Frank Ocean – Pyramids

    https://media.hiphopdx.com/old/singles/20120608-Frank_Ocean_Pyramids-HHDX.mp3

    After announcing a tour and his album “Channel Orange” dropping in July, Frank Ocean releases the full 10-minute version of his latest “Pyramids.”

    188 thoughts on “Frank Ocean – Pyramids

      1. Sounds like the Gap Band Drop the Bomb slowed down. Ocean is great but most of what we hear is a fallback to some old good shit.

    1. Funny how everyone hates on Justin Beiber for being posted(even with a rap feature) on this site but when a 10 minute straight RnB track by Frank Ocean is put up no one says shit except that its brilliant

      1. rap fans dont use logic or reason. they dont even judge music. they just judge based on the name in the title. the same way they’ll praise a nas song about killing people but then diss ross for a song about coke.

      2. Woah woah hang on, this has nothing to do with race. Hip Hop has ALOT of serious problems but I genuinely don’t think racism is one. The overall point steve made is spot on but totally irrelevant in this situation. Frank Ocean is part of a very popular Hip Hop group, he often raps and his sound is closer to a typical Hip Hop sound more often than R&B, but yeah Hip Hop fans (Especially on this site!) are insanely contradictory 95% of the time.

      3. ^you can you just dont want to.

        bieber has worked with more hip hop artists than frank ocean. why do idiots on this site always contradict themselves.

    2. song has been on replay, pure art. everything about it is dope. i think its one of his best songs, and I’m looking forward to the album.

      1. bleek on songs with jay, so are omillio and sparks, being on songs with jay mean little to nothing, but yeah frank continues to deliver

    3. ILLUMINATI ALL THRU YO BODY. BUT, U GOTTA HAVE TALENT TO SPREAD THAT, N THIS NIGGA.. MAN THIS NIGGA… GOT TALENT. 3RD EYE OPEN AND NIGGAZ GOT CL0ZD. NO IDEA WHAT THE LAST THING I SAID MEANS BUT DOPE NIGGEZ DO DRUGGY THANGZ

    4. as Daniel implied I’m amazed that any body able to make $9014 in four weeks on the internet. did you look at this web link (Click on menu Home more information) http://goo.gl/r3jYo

      1. Yep. Because Pyramids instantly equal Illuminati. You may want to stay away from pizza because it’s a triangle, which is close to a pyramid, which is…ILLUMINATI.

      2. Look at all the trolls trying to be dissinfo agents… ya’ll niggas is ignorant as fuck… a bunch of sheeple drnking the coolaid…

        The Illuminatti is REAL… Frank Ocean is a tool for the Black Nobility… just like Kanye/Jayz.. by the way… who was the only artist featured twice on WATCH THE THRONE… oya… Frank Ocean… its called initiation you dumb asses!!

        Try something you have never done—–read a book

        Start with WILLIAM COOPER “Behold a Pale Horse”

      3. NYC cut your wrists… blacks would never be illuminati .. ps. kill yourself lol

      4. NYC777 You got me! I’m on the Illuminati payroll to troll hip hop websites that are frequented by people mostly under the age of 25. Such an effective use of Illuminati funds. Son, there’s a difference between seeking truth and information and being an alarmist.

        BTW I’ve read Behold A Pale Horse. Cooper draws the correlation between Illuminati and various organizations/institutions but HIP HOP MUSIC IS SURE AS FUCK NOT ONE OF THEM. Even the more out there connections between aliens and the Illuminati, Cooper himself recanted later in his life.

        Before you yell to other cats about reading books, maybe you should read that shit again.

      5. i hope you aint a black man or women dumb enuff to fall for the make your enemy hate them selves trick black=pyramids

      6. huh??? fucking owning niggas. god damn. nyc777 and anonymous you are outmatched by a nigga that doesnt get all his “inside information” from youtube.

      7. NYC777- Dont worry man… first they hate you, then they ignore you, then they agree with you. I see you my nigga.. trying to wake up these idiots… U ARE RIGHT MY NIGGA!!! Shit is going down, secret society’s are real… KANYE, JAYZ, FRANK OCEAN, are some soul selling satanic faggots…

        http://www.VIGILANTCITIZEN.com

      8. Peace! I don’t hate the man, I didn’t ignore him, but I don’t think I’ll ever agree with him. I went to the website you have there, as soon as I saw the headline: The 2009 VMAs – The Occult Mega Ritual, I just had to come back. The MTV Video Music Awards are where the best minds are all under one roof, obviously, so this would be perfect for the Illuminati.

