Upon the release of his latest album, channel ORANGE, Frank Ocean recently spoke about his decision to drop the digital version of the album first. The singer, who was featured on Jay-Z and Kanye West’s album, says that was inspired by their Watch the Throne album release strategy.
“I kinda wanted to mirror what Jay and Kanye did with Watch the Throne,” Ocean shared with BBC Radio 1. “Preventing the leak by staggering the digital and physical dates. My thing was, I wanted all the promotional elements to be– I don’t know if the word is ‘retroactive,’ but kind of follow the album with the videos and the tour and do everything after. And kind of just let the music speak for itself for a second and not be in a situation where the record leaked. It was always my plan to drop it ahead of physical.”
In terms of content, Ocean shared that he was inspired by his view of what music will sound like from him in the future. He explained that he wanted to try new song structures, making music like he never had before.
“I wanted to do things that I hadn’t done before structurally with songs and I wanted to go different places sonically that I hadn’t gone before. … I tried to make something that was true to what I heard in my head, true to what I thought the future should be for me music-wise.”
Physical copies of his album will not be available until later this month, on July 17.
Fuck what this gay ass nigga thinks
Go take a bath and shave your legs bitch ass faggot
Shut the fuck up!
fuck outta here you faggot…people like you make me sick
Im no wonder. Jay and Kayne are gay so dey inspire other gays. awwww how sweet. dis gay ass niggas killin hip hop. Birdman, Weezy and Drizzy are straight at least. YMCMB da only true hip hop label. swag
Didn’t Birdman and Lil Wayne kiss each other?
Yes they did. And regarding Jay-Z and Kanye being gay, if being gay means fucking Beyonce and Kim Kardashian, then I wanna be the biggest gay in the world!
Dee and Knocker, havent you noticed Icy Boi us the biggest troll on this site. Quit replying to him. Hes probably a Frank Ocean fan anyway
hey dumbass if u hadnt noticed birdman and weey kiss all the time google that shit you sound fuckin ignorant damn 14year old go back to listening to the new flo rida
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This whole “I’ll release my stuff on Itunes a week early because of leaks” crap is invalid. That’s not the case. Whether you decide to release it on Itunes or in physical first, if it leaks, it leaks. All it takes is a shady producer or crafty A&R guy or a hacked email. Itunes doesn’t really stop shit.
Inb4 Illuminati
Listened to channel orange today. It’s pretty dope. R&B usually ain’t my think but I fucks with it.
DX, ur name is HIPHOPDX and not R&BDX! Why the fuck r yawl shoving this fag down our throats? I do not cosign gay and would whoop this nigga in real life. Give us hiphop news and not some r&b gay ass nigga. Fuck u dx!
i don’t co-sign all the shit you talked, but i do agree with your asking why they keep writing articles about this dude. he’s a singer, not a rapper – just ’cause he’s part of the odd future gang and worked on watch the throne don’t make him hip hop
because dumb ass bitches like you who claim to hate him always click his articles and write comments about him. you don’t know how a website works, do you? fucking idiot.
I think it’s pretty obvious that Jay-Z was Frank Ocean’s first male lover.
Dumbass.
Dumbass hater.
Jay Z’s mother is a lesbian.
bunch of Gays
Whats a god to a non believer!!!!
gon cop that album! frank dope.
What is frank doing the most ? is he more of a catcher like moises alou or a pitcher like that steroid nigga roger clemens?
no wonder the album sounds gay…
fuck this gay-ass nigga
FUCK THIS FAGGOT, MAN
who cares if hes bi, i dont know him! i judge him by his music which is nice.
When men write ‘fuck this faggot’ I imagine they do because they want to. Why else would it interest you?
There’s so little real love in the world I’m happy when anyone finds a real connection with another person.
Channel Orange is dope. Formal and inventive and genre defying like classic Prince.
frank ocean is really good at singing my favorite song is thinking about you