Frank Ocean interviewed by MTV News

In a his first public interview with MTV News, Frank Ocean discusses what he want’s people to know about him as an artist and about creativity in general.

From the interview:

The first thing that was shocking to me — as a person that grew up with the Internet and knowing how vicious people can be, especially when they are anonymous — early on, there was no hate. There was nothing negative. Everything I was thinking about from the marketing prospective was as far as how to start a fire, because you don’t expect a response, because who the f— am I? I’m just another guy putting out another collection of music and telling you to download this.

Edit October 28, 2020: This is a segment of a longer interview which MTV removed from their website years ago. They have reposted it on Facebook. We’ve retained it above for posterity.

Edit July 25, 2022: The segment has been re-uploaded on MTV’s YouTube Channel. You can watch it below.