        Shit IS going down. Secret societies ARE real, but some of y’all are internet sages. What do you think is a better plot: Take over rap music or use the internet to propagate false information? All it takes is one guy to make a youtube video pointing out symbols in music videos and now he’s an Illuminati expert. Seek knowledge for yourself the organic way.

    5. every body is dwn the ITANIMULLI I MEANT ILLUMINATI my abd

      last time i cked we still have Soc.Sec.# s so think noo thank u
      dont be a sheep be the goat

    6. who said a black man in the Illuminati LAST TIME I CHECKED THAT WAS THE BIGGEST RACIST PARTY

      1. “The last time I checked” What? Checked a YouTube video made by someone as lacking in logical prowess as you?

    7. It stinks. Anyone who thinks the name has anything to do with illuminati is a sheep just following trends. A youtube video taught you all about the “illuminati” and like a sheep you followed along with it. The song sucks though.

    8. Frank ocean is an incredible song writer and The Weeknd has a great voice. Them niggas should team up.

      1. Frank’s voice is infinitely better than The Weeknd’s voice. Watch any live performance by either and you’ll see there is no comparison.

    9. if the illumanti is real why would they have jay kanye nd frank ocean wouldn’t they go for top 100 richest people? when a white man make it u say it was amazing, when a nigga make it u say he was a mason smfhh

      1. LMAO… they got the topp 100 richest already. do research. they use famous ppl to influence their ways subliminally in their music to the fans and idles. Ppl be sleepin.. lookin like imma be smfh

    10. ILLUMINATI DOESN’T EXIST ANYMORE TO SOME OF YOU FUCKING IDIOTS! LISTEN TO HIIIPOWER BY KENDRICK LAMAR

      1. My third eye been open sun….Kill all the hype…. teach me always down to discuss when people have facts not opinions and hearsay . Been reading books like the “The truth , The Lie, and The bible since I was 15 (27 now) you sound like you read one of these same books but took it as fact instead of cross referencing and finding The Highest truth. come back when you have till then……..

      2. all kendrick said was ‘who said a black man in the illuminati, last time i checked that was the biggest racist party’ .. in no way does that state the illuminati no longer exists. Listen closer to what your hearing my friend

    11. I like THIS kind of new school. Also fuckin with all the shit ocean’s been doin. kid has found his style

    12. KISS THE RING!!!!!

      COMING AUGUST 21, 2012!!!!!

      GET IT ON ITUNES OR IN STORES!!!!

      SALUTE!!!! AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!!!

      1. dj Khaled. get a real job and stop ruining songs with your annoying ass voice. even though youre not dj khaled… i still needed to say it.

    13. Finaly gave this guy a listen…he’s pretty amazing..its not my genre of choice but dudes mad talented…Shit

    14. Oh and by the way its clearly about a stripper from the Luxor Hotel..Do motherfuckers even listen to lyrics.

    15. Oh and by the way its clearly about a bad bitch that works at the Luxor Hotel in Vegas…He just says it so subtle and eloquently in his lyrics that people who arnt even trying to listen to him.

      1. THANK YOU – Xactly. Odd future wolf clique fell off already – frankie ocean the only one that has a future

    16. I fucks with Frank Ocean… But this right here def aint “American Wedding” Niggas need to stay away from Kanye West and Jay-z to stay fresh, Jay-z smell like a bag of russett potatoes

    17. Frank ocean need to get his money up before he’s even in the same sentence as ‘illuminati’ lol

    18. I’d rather be a sheep and enjoy the music i like. Than be a fucking bitch and bitch about the illuminati all day. And when you think about it who are more in controll by the illuminati. The ones who don’t pay attention to it or the ones who bitch about it all day?

      1. You are ignorant! Ignorance is bliss…. knowledge is power… read a book nigga… u dnt need to be in the ILLUMINATI to worship the devil!

        Frank Ocean is a satanic bisexual who makes great music!! accept the truth!

