Alsina begins the following "Make It Home" with "I don't always do what I should, but I do what I gotta do" like he has lived through what no young man - or any other human - should ever experience. When he confesses, "Didn't graduate, I'm thinkin' damn, I gotta deal," it's as if he is confronting a reality that coping and selling drugs - "just to get a meal" - are one and the same. Within a matter of four minutes, he sings of abandonment, envy, poverty, desperation, survival, and the death of his brother. Buy the album Starting at £13.99įor those who didn't get around to checking the brief 2013 release Downtown: Life Under the Gun, August Alsina opens his first full-length with "Testify," a ballad that, with grim elegance, lays out the New Orleans native's background. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.
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