Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music." "It sounds like a sob story, but it should actually be inspirational," he says of his struggles thus far.
Thankfully, Alsina is here to remind us time and again that while these battles may get him down, they will not take him out. The good the bad the ugly, I'm just glad to seeð." A lot of things that are so natural to us in life (like waking up and being able to see ð) we can take it for granted. This shit is beyond painful & Life be throwin' a nigxa curve balls but what I've gained from it all is priceless. "In order to prevent my eyesight from deteriorating i had to do this surgery. Blind in my left, and losing vision in my right," captioned Alsina alongside a picture of himself receiving treatment. You take that for granted, waking up and being able to see." Taking to social media, Alsina explained the extent of the condition that was unfortunately well beyond his control. "It was a very humbling experience," says the "Wait" rapper of the diagnosis. On the back of his unfortunate fall and subsequent coma in 2014, Alsina leveled with his fans in 2015 about his battle with a degenerative eye disease that is only worsening with time. I'm recovering well and thank you for all of your prayers & concerns."Īugust Alsina at SiriusXM Studios - Larry French/Getty Images "What I'm tryna say is cherish the ones in life who cherish you & take good care of yourself. I woke up out of a 3 day coma." wrote Alsina in an Instagram post dedicated to clueing his followers in on his condition. "This is a bit graphic but i wanted to share this w/ every follower of mine. Reportedly, the cause of Alsina's sudden collapse was a near-lethal combination of both exhaustion and dehydration. In 2014, Alsina fainted while performing onstage in New York City's Irving Plaza.įollowing the nasty spill, Alsina suffered multiple seizures and was transported directly to the Intensive Care Unit where he fell into a three-day coma. If you're wondering what happened to the "Get Ya Money" rapper, check out what Alsina has been up to following the 2015 release of second studio album This Thing Called Life below.
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2 spot on the Billboard 200 with debut album Testimony while also claiming the best new artist title at the BET Awards.Īfter beefing up his resume with one professional success after another, a series of personal blows dimmed Alsina's shine and the hitmaker has since slowly faded from public consciousness. Just one year later in 2014, the R&B singer nabbed the No. After dropping his first mixtape, Th e Product in April 2012, Alsina achieved mainstream success in 2013 with his breakout track "I Luv This Shit" which triumphed at the top of Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Mainstream Airplay chart for two weeks. If it wasn't somebody killing me, it'd probably be me killing myself."Ĭatapulting off of the success of his growing online following, Alsina relocated to Atlanta and signed to the prestigious Def Jam Recordings label in 2011. "If that didn't happen, I wouldn't be here today," says Alsina of his brother's untimely and tragic death.
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However, in the wake of his brother's shooting death in 2010, Alsina rededicated himself to his art and turned his full attention to fully breaking in to the music industry. In the aftermath of losing his one connection to his growing followers, Alsina resorted to selling drugs to make ends meet. While he was still in his teens, Alsina grew his first fanbase by uploading videos of himself singing covers to YouTube in his distinctive R&B/hip-hop fusion style- a feat that was soon undercut by getting kicked out of his house at age 16.
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