      2. 1.G-Funny is the man for that comment.
        2.Anonymous is proof that people that believe in that shit are retarded and ignorant themselves

    19. This song is fucking incredible. There’s so much to this song that will take people time to figure out. When the beat changes, it took this song to a whole different level. Wow.

    20. Frank Ocean has done it yet again…. no surprise. I don’t think there is a single song of his that I HAVEN’T fallen for. His lyrics are so deep and the underlying message is always so much more meaningful than it seems.

      1. ok
        1.sayin your a “REALNIGGA” just means ur a “REALIGNORANTMUHFUCKAWHOSPROLLYFAKEAZFUCK”
        2.i know this because you put Killuminati!!!!!!!!! like it means something

    21. For real? People are ridin mad dick.. He’s talented but this shit is garbage sound like techno and bullshit

      1. cuz you have a one track mind.simple minded when it comes to Music.the problem is you lame.not the song

    22. Pyramids don’t always have to do with the Illuminati people. Which are disbanded. The Governments the enemy stop letting them distract you. Music is music appreciate it or move on.

      1. A LITTLE?!?! This nigga is all shit!!! He can’t sing for shit! Ho is a discgrace for R&B music.

    23. YOU FAGGOTS SAYING THERES NO ILLUMINATI OR THAT THEY NO LONGER EXIST N SHYT NEED TO WAKE THE FUCK UP. QUIT BEING DUMB BITCHES WITH THIS TRENDY “IDGAF” ATTITUDE LIKE ITS DOING YOU ANY GOOD. THE WHOLE INDUSTRY IS CONTROLLED AND IT’S CLEARLY INFLUENCING YOU ALL TO BECOME STUPID AND IGNORANT BY PUTTING MATERIALISM AND THE PROFANE ON A PEDESTAL. IF YOU HAVEN’T READ INTO THE FACTS THEN DONT DENY IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. THE ILLUMINATI CONSPIRACY IS AS REAL AS THE AIR YOU UNFORTUNEATELY BREATHE

      1. ok
        1.they have NOT existed for hundreds of years now due to the fact that they were discovered.
        2.you need to wake the fuck up because you know nothing but paranoia.
        3.quit being trendy with your “Illuminati is running and watching everything i do” bullshit that bored ass bloggers on youtube started.
        4.music is music.no evil mind control or brainwash.you on the other hand….smh
        5. you need help….and to repeat school…and never touch a computer..EVER!

    24. Did one person just say Illuminati on this comment page and every loser started talking about it?

    25. Frank is that new wave of r&b his songs always have a deeper meaning. And hes writing style is unique and different

    26. This song isn’t about coke idiot! Cleopatra is a prostitute. “pippin in my convo” “working at the pyramid”… This nigga frank thinks like no other R&B dude. True talent

    27. This reminds me of Kanye’s 808s but actually good, ’cause the artist can actually sing.

      I’m sold!

    28. Hip Hop DX stop posting shit from this lame negro! He ain’t Hip Hop! He’s just an R&B bitch.

      1. ^^^^^^
        No it’s not. You think like this because you just a little bitch controlled by the radio that listens to whatever they push to your face. But true Hip Hop heads know Rap is not R&B

      2. Frank is not just any R&B singer. His lyrics involve the same wordplay, metaphors, and intelligence that really great rap music has, and his production and voice is just amazing

    29. Love The Song Wish We Could All Enjoy The Music For Music. You Know The Negative Shit When You Hear It You Feel It. For The Illuminated Ones Dont Believe The Hype The Corruption Is Real But The Name Is Not Who They Are. Lets Do Some Research So We Can Teach And Support Arguments With Facts. If You Dont Like The Music You Are Entitled To Your Opinion & If You Think Frank Ocean Is Wack KILL YOURSELF How Many 24 yr old young men do you know who has written for Brandy Beiber & John Legend & Collaborated With SOme Of Music’s Most Influential People

    30. 1. “Start”

      The intro track is just a few seconds long, all shimmering synths and 8-bit videogame sound effects. Its “channel-surfing” sound effects introduce a theme that will run throughout the album, especially the interludes, as though you’re clicking the buttons of a TV remote to venture forward.

      2. “Thinkin’ Bout You”

      The first single has been given a makeover, with bigger, lush strings, both acoustic and digitized, and deeper drums that emphasize the space in which Ocean’s voice hangs.

