NEW LUPE is a FIASCO

Rap Genius Brazil — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:58:01 +0000

Aside from being the longest title in history, this is quite the album to listen to.

I chose to do an early review because it leaked. Yes I will buy the album when it comes out, and I’ll do reviews of bonus tracks and all that good shit once everything is official. Let’s get started. Also, since this is a leak I can’t provide links to the songs as I do in my other reviews so sorry for that.

ALSO Lupe drops quadruple entendres and shit that I may not catch, so I might under analyze this. Don’t hate.

KILLA!

Rap Genius Brazil — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:59:39 +0000

After taking a year and a half off to rest their road-weary bones and tend to some solo work, The Killers are back with Battle Born, the band’s fourth and most full-grown album. I hesitate to use the word “mature,” since these Vegas boys are still driven by their big, bleeding, collective teenaged heart, which still yearns to hop the first horse or hot rod out of Two Star Town and blaze the open highway to Neon City. But musically, Battle Born attains a nice balance of fire and glory and nuance that previous Killers efforts (or at least the past two) inevitably toppled over in their hell-bent quest for significance.
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THE KILLERS
Battle Born

You can hear the band downshifting even during the big numbers. “Flesh and Bone,” the opener, and “Runaways,” a song title The Killers had to cop eventually, proves they can still project a thunderous, arena-ready anthem into the clouds. But unlike on 2006’s Sam’s Town, a rather exhausting listen that veered dangerously close to Meat Loaf bombast, the band isn’t constantly firing on all cylinders here, so finally there’s a real sense of space in the mix.
And Brandon Flowers’ voice has never sounded better. (Has he gotten even cuter? No, that couldn’t be. Anyway …)
After spending the last few years refashioning the alternative snarl that powered 2004 debut Hot Fuss into a more mainstream rock ’n’ roll croon, he no longer sounds like he’s doing a subpar Springsteen/Bono impression. On songs like “Miss Atomic Bomb,” the guy stands on his own—a rock god with a set of serious pipes.
Flowers’ lyrics have gotten better, too. After giving the album several listens, I’ve yet to detect any lines that make my ears gag like the ones that seemed to drop every other minute in Sam’s Town. (I still cringe when I hear that “they say the devil’s water it ain’t so sweet” part from “When You Were Young.”) Perhaps the line about “a mystery under the neon light” qualifies, if only because you’ve heard Flowers sing something like it countless times, but he more than makes up for it with stuff like “We got engaged on a Friday night/I swore on the head of our unborn child/That I could take care of the three of us/But I have a tendency to slip when the nights get wild.”
Battle Born also offers one moment of revelation in “From Here on Out,” a totally addictive country-rock number in which the band emulates The Eagles with such pinpoint accuracy it’s almost creepy. Here’s hoping Flowers keeps mining the Frey-Henley songbook for inspiration.

The Killers – Battle Born Lyrics
The Killers – Be Still Lyrics
The Killers – Deadlines and Commitments Lyrics
The Killers – Flesh And Bone Lyrics
The Killers – From Here On Out Lyrics
The Killers – Heart Of A Girl Lyrics
The Killers – Here With Me Lyrics
The Killers – A Matter of Time Lyrics
The Killers – Miss Atomic Bomb Lyrics
The Killers – The Rising Tide Lyrics
The Killers – Runaways Lyrics
The Killers – The Way It Was Lyrics

GOOD MUSIC SNIPPETS

Rap Genius Brazil — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:30:35 +0000

Could a “Cruel Summer” download leak be coming soon? The new Kanye West and G.O.O.D. Music compilation album is set for a release date of next Tuesday, but according to a recent report, some physical copies of the new album have been spotted out and about.

Just yesterday, Complex.com posted a photo of a pile of copies of the new compact discs complete with price tags and parental advisory stickers on the front. The cover art is of a pure white, almost angelic female on the front holding her breasts, with what appears to be leaves around her. Apparently the image came from a Twitter and Instagram account owned by Elliot Wilson.

The current release date for the album continues to be September 18th, after it was pushed back. Previously it was thought it might release in early August, then was pushed back to this month. With physical copies surfacing, it appears the album will be available next week. There’s yet to be any sort of pre-order offered on iTunes as of this report, but Amazon offers a pre-order of the physical CD or vinyl copies of the new album.

