Whatever Happened To Frank Ocean

[HARLEM AL]

nikkas acting like they didn't know Luther was gay fukk out of here nikka.

 

[B. Pumpaveli]

New album is titled "Boys Don't Cry"

ay yooo that title is just outrageously gay

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

The club is the new church. Only young demographic I see on the church are black women. Everybody else, too busy getting turned up every Friday and Saturday night .

yah but them bytches head to church sunday morning after turning up satday night

 

[High quality poster]

Don't think "boys don't cry" is the name of his album, just his magazine. StillFrank the goat bout to drop another classic.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Luther left that secret. It wasn't public until a year after his death. I already loved many of his songs by then.

Frank literally said that shyt before his career took off. So anything he releases in the future will have me feeling strange

By that logic shouldn't you feel "strange" going back and listening to Vandross, knowing he was talking about dudes?

What about Elton John? Freddie Mercury?

 

[malbaker86]

Why do I feel like him and Kendrick Lamar would make good music together? Anyhow, he needs to drop something soon though, I fukked with his first album

 

[The 2020 New Member]

Why do I feel like him and Kendrick Lamar would make good music together? Anyhow, he needs to drop something soon though, I fukked with his first album

Maybe you're a good matchmaker

Nah. But tbh, they are both souful and specific lyrically. And they both make mood music.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

I see why he's taking longer. He was one of the first to do a "surprise" album release and I remember being hyped as hell and instantly loving the album, and with him coming out a week or so before, there was a huge reaction to that. I think Frank is a bit of a "studio" artist, in that he sounds much clearer on record, but he has to prove himself on more musical merits this time and he's keeping quiet until it's ready

 

[Dank Hill]

I thought this dude was coming out with a new album

 

[blizzard man]

singers dont release projects every 12 minutes like rappers do breh

chill out, itll be here when its ready

 

[High quality poster]

I thought this dude was coming out with a new album

Greatness takes time my friend.

 

[SirBiatch]

All I can tell you is that Nostalgia Ultra is straight up the best RnB shyt I've heard in like...7 years. Or whenever it was that RnB/soul fell off the cliff.

Channel Orange is straight trash. I guess if you're into that rambling Stevie Wonder shyt maybe it's hot. But it aint Nostalgia by a long shot.

Nostalgia was funky and soulful. Almost every beat had that groove you could dance to while hearing some thoughtful lines. "Strawberry Swing" has the best writing I've heard in an RnB track in many years. That track blew me the fukk away.

Somewhere along the way, RnB cats forgot that you can sing about more than just love, relationships and girls. There's tons of other stuff to sing about. One of the greatest soul records is "Inner City Blues." Frank Ocean had tracks like "We All Try" talking about belief systems, and made it sound fly as hell.

and you wanna compare him to the fukking Weeknd?

shyt... the first verse of Novacane was probably a top 5 verse for that year.

I don't know a single RnB artist since the mid 2000s that has a collection of songs as good as "Strawberry Swing", "We All Try", "Novacane", "Songs For Women" and "Swim Good." Even songs I'm not fukking with like "Dust" are dealing with far more interesting ideas than any new RnB cat, or rapper for that matter.

@The God Poster I don't know shyt about RnB, right?

 

[Champion]

I thought this boy had next What a turn of events.

 

[blizzard man]

he must be doin ok for people to still be waiting and asking about him years later, right?

yall aint asking where ginuwine went

 

[FS4LFE]

I thought this boy had next What a turn of events.