      3. “Fertilizer”

      A funked-up, showtune-esque interlude about 30 seconds in length, and darling in its exuberance.

      4. “Sierra Leone”

      Not entirely dissimilar to “Thinkin’ Bout You,” “Sierra Leone” is a wall of washed-out, breathy synths and thudding drums, punctuated by woozy strings and tinkling chimes. Think Marvin Gaye if he’d been into reverb.

      5. “Sweet Life”

      Five tracks in and I’m already out of condoms. This sultry piece is introduced by a melodic bassline and jazzy Wurlizter keyboard. Shuffling drums and thick vocal harmonies build to an all-out crescendo including a brass ensemble. The trick of building up instrumental parts until they all coalesce in a grand crescendo is one Ocean employs a few times on Channel Orange.

      6. “Not Just Money”

      A speech interlude about happiness over tinny traffic sounds and a turning indicator.

      7. “Super Rich Kids” (ft. Earl Sweatshirt)

      A talk-sung, pseudo-rap verse from Ocean over an emphatic piano and drum stomp leads to a borrowed chorus from Mary J. Blige’s “Real Love,” but the highlight is a slow, methodical rap verse courtesy of Earl Sweatshirt. Ocean’s falsetto refrain makes it clear why the rapping in Odd Future is left to others.

      8. “Pilot Jones”

      The channel-surfing leads quickly to reversed synths and hammering sub-woofers, isolating Ocean’s voice so that his melody, one of the best here, lilts loud and clear above the instrumental tracks. Synth chords come in briefly near the end, but fade out again quickly into Rhodes for “Crack Rock.”

      9. “Crack Rock”

      Fans of the Roots’ early catalog will recognize the Rhodes keyboard and Questlove-style, hi-hat-heavy beat. The best part, though, is when the drums halt for Ocean’s melancholy chorus, and then start back up again to propel the song’s verses, about (surprise!) the adverse effects of drugs.

      10. “Pyramids”

      You’ve heard this one, but not until you’ve heard it on a space-encompassing, brain-rattling speaker system. The synth breakdown a minute in hits especially hard.

      11. “Lost”

      Another slow build, “Lost” begins with spare guitar, keyboard whorls and tight, cracking snare. As jabs of string ensemble are slowly added to the mix, so are more of Ocean’s background vocals and and stacks of harmony. Look for at least a trio of background singers on Ocean’s upcoming tour.

      12. “White” (ft. John Mayer)

      Thank god John Mayer’s contribution to this record is only a guitar part. My breath was held waiting for the track to feature his syrupy croon, but it never came — “White” is an interlude of bluesy guitar noodling and white noise.

      13. “Monks”

      The siren synths that begin this song, underlined by plucked bass, go staccato in the first chorus. Then, they join an all-out soul-jazz groove, with Ocean wailing yearningly in and out of falsetto, over the fray.

      14. “Bad Religion”

      Over a plaintive organ, Ocean begins talk-singing to a cabbie, and ends with his most audacious vocal performance on the record, hitting the upper part of his register without going to falsetto. A string section, rat-a-tat snares and hand-claps lend a gospel feel to this album highlight.

      15. “Pink Matter” (ft. Andre 3000)

      A lyrical continuation of “Sweet Life,” but where that song was nestled in the sexy, R&B half of Channel Orange, “Pink Matter” is at one with the more ambitious and introspective second half. Ocean stays in his resonant baritone register here, as slow, mournful strings and barely audible, clanging trash-can drums lead to funk bass, which leads to Outkast’s Andre 3000. Andre’s amazing verse is an album highlight, as is the funk guitar solo that follows him and the four-beat bass drum that ends the song.

      16. “Forrest Gump”

      Clicking, stuttering sub-drum tracks and quick guitar strokes propel the penultimate track of Channel Orange. A sample of an appreciative crowd underlies Ocean’s simple melody, which is mirrored by guitar licks. A whistled outro provides a nice denouement to Orange’s second half.

      17. “End”

      A reverbed-out, just-audible “Voodoo,” an early track that never made the album cut, provides the end interlude, along with muffled sounds of traffic and rain. Then, the car door opens and the sound of rain in the background intensifies. The crunch of gravel leads to a front door, and, once indoors, the recording stops abruptly. TV or reality, Channel Orange ends here.

