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"&lt;img alt=\"0920-august-alsina-instagram-01\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2014/09/19/0920-august-alsina-instagram-4.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;August Alsina&lt;/strong&gt;'s condition was much more serious than his camp initially let on -- the singer was in a coma for 3 days after fainting on stage in NYC ... but he is finally awake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;August posted a gnarly photo of himself Friday morning after regaining consciousness ... thanking friends and family for their \"prayers and concerns.\"&amp;#160;In the pic, his head is heavily bandaged and an oxygen mask is strapped to his face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TMZ broke the story ... &amp;#160;BET's Best New Artist of the Year collapsed and &lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/15/august-alsina-collapses-on-stage-new-york-city/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;fell off a stage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160;Monday night. The next day, Alsina's rep said he was&amp;#160;&lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/16/august-alsina-seizures-concert-collapse-faint-hospital/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;suffering from seizures&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160;and was in ICU.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alsina's rep now confirms he'd been in a medically induced coma since Tuesday, and on a breathing machine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;{{tmz_video_0}}"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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