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The first time Nostalgia, Ultra blessed many of our ear's we immediately knew there was something special about that Frank Ocean . One record deal and debut album later, the Channel Orange singer releases a track that didn't quite make the cut entitled, "Eyes Like Sky" . Touching on the many definition's of sight, Ocean gives perspective from a man who lost his sight but see's the world in a way most never will. Definitely feeling this track and hope there are more leak's from the vault [...]
It was while I was away, working in New York, that Frank Ocean released his debut studio album Channel Orange, and my sense of bizarre marvel at all that differentiated Los Angeles from New York came into focus.
If you're a regular spectator in the r&b / hip hop music scenes then you already know that Frank Ocean is one of the hottest up and coming songwriters in music. Seriously, the dude writes r&b jams with the slick hotness. Technically the recently released channel ORANGE constitutes Ocean's debut album, though it was predated by his phenomenal free mixtape nostalgia, ULTRA which sent most critics aflutter (I was certainly not immune ). In fact, that debut mixtape was so incredibly good, it set incredibly high expectations for his "official" debut album. Does [...]
As someone who is involved both in the music blog-o-sphere and the LGBTQ community, I got about 10 texts, Facebook messages, calls etc. the morning Frank Ocean became one of the first openly queer individuals in the rap/R&B game. While this was very exciting information, in some ways it overshadowed the release of his first studio album Channel ORANGE, which technically drops today (though it had an iTunes “exclusive” release a week earlier). In the massive amount of press about which songs include references to his sexuality, the surprising support of fellow industry up-and-comers such as Tyler the Creator, [...]
There's been a lot of talk about Frank Ocean over the last few weeks, the majority of it I've not really paid attention to. I'll keep this quick: I couldn't give a fuck what Frank's sexual orientation is, but I say good on him for making his announcement. It might lead to some petty grief , particularly in a notoriously conservative country like the USA, but you'll hopefully open up a few minds too. There. That's my two cents. What I'm really concerned about is how his new [...]
You may have not heard of Frank Ocean just yet, but you've certainly heard his work with artists like Justin Bieber and John Legend.
"Whippin my stick... shift gear", I have a feeling Frank Ocean may not be exactly talking about driving just a car here. "Whip Appeal" was a track that was rumoured to be a bonus track on the also rumored re-release of nostalgia, ULTRA . Ocean's quote below puts a rest to both: Hahaha. What I look like a year later re-releasing my last album? Not icey. Bitch I'm icey. Download Frank Ocean Whip Appeal Download Frank Ocean Whip Appeal
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Photo credit to Nabil Listen to "Whip Appeal" , a new song by Frank Ocean . Frank Ocean 's "Nostalgia/Ultra" , one of our favorite albums of last year , was supposed to get a proper release via Def Jam at some point, but things seem to have fallen through, and now we're just left to wait on Ocean's new album, due sometime later this year. "Whip Appeal" was one of the songs that [...]
Check out Frank Ocean's new slow jam track featured on his Tumblr. Free download after the jump.
Love Me Now, When I'm Gone, Love Me None By Taylor K. Long For an emotional R&B singing moniker, Christopher Breaux aka Frank Ocean couldn’t have done much better. Writers often use water metaphors – an ocean, in particular – to represent feelings, emotions, and hidden...
Frank Ocean gets interviewed by BBC's Sound of 2012. Probably the best interview of Frank Ocean I've seen so far, check it above...
Tune-Yards Welcome to the fourth part of our albums of the year countdown - for the rest of the week, we'll be bringing you our favourite albums of 2011, as voted for by our writers. Earlier this week, we revealed 50-41 , 40-31 and 30-21 - check in tomorrow when we'll finish with 10-1. We'll bring you our favourite songs of the year next week. All in all, 24 lists were totted up by Mitchell Stirling, and votes were cast by Tom Bolton, Paul Brown, Sam Cleeve, Jane Corcoran, Lucy Dearlove, Rosie Duffield, Ben [...]
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Tweet Use the Retweet or Share buttons above to enter to win our entire Top 31 Albums of 2011! Artist : Frank Ocean Hometown : New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Members : Frank Ocean Formed : 2007 [...]
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(photo credit: Nathaniel Goldberg/GQ) Unless you've been living under a rock for the past year, you know that Frank Ocean is the absolute and utmost Truth. Not only is he crazy talented but he's also been selected as GQ's rookie of the year and looking too good for words. Congrats! GQ writes, "Earlier this year, 24 year-old rapper Frank Ocean was unknown. But after posting his album Nostalgia Ultra online, Ocean suddenly found himself catching the attention of some very important people – Diddy even went as far [...]
Frank Ocean - Thinking About You (music video) from High5Collective on Vimeo . Frank Ocean has been everywhere lately from features on Watch The Thrown to writing credits on Beyonce's new album its clear the guy has talent and is definitely deserving of all the buzz. Its more than refreshing to see a real video rather than a club/party scene and the artist standing in front of a truck with girls and money floating around him. Good music equals good videos which leads to good times/vibes. If you haven't been bangin the [...]
Two new Frank Ocean videos dropped over the past couple days, and boy are they purdy. The first is for "Thinking About You" (above), an official clip directed by High 5 Collective , while the second is for "Swim Good" off of Nostalgia/Ultra . My initial fears that Frank wouldn't be able to continue the stunning start he made off that free album seem to be waning, thanks to clips like these and his couple of [...]
You can't say we weren't expecting it. The Odd Future crooner and overall R&B songwriting legend-in-the-making Frank Ocean is going hard in the paint right now. Never mind the two huge guest spots on one of the year's most highly anticipated hip-hop records ( Kanye West & Jay-Z 's Watch The Throne ), the New Orleans native is now the R&B and pop community's figure-at-large at the moment with all eyes fixated firmly on the 23 year old. To somewhat satiate the hoards of now-salivating fans & on-lookers, two new creatively [...]
If you thought that last Frank Ocean video was hard to follow then you might have some trouble wrapping your head around this one. Long story short: Ocean grabs a samurai sword, kills somebody, blows up his car, puts on a panda mask, and then stares at a bird. Directed by Nabil Elderkin , the same dude who did the video for "Novacane". Hey, sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
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With all the success Frank Ocean has been having with mixtape turned album, features on Watch The Throne, and getting signed, it's about time he release some more visuals. Check out the video for, Swim Good , below. frank ocean [swim good] from christopher francis ocean on Vimeo .
Two videos in two days for Christopher Francis Ocean and he brings back previous collaborator director Nabril for "Swim Good." Make of this one what you will; I got nothing. In fact, the videos for "Thinking About You" and "Swim Good" create what I refer to as the The Boondocks effect, where my expectations do not match the reality of what we receive. I'm sticking to audio only and using the "model broad with the Hollywood smile" as the leading actress for all of the imagined [...]
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