With that in mind, many expect that this album, “Cruel Summer,” could be one of the best of the summer. It may also find itself leaked onto the internet, especially if there are physical copies of the CD floating around somewhere. This particular project is being boasted by Kanye West, but certainly doesn’t have the top-notch security lockdown that his “Watch the Throne” project with Jay-Z had.

Speaking of Jay-Z, he’s featured on the new song “Clique,” which is currently a #1 selling track on iTunes. It also features Big Sean of G.O.O.D. Music label, and Kanye West. The song will join 11 others on the new album including previous releases, “Mercy,” “Cold,” and “New God Flow.” If the album leaks this week or weekend, expect to hear fan’s hating or supporting the new music online.

Will you be buying a copy of the new G.O.O.D. Music “Cruel Summer” album next week? We already explained the snippets over at Rap Genius!

John Legend – Bliss Lyrics
Kanye West – The One Lyrics
Kanye West – Mercy Lyrics
Kanye West – I Don’t Like Lyrics
Kanye West – Clique Lyrics
Kanye West – Cold Lyrics
Kanye West – New God Flow Lyrics
Kanye West – To The World Lyrics
Kid Cudi – Creepers Lyrics
Malik Yusef – Sin City Lyrics
Pusha T – The Morning Lyrics
Pusha T – Higher Lyrics

NEW KANYE

Rap Genius Brazil — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 01:24:37 +0000

This song is pure genius… Kanye West raps about her reality star girlfriend Kim Kardashian again in his new song “Clique” which also features Jay-Z and Big Sean. The track will be included in the G.O.O.D. Music compilation album “Cruel Summer”. In the snippet of the song, Kanye raps, “Ate breakfast at Gucci. My girl, a superstar all from a home movie.” The rapper is obviously referring to his muse’s explicit sex tape with singer Ray J which led the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” to fame. Apart from “Clique”, Yeezy’s two other songs also talk about the reality star. In his song “Way Too Cold”, which was previously known as “Theraflu”, the rapper sings about how he was already falling in love with Kim around the same time she was falling in love with pro basketball player, Kris Humphries, who was married to Kim for only 72 days. Kim even made an appearance in the song’s music video. Earlier this year, he also debuted the song “Perfect B****” in a New York City club. According to his tweet, the track was dedicated to and entirely about Kim. Surprisingly, the Armenian beauty was thrilled that the song is about her. She was quoted as saying, “I’m honored. I love it. I know he doesn’t mean it in a negative way when he says the word b****.” Kim hasn’t released any statement about the new song yet, but a Kardashian family friend already told Hollywood Life that Kim loved that Kanye’s rapping about her sex tape. “She has always felt uncomfortable with the sex tape and Kanye knew this. This is the exact reason he wanted to draw attention to the subject matter. Kanye wants to help Kim get over any regrets or embarrassment she has about the sex tape. He wants her to move on and be positive about everything that has happened in the past,” the source said.

Kanye West – Clique Lyrics

NEW WEEZY!!

Rap Genius Brazil — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:15:58 +0000

Put your favorite lines from his new mixtape here!

“I got the ball, playing keepaway
Kidnap your ass, kill your ass
Then hide your ass like an Easter Egg!”
Internal rhymes Weezy style

I put bad bitches on my private jet,
And if they aint fucking give em parachutes

Lil Wayne – Amen Lyrics
Lil Wayne – Amen (Dedication 4) Lyrics
Lil Wayne – So Dedicated Lyrics
Lil Wayne – Burn Lyrics
Lil Wayne – Cashed Out Lyrics
Lil Wayne – Green Ranger Lyrics
Lil Wayne – Mercy Lyrics
Lil Wayne – No Lie Remix Lyrics
Lil Wayne – No Worries Lyrics
Lil Wayne – Same Damn Tune Lyrics

Sexual music of the week…

Rap Genius Brazil — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:03:34 +0000

