Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Frank Ocean Covers FADER


Frank Ocean is like a speeding bullet in the industry. I was tight when I learned he of ALL qualified and established artists would be featured on Watch The Throne not once...but TWICE. Bur he did his thing, and you cannot deny talent. Check out the excerpt from his latest sit down with FADER mag...


When he was nine, Frank Ocean’s godfather subscribed him to Robb Report, a magazine for the ultra-rich. Less interested in fiduciary smarts, it’s a catalog of conspicuous consumption, highlighting tropical vacations, invaluable antiques and, as Ocean came to know, really expensive cars. Though he comes from a middle class family, he obsessively read the magazine’s classified ads, fixating on exorbitantly priced used Bentleys and Maybachs. “I would just fall in love with all their cars. That was the start.” Ocean, who was born Christopher Breaux (and goes by Lonny to friends), downscaled his material desires, and when he was 13, began going door-to-door, detailing cars for cash. “I would bring all my supplies. Literally, it was like a movie, I had a wagon, those long red wagons, like a Radio Flyer-type wagon, and I used to buy my own soaps.”


SCREAM @ ME!!!

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