August Wild Music & Socials
August Wild is a hip-hop artist whose music centers around reflection, discipline, and the reality of growing up without a clear roadmap. Born Marco, the name August Wild represents the version of himself he had to build through experience, mistakes, and hard lessons. His writing often comes from the tension between who he thought he would become and who life forced him to be.
On Project Nostalgia, August’s subject matter focuses heavily on identity, generational patterns, broken friendships, addiction, and the pressure of wanting more out of life than what he came from. Throughout the project, his verses move between confidence and self-criticism, showing the mindset of someone who has made progress but still feels the weight of the past.
Lines like
“Everybody I was living for is now dead to me”
and
“If the whole world hates you, you still got love in your heart for yourself”
capture the tone of his writing — direct, emotional, and rooted in real experience.
Much of August’s perspective on the album comes from learning discipline later in life, realizing that talent and ambition don’t mean anything without consistency. Songs like Doesn’t Matter Anymore, Rear View, and Better Off Alone reflect on the loneliness that can come with growth, while records like Proud of You and Self Luv show the shift toward breaking cycles instead of repeating them.
Rather than presenting himself as someone who figured life out early, August’s music comes from the opposite place — someone who made mistakes, lost time, and still decided to become better anyway. That honesty is what defines his role on Project Nostalgia.
Project Nostalgia 