The xx are four
20-year-olds from South London who make predominantly slow, furtive pop
music, mostly about sex. They are also one of the stranger recipients of
UK hype in recent memory. They have no calling-card song; members of
the Pitchfork staff have ID’d no fewer than four songs (“Basic Space”,
“Crystalised”, “Islands”, “Infinity”) as “the one.” They are not fashion
plates, nor likely to be. Their list of influences is potent but
imperfect: Young Marble Giants (too shaggy and heavy-lidded); Japan (too
robust and theatric); Glass Candy (too quick and glammy). Without one
gimmick song they’ll never be able to reproduce, without an alternate
agenda, without a set-in-stone hip influence, the xx start to sound like
a real actual band, even if, after dozens of listens, it’s nearly
incomprehensible to think that a group so fresh-faced produced xx.

Strongly influenced by modern R&B– the group made hay with an
early cover of Womack & Womack’s “Teardrops”, while UK copies of xx
come packed with their version of Aaliyah’s “Hot Like Fire”– the xx
use a drum machine to complement their copiously tidy compositions.
Unlike contemporary R&B fetishists Hot Chip or Discovery, who have
clearly spent long hours internalizing Timbaland, the Neptunes, and
other radio cognoscenti, the xx incorporate more abstract elements of
the genre: a liberal use of bass tones and an unwavering focus on sex
and interpersonal relationships.

Singer-guitarist Romy Madley Croft in particular seems all but
incapable of uttering a line that isn’t a come-on, a post-coital musing,
or a longing apology for a lack of one of the former. During “Islands”
or “Basic Space”, her voice takes on a pleasant soft-pop vibe, like
Stevie Nicks’. When Madley Croft sings, during “Shelter”, “Maybe I had
said/ Something that was wrong/ Can I make it better/ With the lights
turned on,” it’s unclear whether lights-turned-on activity is sex or…
something besides sex. She’s not some purring kitten, though, merely
reflective about a subject we don’t often associate with teenagers and
self-awareness.

Croft’s sparring partner, bassist Oliver Sim, usually fills in the
other spaces via either his responsive vocals or ever-present bass. (His
best trick: momentarily interrupting the divine verses of “Islands”
with four short thumbings). Sim’s voice, papery and affectless, is a
sticking point for some, but pop music has plenty of room for ugly male
voices, especially those with such pleasant friends. Importantly, both
Croft and Sim seem like they’re singing not because they have the best
voices but because they have the most to say (and, purely speculatively,
possibly to one another), something that would align them with an indie
rock tradition as long as the genre is old, (and folk and blues long
before that).

Their voices provide plenty of friction, however, in the context of
the xx’s slight, expert compositions. Working without a live drummer,
the xx manipulate airy, lingering negative space as well as any band
going. Initially hospital-tile sterile, xx rewards volume and
repetition like few other albums this year. Nudge the knob clockwise to
hear sparse guitars decay, bass notes wobble. Amid these delicate
environs, Croft and Sim can seem like they’re working on different
agendas, but the cagey back-and-forth on “Basic Space” is exquisitely
timed, and the lovers’ mumbles of “Heart Skipped a Beat”, over a
clacking drum machine, acquire their own weird logic. Jamie Smith (he of
the “Basic Space” remix) and Baria Qureshi are responsible for most of
the drums/loops/keyboards (and some of the guitars), and they’re adept
at knowing when to jump in, picking up “Stars” just as Sim seems to get
bored with it, spicing “VCR”, the band’s quaintest, simplest pop song
(“You/ You just know/ You just do”), with small xylophone melodies.

That all said, the record is not a complete break with recent sounds:
tune in during certain moments of “Crystalised”, and you’ll hear the
flecked, staccato guitars of Interpol. “Infinity”‘s slow-strummed
electric chords feel like late-period Radiohead. But xx is nervy
and self-contained, the product of a new band thinking a lot harder
about topics– sex, composition, volume– than we are accustomed to new
bands thinking. It is so fully formed and thoughtful that it feels like
three or four lesser, noisier records should have preceded it. The xx
didn’t need a gestation period, though xx is nuanced, quiet, and surprising enough that you might.

