Def Jam Records recording artist August Alsina is getting ready to release his debut album Testimony on April 15th. Making the album available for pre-order today on iTunes, August gave fans a free listen of his highly anticipated record with Ricky Rozay titled “Benediction”. The New Orleans native expresses his confessions while labelmate and MMG boss Rick Ross adds a guest verse over this soulful Eric Hudson-produced single.
Fans who pre-order the album on iTunes, will receive “Benediction” as a free download, but for those unable to fork up $11.99 right now can stream the single below. Does this sound like a hit?
In other news, August just revealed the tracklist to his album on Monday, which will feature guest appearances from Chris Brown, Trey Songz, Jeezy, Yo Gotti, Pusha T, Fabolous, and Trinidad Jame$.
Quotable Lyrics:
Started off in the streets
We would take collection from the fiends
People dying all around me
So I gave you my testimony
We were down from the beginning
When the world wasn't listening
Now that I got your attention
Let us in with the benediction
- August