seizures.

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.

I feel hurt and pain times a million, all the time.

I don’t have any reason to lie about anything.

People think that money and fame fixes and changes so much. Money does give you assistance and resources in this life. But you think that life will become easier, and that’s not necessarily true.

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

It’s easy for people to talk about the negative.

I don’t like drama. Drama actually makes me nauseous.

Pride definitely causes a lack of communication.

People can have whatever ideas that they like. But what I’m not OK with is my character being in question.

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

My mom used to work two jobs to take care of me, my brothers, and my sisters. She worked hard to take care of us. Back in the day my mom was actually a dental assistant.

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.

Always stand 100 with yourself.

Nothing scares me. Nothing actually shocks me anymore.

I just tell the truth.

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.

I’m not a rapper. I stay in my lane.

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