Myself

“Allow me to introduce myself,” August Alsina sings on the title track of this 10-song project. *Myself* comes to fans some 10 years into Alsina’s career, but depending on how closely you’ve followed the New Orleans-hailing singer following his infamous “entanglement” saga with Jada Pinkett Smith, or his announcement, as he introduced a man called Zu during a November 2022 episode of VH1’s *The Surreal Life*, that love had “showed up” for him “in a new way”—you might still be learning who August Alsina is. Who he is across *Myself* is an artist wholly at peace with his journey, opening the book on his history in the streets (“Lied to You,” “Never Fold”), his rock-star lifestyle (“Weekdays,” “Party”), his views on the importance of self-love (“Same,” “August”), and also how much he appreciates the people who’ve been there for him from the beginning (“Friends”). The August Alsina of *Myself* doesn’t sound too dissimilar from the one who delivered highly personal projects like *Testimony*, *This Thing Called Life*, and *Forever and a Day*, but that’s exactly why fans keep coming back in the first place. There’s always so much to catch up on.