Blog: Quit Mumbling

Frank Ocean's Channel Orange is one of our favorite albums of the year. Aside from the hype around his personal life , it's an honest record of love and loss, rejection and courage in a context that matters. What we're seeing with Drake , what we have seen for years with Kanye , and what we're seeing with Frank Ocean is the embrace of vulnerability, not out of weakness but as a vessel for truth. R&B and hip-hop have always been intertwined with lust and the pursuit of wealth to [...]

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