Boys Don’t Cry features a series of interviews by Illegal Civ founder Mikey Alfred with five of Ocean’s other friends in LA around 2012 or 2013, titled “Hopes and Dreams.” Recordings from these sessions were sampled in Ocean’s song “Futura Free,” which closes out his companion album, Blonde. The interviewees include his brother, Ryan Breaux; Illegal Civ skaters Sage Elsesser and Na’kel Smith; and friends Brahim Hariri and Evan Clark.
Read MoreInside Frank Ocean’s Boys Don’t Cry magazine, journalist Danna Takako talks to the voice of the 2016 Blonde track “Be Yourself” and 2012 Channel Orange track “Not Just Money.” Takako asks Watson about her phone calls and her son’s friendship with Ocean—including how it led him to record his music for the first time—in an article titled “This Is Mom.”
Read MoreBoys Don’t Cry magazine features a brief exchange with chef and YouTube personality Felicia “Auntie Fee” O’Dell. She recounts an anecdote about rescuing Frank Ocean late one night, after he ran out of gas on the Santa Monica Freeway.
Read MoreIn the opening pages of his zine, shared on Tumblr for all to read, Frank Ocean introduces Boys Don’t Cry and his album Blonde with a missive reflecting on his experiences making the content featured throughout the art book’s 370 pages and the CD in its center.
Read MoreIn a surreal video filmed by British filmmaker Tyrone Lebon, Frank Ocean joins a host of other celebrities in modeling for Calvin Klein’s fall 2016 #MyCalvins global campaign. The one-minute underwear advert sees Ocean discussing his passion for music as a new instrumental plays in the background. He also quotes prospective lyrics from his overdue album, Boys Don’t Cry.
Read More"One of my management people called me and told me they were trying to keep him offline, so I apologize for that.
Read MoreTroy Noka has production credits on Nostalgia, ULTRA, but few know about the collaboration between Frank Ocean and Bishop Lamont from 2010.
Read MoreFrank Ocean is the issue 3 cover star of the motor-based French magazine Garagisme.
Read MoreToday’s Matt Lauer sat down with some of this year’s “Time 100” honorees, including actress Amy Poehler, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and singer Frank Ocean, to talk about the moments that changed their lives and more.
Read MoreAt the 2013 Time 100 Gala, an MTV News reporter asked Frank Ocean about his creative process and his next music project. Ocean revealed that he’s listening to the 1960s boy bands The Beatles and The Beach Boys while working on the follow-up to his 2012 record, Channel Orange. He also alluded to a couple other artistic projects currently in development.
Read MoreTyler revealed that he and Frank wrote a song for Justin Bieber's new album Believe that was rejected by the teen pop star.
Read More"Everything that we did together built that up. But it was just genuinely from being fans, liking what each other was doing and then making good music.
Read MoreIn a new segment called "Ocean's Rising," GQ sits down in a parking lot to discuss channel ORANGE with Tyler, The Creator and the rest of Odd Future.
Read More“The song is fantastic, and when Frank decides to unleash it on the public, they’ll realize it then.”
Read MoreIn a new interview with GQ, Frank Ocean discusses his biggest year yet with Amy Wallace.
Read MoreA photoshoot for XXL magazine turned into an impromptu music video for Odd Future’s new track “Oldie,” premiering alongside their new album, The OF Tape Vol. 2. The 11-minute track features a verse by Frank Ocean, who appears with the rest of the OF crew in the video filmed by Lance Bangs.
Read MoreFrank ventured out into L.A. for a quick photoshoot with Todd Cole for i-D's Royalty Issue.
Read MoreIt turns out that Big Sean spent some time recording with Frank Ocean for the G.O.O.D. Music Compilation, but that the records ended up on the cutting room floor.
Read More"Christopher Francis Ocean is set to finally establish himself as a solo artist of Worldwide acclaim in 2012.
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