R&B singer August Alsina’s sexuality has had fans speculating for some months.
The chatter ignited recently, after Alsina snapped pictures all summer with his friend Zu. A joint post featured the two of them shirtless and driving a boat in the sea. In one of the slides, August and Zu were dancing while PartyNextDoor played in the background.
Alsina recently stopped the Counsel Culture show on Amazon’s Prime Video and addressed the matter.
When asked directly about “falling in love with a man,” Alsina told Nick Cannon and his co-hosts that love is complex.
“To be honest, it’s not me that’s opening my heart…it’s the power that’s higher than myself. The greatest gift that God could have ever given me was exposure. To expose me to so many different types of people, places, things. So, when people want you to define yourself, as gay, straight, bisexual, love is so much more complex.”
“Why do us as humans have to have such direct answers or definitions of, like, ‘Are you straight?’” Nick Cannon remarked after August Alsina’s thoughts. “‘Are you this? Do you love her? Why do you got so many baby mamas?’ *laughs* No, but I’m just saying, because everybody says, ‘You can’t love that woman if you are not ina traditional one-on-one relationship with her.’ And therefore, now, I don’t love the mothers of my children because I don’t define it the way that you define it.”
The 31-year-old singer’s sexual orientation initially became a popular topic on social in November 2022. During the finale of VH1’s The Surreal Life, Alsina told viewers about love knocking on his door “in a new way.”
Social media users were quick to react to the new shirtless photos of the two artists. Many felt that it is not the public’s business to know the status of their friendship.
August Alsina nor Zu have yet to directly confirm or deny being an item.