Slaughterhouse
– Where Sinners Dwell Lyrics
Slaughterhouse – Coming Home Lyrics
Ryan Leslie – Riviera Flow (feat. Raekwon) Lyrics
Lil Wayne – No Lie Remix Lyrics
Slaughterhouse
– Truth Or Truth, Pt. 1 Lyrics
Schoolboy Q – Party Lyrics
Kendrick
Lamar – Westside, Right on Time Lyrics
Ellie
Goulding – Anything Could Happen Lyrics

STEREO IQ PREVIEW: we explain the sexual lyrics of The XX

The xx – Angels Lyrics
The xx – Chained Lyrics
The xx – Fiction Lyrics
The xx – Missing Lyrics
The xx – Our Song Lyrics
The xx – Reunion Lyrics
The xx – Sunset Lyrics
The xx – Swept Away Lyrics
The xx – Tides Lyrics
The xx – Try Lyrics
The xx – Unfold Lyrics

NEW RICK ROSS

Rap Genius Brazil — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:24:38 +0000

This is the first movie with the duo Hill & Spencer, who would give the Italian western a new breath (and a new face) in the years to come. But this is not a comedy: it’s dark, sinister and violent. The film opens with a magnificent scene: a welcome party is waiting for the train to arrive, but when it does, it rolls on, and on, into the barricade at the end of the line. The train seems empty, but in reality it was robbed and all the passengers were massacred, except for one, a wounded man who was left for dead and apparently has lost his senses.

It’s a discomforting scene, setting the tone for the film’s sinister atmosphere. Shortly after, we learn the only survivor lived long enough to tell the name of the bandit who robbed the train to a man called Hutch, who works as an investigator for an insurance company. The name, Bill San Antonio, belongs to a man who is believed to be shot in a duel by a gunman called Cat Stevens. Hutch reckons Cat also wants to find out what is going on, and proposes to join forces, but Cat prefers to work alone. He shakes off Hutch and sets out to find Bill San Antonio, with Hutch on his trail. When Cat is captured by the bandits, Hutch saves his life. Now the two men team up “to steal the stolen money” from the sadistic bandit and annihilate his gang in a final showdown.

Rick Ross – 911 Lyrics
Rick Ross – Amsterdam Lyrics
Rick Ross – Sixteen Lyrics
Rick Ross – Ashamed Lyrics
Rick Ross – Diced Pineapples Lyrics
Rick Ross – 3 Kings Lyrics
Rick Ross – Presidential Lyrics
Rick Ross – Hold Me Back Lyrics
Rick Ross – So Sophisticated Lyrics
Rick Ross – Maybach Music IV Lyrics
Rick Ross – Ice Cold Lyrics
Rick Ross – Pirates Lyrics
Rick Ross – Pray For Us Lyrics
Rick Ross – Ten Jesus Pieces Lyrics
Rick Ross – Touch’N You Lyrics

NEW SHIT ON RAP GENIUS!

Rap Genius Brazil — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:36:35 +0000

Some DOPE new RG tracks this week!

This week saw the release of one of the most anticipated albums of the year, Nas’ Life Is Good. The melancholy, nostalgic look at the rapper’s childhood and his recent divorce — perhaps rap’s first attempt at a Blood on the Tracks or Here, My Dear — more than lived up to expectations. In addition to Nas the Don, plenty of other great music hit the streets this week as well. In this edition of LOTW, Tanya Morgan’s Vonpea takes us back to bright colors and funny haircuts, Mistah F.A.B. learns the alphabet, G. Rap gives us some poly-syllabic craziness, and Freeway gives us a history lesson. Below, the lines of the week:

Hopsin – Ill Mind of Hopsin 5 Lyrics
Rick Ross – 3 Kings Lyrics
Kendrick Lamar – Swimming Pools Lyrics

Nas’ Life Is Good

Rap Genius Brazil — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:58:24 +0000

Over 18 years ago, a 20-year-old Nas released what is arguably the greatest hip-hop album of all-time, “Illmatic”. In the years since, Nas has seen the world via his multiple tours, has acted in a few TV shows & movies, and released 8 other solo albums, as of 2011. However, all of these have fallen a little short of the caliber of his iconic debut. So, with his tenth solo studio album, his last under his deal with Def Jam, Nas aims to further solidify his place as a hip-hop legend & release a successful album for the third decade in a row.

