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R&B Singer, August Alsina Down With Partial Paralysis
American R&B singer, August Alsina has been admitted into hospital after telling his doctors that he was unable to walk.
The singer has been fighting an auto-immune disease for years, causing him to make regular trips to the hospital.
Alsina, who also has problems with his liver, announced his health status on Instagram on Tuesday after he failed to show up at the Essence Festival in New Orleans at the weekend.
He wrote “Hiiii guys!! It’s me, being my most awesome, weirdly great self.
“I’m here with the stitch & to also apologize for not being able to make the essence fest gig last night.
“I woke up one day and wasn’t able to walk, Couldn’t feel my legs.
“My doctor ended up admitting me to the hospital to do a bunch of tests and he said that I have some nerve damage going on throughout my whole body that I have to undergo a recovery process for.
“I don’t know, it’s like my immunity (sic) system just went on vacation.
“So just waiting on it to come on back so we can get together and make it do what it do, man.
“I take my career & your time very seriously & the fact that you guys show up for me, endlessly means the world
“I’m man down right now, & figured I should share.
“ My auto immune disease is raging, but im fighting this thing & on my mission to shake back & be able to make it up to you!
“I got so much NEW NEW to share w/ you!!!..& Big Love to give.
“Big Life, Big Dreams & every peaceful thing to you! Less stress, More Love, More Rest, & Jah Bless”.
The Tide gathered that the singer made the video message from his hospital.
Alsina once collapsed on stage in 2014, when he spent three days in a coma, and subsequently developed an addiction to pain pills.
In 2017, the singer also revealed he was “sick all the time” due to an undisclosed liver disease.
R&B star, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has recounted the early-career challenges she faced, revealing that she was once booed out of the stage while performing at a school event.
Speaking in an interview with Newsmen, the Crazy Tings crooner shared that she wasn’t only booed but was also harassed with plastic bottles.
“I remember one time I was going to perform at my school as an up-and-coming singer and I thought I was going to receiving a standing ovation.
“But I got booed. They even threw plastic bottles at me,” she recalled.
Tems explained that despite the embarrassing incident and other such rejections, she remained determined to pursue a career in music.
The Tide Entertainment reports that Tems admitted that some of the initial rejections she faced could be due to her conviction to stick to her originality instead of doing covers or familiar sounds like most of her peers.
The Grammy-winning singer said looking back now, she is glad that she didn’t compromise her style despite the initial pressures.
A close associate of late singer Mohbad, Primeboy, has appealed for the artiste’s burial nearly three years after his death.
According to him, Mohbad’s body remains in the mortuary since September 12, 2023, pending burial arrangements.
The Tide Entertainment reports that in a statement Primeboy urged the family, public, and government to permit the burial, stating, “It’s been almost three years since Mohbad left us. His body is still in the mortuary. I’m begging the family, I’m begging the public, I’m begging the government, please let’s bury our brother. He deserves a befitting burial.”
It would be recalled that Mohbad’s death sparked public outrage, protests, and investigations. Ongoing autopsy examinations, police inquiries, and legal proceedings have delayed burial arrangements amid family disagreements and public scrutiny.