In a viral video, Tyler plays the piano on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Anna of the North and Steve Lacy beside him, and yells “Do Frank part!” to an audience who sings it word for word. Lonely,” the lead single for his longtime collaborator’s unofficial coming-out album, Flower Boy. June 30, 2017įrank contributed a verse on Tyler, the Creator’s “ 911/Mr. “Ain’t no middle man, cut in my blessings” Frank raps, referencing the 70 percent revenue he earned from Blonde after ending his contract with Def Jam. On Blonded Radio, Frank premiered A$AP Rocky's cipher-like “RAF,” which he guested on, alongside Quavo and Lil Uzi Vert. The single art paid homage to painter Kerry James Marshall’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self, itself an homage to Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. “ Lens” was a lo-fi reflection of Frank’s deceased loved ones and ancestors, who are smiling down on him even while he’s butt-naked blowing someone’s back out. Frank released a solo version with a new verse on the 6th episode of his radio show. “ Biking,” an ode to the sport and allegorical meditation on the cyclical nature of life, featured early collaborators JAY-Z and Tyler, the Creator. Who could forget the image of rubber-banded Delta gift cards and lines like “my guy pretty like a girl”? Frank’s lyricism stood out on the dreamy, understated track, which felt of the Blonde era. On Blonded Radio, Frank debuted his first post- Blonde solo single: the bisexual anthem “ Chanel.” This was also the first single released under his own label, Blonded. Frank also interviewed JAY-Z about the dismal state of the music industry. For the inaugural episode, he spun “ Slide,” his then-new collaboration with Calvin Harris and the future Song of the Summer for 2017. Disaffected by the label’s refusal to release his music for years, he called Endless “a seven-year chess game.” February 24, 2017įrank launched his Apple Music 1 show, Blonded Radio. ![]() In the same New York Times interview where he discussed the Grammys, Frank also revealed that Endless , the visual album whose release immediately preceded Blonde’s, got him out of his deal with Def Jam. Photo by Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images November 15, 2016 Frank Ocean and his mother, Katonya Breaux, at the White House in 2016.
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