(In the spring of 2015, Breaux went to a Los Angeles courthouse to change his legal name to Frank Ocean, who he’d been for years.) But when he was still a toddler, he and his parents moved to New Orleans, where a French surname is perfectly at home.įrom the time he was young, Breaux wanted to make music. What’s happening, if not time travel?Īlso Read Frank Ocean, Bad Bunny, Blackpink To Headline CoachellaĬhristopher Edwin Breaux was born in Long Beach in the fall of 1987. In a decade marked by quick turnover and comically short news cycles, Ocean’s stature seems to grow unfettered and uncontrollably while he lays low, joining a short list of superstars without so much as a stray single. He’s collaborated with some of pop’s biggest stars, but those sessions have yielded slow burns (Beyoncé’s “Superpower”), buried album cuts (Jay Z’s “Oceans”), or uncredited turns on political screeds (Kanye West’s “New Slaves”). The last Frank Ocean record came out before Mitt Romney accepted the Republican nomination, before Beyoncé irreparably changed the album rollout, before the Supreme Court upheld marriage equality, and - in many ways - before Ocean was a superstar.ĭespite his obvious talent (and stellar PR outfit), that ascent’s been puzzling: Frank’s only landed in the Hot 100 twice, never higher than No. When the long-anticipated Boys Don’t Cry comes out tomorrow, it’ll be Frank’s third major project in five years, but that’s misleading. The cocaine crusted onto countertops was treated suspiciously (yikes). The Frank Ocean tape wasn’t what Odd Future was staked on: It was calculated, it was thoughtful. Earl was still in Samoa and would be there for another 12 months. Tyler’s Goblin would come out that May, and despite tepid reviews and an absurdly bloated running time, would survive as one of 2011’s most discussed, dissected, and - in some circles - revered albums. The Odd Future buzz was reaching a fever pitch. came out in February, on the same day that Tyler, the Creator and Hodgy Beats played “Sandwitches” on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. He believes our lives are complex he thinks the moon landing was a hoax. On “We All Try,” a carefully made declaration from Frank Ocean’s breakthrough mixtape, nostalgia, ULTRA., the enigmatic singer proclaims: “I don’t believe in time travel.” He does believe in war, heaven, God he believes in a woman’s right to choose, “but baby don’t abort.” He believes in same-sex marriage, foreshadowing the TextEdit.doc heard around the world, in which he acknowledged his love for another man.
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