August Alsina is extremely disappointed in his hometown New Orleans, and he’s not letting it slide. The R&B singer was close to finishing his plans for a community event for families and children when the city put a sudden halt to everything. After finding out the news, Alsina recorded his own testimony of what went down and why he felt discriminated by his own city. Watch what he had to say after the jump!
August Alsina put the city of New Orleans on blast via Twitter last night (June 12). Alsina was in the process of locking down the final arrangements for a community event he had been planning with his team. He claimed that the city shut down his operation because of his “status as a celebrity.” He took to social media to vent his frustrations.
“I met with everybody there was to meet.. City Hall, the commander, the councilman & so on,” said Alsina on Instagram. “What I gained from the outcome was that they saw me as a problem and a threat to the city because of my status as a “celebrity”, & the people I would attract all because I’m a young black man.”
In his extended version of his rant against NOLA on Twitter, the “Numb” emcee also said that he’s more upset at the fact that he couldn’t give back to his community. He feels like he was denied because his own city racially profiled him and thought he would bring unwanted visitors to his event.
“My goal isn’t to shit on anybody with putting this out there or make anyone look bad. I’m simply shining light on the fact that I TRIED and was denied several times without any logic!”
Here’s his side of the story.
— August Alsina (@AugustAlsina) June 12, 2015
— August Alsina (@AugustAlsina) June 12, 2015
— August Alsina (@AugustAlsina) June 12, 2015
— August Alsina (@AugustAlsina) June 12, 2015
— August Alsina (@AugustAlsina) June 12, 2015
— August Alsina (@AugustAlsina) June 12, 2015
— August Alsina (@AugustAlsina) June 12, 2015
— August Alsina (@AugustAlsina) June 13, 2015
— August Alsina (@AugustAlsina) June 13, 2015
— August Alsina (@AugustAlsina) June 13, 2015
— August Alsina (@AugustAlsina) June 13, 2015
And that’s some real shit. My city always hating on the black folks who try to do something positive for the our city. Fuck them bit he’s though August. We know what’s up.
They do Aug they do dis city don’t wanna see nobody make it dey hurting us after Katrina dey raised duh prices on everything making it hard Fuh us to live here we gotta bust our ass to make ends meet you know I work at a nursen home doing house keeping and guess how much I get paid $7.25 brush days an insult but I have four kids so I gotta do something I wanna go to school but don’t have duh necessary items to do it its a shame and it makes me angry and I always say I wish hope and pray DAT a hurricane wash dis bytch out so we can go some where were we can live some where were I am able to provide for my kids living here I can’t even do DAT Aug especially when I gotta pay rent light and water and you know how DAT makes me feel as a mother worthless recently dey had a girl killed her kids problem cuz she couldnt deal with duh fact DT she couldn’t provide for them and these days you can’t count on no one not even family its no help and its really heart breaking
Ma’am you said it beautiful for all of us. (Eloise). I’m a single parent myself and going round in circles as well.I hear so many ppl talking about once they left the city how different life is but what about the ppl whom would leave only if they had that extra help cause without it how can we afford to do anything when what we have now is barely enough now to take care our family
You are so right our city don’t like to see black folks working hard to give back and trying to do what’s right for our city we work to hard to be treated like this and tbh I think you should still do it and I think it will be a great thing to do because your doing it for a good cause and ain’t nothing at all wrong with that
i totally agree with you August it’s like people that try to do good things for the community never can . They know it would be for a good cause but they tryna Blaime your fame for the situation. Thats not right because at the end of the day it’s not even about the money you human just like everybody else so why judge you based on fame that’s just not right bruh. The killing getting outta hand now they killing innocent young people for no damn reason ,and I feel like the government need to do they damn job and handle this shyt . It’s like they don’t give a fuck about the young people that’s being killed and that shyt kills me bruh .
That’s so messed up
Can’t do nothing positive things for the New Orleans community when someone trying to make it hard for you just because one black man did it doesn’t mean the next one will
The. Man was just trying to give back to his community
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