August Alsina is responding to Young Thug's past comments about not respecting men who "turn gay."
During a nearly hour-long Instagram Live session last week (June 19), the singer addressed the 34-year-old rapper’s comments.
"Maybe that was about a month or so ago. I can't even remember. But there was a comment that I seen Young Thug make randomly saying like, 'Oh, I can't respect n****s who just turn gay' or some wild shit like that,” Alsina said near the 20-minute mark in the video linked below. “It's very strange to me when n****s got all type of shit going on in the world in their life, but a gay be the conversation.”
He added, "We talking about grown men. Nothing keep the Black community in a chokehold with a conversation like the gay conversation. It always has had y'all in a chokehold, and it unfortunately always will."
He also recalled a previous moment when he learned Young Thug had shown him support, saying The Breakfast Club hosts once told him that the rapper had posted him to his Instagram account.
Alsina said the newer comment felt personal because, "I know that I can randomly be on people mind unprovoked. So that comment I took personal ‘cause it's like, n****s be crazy. It's time to start calling out stupid."
He continued, "I'm not into convincing people that they stupid no more. Your life will show you that. Life results will show you that. I am into simply saying that's stupid. Like, that's a dumbass take … You think about the idea that you saying that you don't respect somebody because they gay, or because they turn gay, or whatever. N***a, why is this shit on your mind as a man who just got out of jail by the fucking grace of God?
“It's so much shit you could be talking about, but this is the shit that's on y'all mind,” he added.
Young Thug’s comments came as he discussed loyalty and his fractured relationship with Gunna during a September 2025 episode of the Perspektives with Bank podcast.
“I feel like once you break a rule from your manhood, once you rat or once you turn gay," Thugger said on the podcast. “I don't got nothing against gay people."
During a 2019 interview on Big Boy's Neighborhood, Thug addressed the public speculation surrounding his sexuality following the cover of his 2016 mixtape Jeffery, which showed him wearing a dress.
"People judge me and say 'gay.’ If people think that I'm gay, they've already misjudged," Thug said at the time. "I'm the straightest man in the world."
As explained by Planned Parenthood, a person’s sexual orientation is not a choice, and research shows that it's likely caused partly by biological factors that start before birth. The organization says it's not possible to "turn" someone gay, or straight, through any kind of "therapy, treatment, or persuasion."
