August Alsina has drawn from an unstable and tragic upbringing to record some of the grittiest contemporary R&B of the 2010s and 2020s. Within a few years of uploading his first clips, the singer and songwriter landed a deal with Def Jam that yielded the platinum single "I Luv This Shit" (2013) and a number two hit debut album, Testimony (2014). Since wrapping up his major-label phase, the singer and songwriter has gone independent with his Shake the World label, the outlet for the double-length album The Product III: stateofEMERGEncy (2020) and a handful of subsequent singles...