LIFE IS GOOD

1. No Introduction
Nas sets the album up perfectly with this track. He gives us three verses that cover the subject matter of most of the album, by juxtaposing his humble roots & his life in the streets with his current lavish life style, as well as weaving tales of his exploits with women & the biggest women in his life thus far, his ex-wife Kelis Rogers. The lyricism of Nas is unquestionable, and the dense rhyme schemes present throughout his discography are also in this song, and the whole album. On this song in particular, he delivers these rhymes over an anthemic J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League beat filled with piano, guitars, big drum hits & other sounds, creating a very good intro.

2. Loco-Motive featuring Large Professor
The simple three-note bass line mixed with the snare hits throughout the song make this beat literally sound like it is a locomotive train. This instrumental & the choir intro create the setting of a New York subway as Nas reminisces on his success & his life in New York. As Nas proclaims, this track was made for people stuck in the 90’s, and Nas made a solid cut out of that concept.

3. A Queens Story
Nas gives us an ode to Queens, New York here, dedicating this song to all the men who have fallen to the Queens street life. Both the fast, swelling strings throughout the song & the sampled classic Chopin piano composition of the fourth verse match the lyrical content to create a very eerie atmosphere, making this a great song.

4. Accident Murderers featuring Rick Ross
The organ & choral background vocals set a churchy feel for this track that finds Nas meditating on beef & murders in the streets, and Rick Ross delivering a relatively off-topic-yet-strong verse, much like he did on Kanye’s “Devil in a New Dress”. Not only does this song present the only rapping feature on the album, it also includes the only real hook from Nas himself. Mixed with the beat, those two things make this track stand out from most of the others in a positive way

5. Daughters
Switching straight from two tracks about death & murders, Nas transitions right into one about a life he brought into this planet. A now separated parent, Nas struggles with the task of raising a daughter, especially in the Internet age and especially with the reputation he has. Kaye Fox’s background vocals over No I.D.’s beat accentuate Nas’s rhymes perfectly on this one, giving us a touching piece.

6. Reach Out featuring Mary J. Blige
Blige’s always powerful vocals flow seamlessly over this instrumental straight from the boom-bap era. Nas’s commentary on his lifestyle also fit nicely, and we learn that though his life is good, it still bears problems. This combination produced another good track.

7. World’s An Addiction featuring Anthony Hamilton
Nas explores the vice of people from himself, to a pastor addicted to bestiality porn, to a doctor planning to kill his ex-wife. This song is filled with a powerful string section & Anthony Hamilton’s assistance deepens the dark mood. Nas builds upon this, executing perfectly. Everything works together magnificently here in what is certainly one of my favorite cuts from the album.

8. Summer On Smash featuring Swizz Beats & Miguel
This seems to be an attempt at making a radio single, judging by the presence of Swizz & Miguel to create the hook. Although it may work as that, this is probably my least favorite song from the album. We only get 24 bars total from Nas, all about girls in the summer, and there seems to be something off about Miguel’s vocals here. This is one of the few dim spots on the album, yet it’s still at least a decent song

9. You Wouldn’t Understand featuring Victoria Monet
The instrumental and vocals of Victoria Monet create an upbeat mood for this song, and Nas’s verses have a happy conclusion. Although he starts by telling us the unfortunate outcomes of some of the people he knew, he reminds us that he made it out of the streets safely and is living the life now. Not one of the best tracks, but not bad.

10. Back When
The background vocals & MC Shan sample continue to show No I.D.’s creativeness that has been present throughout this album, and Nas capitalizes on this beat. He delivers two very impressive verses contrasting modern rap with how it was when he started. Following two songs that kind of slowed the momentum of the album down, it gets back on track here.

11. The Don
This song moves along really quickly with Nas’s clean, rapid-fire rhymes, the hectic-yet-refined drum-heavy beat, and the great Super Cat vocals. I honestly don’t see anything wrong with this track. The hardest-hitting beat on the album with three of the best verses. Love it

12. Stay
We get another drastic transition here, as we move straight from the most up-tempo song on the album to the most laid back one. The smooth, saxophone-driven beat is complimented by some clean vocals which set Nas up to rhyme in an apparently effortless style. He tells us of two complicated relationships he has, one with a freaky woman dating another famous person, and another one with a man Nas has beef with. This transitions the album into a more personal section, and does so in great fashion.

