August Alsina opens up about sexuality & labels: 'Love is much more complex than that'

"To be honest with you, bro, it's not even me that's opening my heart," Alsina said when asked about opening his heart to another man. "It's that power that's higher than myself. I always say that the greatest gift that God could have ever given me was exposure. To expose me to so many different kinds of people, places, things."

"So it's like, when people want you to define yourself as whether you're gay, straight, bisexual, or whatever it is you was just talking about, love is much more complex than that and has much more depth," he added. "So for me, I'm just the kind of person that, because love is a language, I'm fluent in love when it speaks to me."

Alsina had previously opened up about his love life in the season finale of VH1's The Surreal Life in 2022, which many fans interpreted as a public coming out.

"Love showed up, but in a new way," he said in a confessional in the episode. "I want to share that and really honor the person that I love and loves me back and is teaching me so much about love and healing. I want to do that in front of the world because it defies all of the constructs one would say love is supposed to be or love should look like."

After that, another man entered the frame and sat down next to him, with Alsina saying "I love you," before the two hugged.

Alsina is a singer who won Best New Artist at the BET Awards in 2014 and is maybe best known for his "entanglement" with Jada Pinkett Smith that was all over the internet in 2020.