Artist: August Alsina
Song: “Rounds”
Producer: Boobie, The Exclusives
Album: The Product III: stateofEMERGEncy
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Unfortunately, August Alsina has been in the headlines and talked about more for his “entanglement” with Jada Pinkett-Smith than his music. He released his album The Product III: stateofEMERGEncy last month and he’s revisiting it with a new video. In the clip for “Rounds,” Aug is posted up in front of the Benz and riding a lowrider bike as he reminisces on New Orleans, Houston and the memories he has in those cities.
In Jada and “entanglement” news and his relationship with the Smith’s, he told Vulture:
“I don’t know why that word is such an issue. I would agree [with Jada]. If you look up the definition of “entanglement,” it is a complex and difficult relationship. It was exactly that. I think it’s just the language that probably stuck out to people. But I definitely have to agree with it being an entanglement. It definitely was something complicated, a complicated dynamic.
Here’s the deal: I don’t have an issue with anybody. I love everybody. I love all of them. They’ve been my family, and there’s a lot of history there. They’re beautiful people. They’re beautiful spirits. They really are. After my sister died [of cancer in 2018], I decided to do something different and kind of untangle myself from what I had been tangled up in for so long, because it kept me out of alignment with my true self, so to speak. I’m an artist. But because the full truth was never there and the clarity was never there, it kept me from living in my expression. And that made me feel weighted down. That, itself, is another form of oppression and repression and suppression. It started to kind of eat at my life force. That’s really what it’s about more than anything. But there’s no bad blood with anybody. They [the Smiths] got [the Angela Yee interview] way before the world ever saw it. It came from a loving place. There’s no bad love with anybody. I got love for everybody on this planet.”