Odd Future resident crooner Frank Ocean recently paid a visit to Hot 97 to speak with Angie Martinez for a rare interview. During the conversation, the singer-songwriter spoke on recording with The Throne (“No Church in the Wild,” 
“Made in America”) and how Jay-Z made him nervous at first.
“I rarely do collabs, so that was just one of the ones you absolutely do. It’s like a no-brainer. I didn’t really think about any of it,” he said. “The first seven minutes or so of working with Jay – I won’t even say it was seven minutes, but the initial walk in, sit down, put your bag down, he wasn’t saying anything and I was nervous. But as soon as we started talking… He was super cool. I think he was just trying to make me nervous, make me sweat. It seemed a little intentional. It was all good. We were laughing.”
He explained that he recorded with Jay for his solo album first, and that his sessions for The Throne came later.
“I worked with Jay, just me and Jay, on his album, his solo album, before I did the Watch the Throne sessions,” he continued. “But the second time I went, I walked into a room, it was Barry Weiss, Jay, Beyonce, Kanye, a couple other people in the room. It was a pretty heavy room. I got a panda hat on my head.”
Listen to the rest of the interview below, where he speaks on his major label debut, Odd Future and more.
dude u suck u cant sing for shit ur the worse thing on that CD both tracks… idk what jay and kanyw where thinking when they heard that
stfu! u prob listen to some celine dion. fucking twit
I’d say that No Church in the Wild was one of the highlights, actually.
someone’s a fan of chris brown i take it.
No church in the wild was one of the best songs on WTT
that was the 1 song i listened to. If it was the best song on the album, it was a bigger piece of shit then I expected
Agreed. People’s standards are so low today. Frank’s just taken advantage of the state of music. Some of his stuff is dope but the majority is “half-ass” material. He’s talented but I don’t get the 5 star collabos though.
the nigga who said frank ocean can’t sing should be smacked with a Justin Bieber CD!
celine dion is raw
FUCK GOFLWANG
buddy throwin that Boff(baphomet)up with both hands wack with no soul lol
i liked frank ocean on no church but for made in america i think john legend would of done a better job but do your thing frank ocean i never wish falure on anybody whos working hard at what they love
definately agree john legend wouldve killed it (on his 47th chorus since putting out his own song lmao) but i think frank definately did work on made in america. definately killed no church
I think Frank O got talent and is a breath of fresh air in hip hop / r&b. Thank God!
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Ocean is Dope
Interesting symbol on his shirt. Interesting hand gestures as well.