It's been a crazy year for Frank Ocean, this young dude has been in the studio with probably just about everybody, released his first album Channel Orange and also done something that shocked His fans and everybody else.
Frank Ocean wrote a "coming out" letter!
The ODD Future singer took his timeout to sit down with Amy Wallace of GQ magazine to tell His story so far, addresses the 'coming out' letter, meeting ODD Future and other things.
Read Frank Ocean's interview and Check out EXCLUSIVE pics of Him and His other fellow ODD Future Members below!
GQ: Def Jam reportedly signed you as a
recording artist in 2009 but didn't open up its checkbook at
that point to help you record. The next year, you met Tyler, the
Creator, and the other members of Odd Future. How important was
that?
Frank
Ocean: I
was at a real dark time in my life when I met them. I was looking for just a
reprieve. At 20 or 21, I had, I think, a couple hundred thousand dollars [from
producing and songwriting], a nice car, a
Beverly Hills apartment—and I was miserable. Because of the relationship in
part and the heartbreak in part, and also just miserable because of like just
carting that around. And here was this group of like-minded individuals whose
irreverence made me revere. The do-it-yourself mentality of OF really rubbed off on
me.
GQ: Is it true that you wrote the songs
for Channel Orange in three weeks?
Frank
Ocean: Yeah,
then I worked on them for nine months—a typical gestation period.
GQ: Let's talk about your open letter
on Tumblr.
Posting that must've felt like the hardest way.
Frank Ocean: Yes, absolutely.
GQ: So why did you do it? Were some
people raising questions about the male pronouns in a few of the songs?
Frank Ocean: I had Skyped into a listening
session that Def Jam was hosting for Channel Orange, and one of the
journalists, very harmlessly—quotation gestures in the air, "very
harmlessly"—wrote a piece and mentioned that. I was just like, "Fuck
it. Talk about it, don't talk about it—talk about this." No more
mystery. Through with that.
GQ: So do you consider yourself
bisexual?
Frank Ocean: You can move to the
next question. I'll respectfully say that life is dynamic and comes along with
dynamic experiences, and the same sentiment that I have towards genres of
music, I have towards a lot of labels and boxes and shit. I'm in this business
to be creative—I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider. One of
the pieces of content that I'm for fuck sure not giving is porn videos. I'm not
a centerfold. I'm not trying to
sell you sex. People should pay attention to that in the letter: I didn't need
to label it for it to have impact.
Photos: Peggy Sirota | Frank Ocean | GQ Magazine
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