    31. I FUCK WIT THIS JOINT
      FRANK OCEAN IS THE SHIT
      FUCK THE OTHERS LAME NIGGAS THEY DONT SHIt
      BTH listen to the new sound of my group 1995 – La Suite thats giganormous listen niggas its better than GOOD MUSIC

    32. HYPOCRITES… UMMMM NO ONE IS ANGRY BCZ FRANCHESKA IS A FUDGE PACKIN BUTT PIRATE YO… IT SEEMS THE SEMI HOMO ALWAYS GET SCARED AND PANIC WHEN FOLKS DONT JUMP ON THEIR FAG WAGON AND JUS BLINDLY SUPPORT THEIR MENTAL IMBALANCE AND HEPATITIS INFESTED LUST. WHEN FECES BECOMES EDIBLE AND LIFE IS BORN FROM THE ANUS THEN AND ONLY THEN CAN U GET ME TO CONDONE SUCH ACTIVITY. AND I HAVE A RIGHT TO THAT VIEW U FUCKIN PUPPETS. WAKE THE FUCK UP AND STOP MAKIN EXCUSES FOR UR GUILTY
      “PLEASURES” HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 5 STARS HAAAAAAAAAAA HAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…. SOME O YALL NEED TO WIPE THE FUDGE OF THE CORNER O YA LIPS… NO WONDER YA BREFF STANK HAAAAA

    33. FUUQQ YEEZ MY NIKKAS

      FINALLY IT HAPPENED – JUST GOT A NEW RIDE – A CAM A RO CONVERTIBLE.GOT APPROVED FOR 26 LARGE. BEEN 5 YRS SINCE IVE GOTTEN SHYT APPROVED, BUT NOW ALL MY CRE-DIT SHEET GONE. ALL OF IT.

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      MY HOMEBOY WAS IN THE GUTTA TOO, AND HE CLEANER THAN ME NOW-gettin a condo!!

      Hit em up – THEY WILL HELP U!!

      1. -___- take the biggest gun you can your hands on and put it to your face make sure its loaded…and pull the trigger

    34. FUUQQ YEEZ MY NIKKAS

      FINALLY IT HAPPENED – JUST GOT A NEW RIDE – A CAM A RO CONVERTIBLE.GOT APPROVED FOR 26 LARGE. BEEN 5 YRS SINCE IVE GOTTEN SHYT APPROVED, BUT NOW ALL MY CRE-DIT SHEET GONE. ALL OF IT.

      IF YOU STRUGGLING WITH THAT CREDITT HISTORY ISHH, GET RID OF ALL DAT TODAY – CALL THESE PEEPS AT 8^8^8-9-2-7 -3-3-5-6. . THEY DO AMAZING WORK AND THEY ARE CHEAP AS FUQQ. GOT RID OF ALL MY SHYYT IN NO TIME.

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      1. Yea I know it’s tricky bro, that t key is right next to that y key, lmao ignorant homophobic asshole

    35. FUUQQ YEEZ MY NIKKAS

      FINALLY IT HAPPENED – JUST GOT A NEW RIDE – A CAM A RO CONVERTIBLE.GOT APPROVED FOR 26 LARGE. BEEN 5 YRS SINCE IVE GOTTEN SHYT APPROVED, BUT NOW ALL MY CRE-DIT SHEET GONE. ALL OF IT.

      IF YOU STRUGGLING WITH THAT CREDITT HISTORY ISHH, GET RID OF ALL DAT TODAY – CALL THESE PEEPS AT 8^8^8-9-2-7 -3-3-5-6. . THEY DO AMAZING WORK AND THEY ARE CHEAP AS FUQQ. GOT RID OF ALL MY SHYYT IN NO TIME.

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      Hit em up – THEY WILL HELP U!!,

    36. people have just came on here to hate that his gay I MEAN COMING ON HIS OLD POSTS TO DO THAT wow tell me who’s insecure….

    37. I like it even if he does slob on the knob. thats not what this song is about.

      Just because someone is a homo dont mean they cant be talented, Kevin Spacey is a great actor, being gay aint gonna make Keyzer Soze a less interesting character

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