![]() ![]() Listing his nominations and awards would be another full article in itself, but some of them include two Grammy Awards (for his album Channel Orange and collaboration on the song “No Church in the Wild”), two platinum-certified albums, Time’s best album of 2016 ( Blonde ), and recently had two albums on Pitchfork’s Top 200 Albums of the Decade, with Channel Orange at No. 1 and currently having over 1.38 billion streams on Spotify alone, he chose not to submit it for Grammy consideration. He rarely does interviews, his social-media presence is sporadic, he doesn’t make “pop, radio-friendly” music and he hasn’t released an album since Blonde. Nothing about him is traditional to the current music industry. Ocean also was one of the first men in R&B and rap to come out, leading the way for other artists (and fans alike) to be free to express their sexuality. They show inner philosophical battles relating to love, isolation, purpose, depression, nostalgia and existential crisis. His music weaves from genre to genre, from R&B, soul, jazz, pop, and rap to avant-garde, electronic, and rock, with poetic lyrics that show emotional relatability to this generation. The day after the release of Endless, Ocean independently released Blonde, his most acclaimed album to date. In August of 2016, he released a visual album, Endless, which is available exclusively on Apple Music and was the final project needed to fulfill his contract with Def Jam. Shortly after, in 2012, Ocean released his debut studio album Channel Orange, which received universal acclaim and won countless awards. He then released his debut mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, before signing to Def Jam Records in 2012. ![]() Ocean began his career as a ghostwriter before becoming a member of the Odd Future hip hop collective in 2010, working alongside artists Tyler, the Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, Mike G, Left Brain, and Hodgy Beats, to name a few. Mattea Vecera, Staff Writer, Advanced Journalismįrank Ocean’s hiatus seems to have come to a close this past month, just in time for the new decade.įor those that don’t know, Christopher Edwin Cooksey (Frank Ocean) is a singer, songwriter, rapper, photographer, and one of the most acclaimed artists of his time. ![]()
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