13. Cherry Wine
The drum-line sampled from James Brown’s “Funky Drummer” is accentuated by some bells and more background vocals. Nas once again seems very relaxed here, delivering two verses about his soulmate, whom he can’t seem to find. The post-humous Amy Winehouse hook finds her giving the female side of this song, also trying (and failing) to find her soulmate. This is a great duet, as the two really seem like they had good chemistry.

14. Bye Baby
The woman who wore the green wedding dress pictured on the album cover makes one of her first appearances here, and she gets a whole song dedicated to her. Nas gives us many of the details of his marriage here, from the day they wed to their divorce. At one of the pauses in the beat, Nas delivers one of the most powerful lines of the album, letting us know that money isn’t the only thing he lost in the divorce. Nas’s rides the beat with ease once again, present another great song. Notably, the “Bye Baby” chant of the hook can be a bit ambiguous here, as it can not only wave goodbye to Kelis, but also conclude the album, with the standard version ending here.

DELUXE VERSION ADDITIONAL TRACKS
15. Nasty
Nas gets back to his heavy rhymes with this track that wouldn’t seem out of place on Illmatic. The breakbeat, scratches, lyricism, lack of a hook, everything; it all is what originally let us know of Nas’s return, back when it was released over a year ago. If it tells you anything of this song’s quality, it was voted the number one hip-hop song of 2011 by RapGenius users

16. The Black Bond
With a heavy bass line and strings that seem like they were pulled straight from a horror film, Salaam Remi did a great job of creating a dark mood for this piece, even though there’s hardly anything dark about the lyrics. Nas tells us of a couple of his girls & a man who’s hating on him. Although I feel like Nas could have definitely utilized the atmosphere the beat produces much more, it’s still a good track.

17. Roses
Nikki Flores’s vocals mix with the minor keys to create another dark, chilling atmosphere. Nas spins a tale of the women he dated while he was married to Kelis which led to their divorce, and the animosity she has harbored towards him since. He uses to the beat to his advantage much more here than on the last song, with a positive result.

18. Where’s The Love featuring Cocaine 80’s
In the last cut of the deluxe album, Nas reminds us of his roots in the streets. Over this drum-heavy beat, Nas gives us 54 bars broken up by a great Cocaine 80’s hook, telling us of the risk of the streets with the cops lurking and jail waiting around the corner. This is a perfect example of Nas’s notoriety for delivering incredible rhymes illustrating the streets over a well-picked instrumental.

All in all, this a great album, from start to finish. This is one of those where if I play the first song, I don’t skip any tracks & I can’t pull myself away from the music until it is over. Not many people can stay relevant in the rap game for 20 years, and Nas proved with this album that he definitely can. The breakbeats Nas has used dating back to Illmatic are still present, and so is the impeccable lyricism & dense rhymes; throughout the years & everything Nas has been through, though, his subject matter has expanded, and he also rhymes over a wider array of beats.

This isn’t quite a flawless album, as there are surely some things that could have been left off and others that could have been added, but it’s certainly a great album. There’s no doubt in my mind that this should make everyone’s end-of-the-year lists, and I feel that a few of these songs will stand the test of time.

Judging by the fact that there were no songs I truly disliked here, and quite a few that I truly liked, I’d give this album a high 8 or low 9, on a scale to 10. A very strong album, and here’s to hoping that Nasty Nas has more to come in the future.

–RapGenius Moderator Screv6

Nas – Cherry Wine Lyrics
Nas – World’s An Addiction Lyrics
Nas – Back When Lyrics
Nas – The Black Bond Lyrics
Nas – Bye Baby Lyrics
Nas – Where’s The Love Lyrics
Nas – Daughters Lyrics
Nas – Loco-Motive Lyrics
Nas – Reach Out Lyrics
Nas – The Don Lyrics
Nas – Summer On Smash Lyrics
Nas – Nasty Lyrics
Nas – No Introduction Lyrics
Nas – A Queens Story Lyrics
Nas – Accident Murderers Lyrics
Nas – Roses Lyrics
Nas – Stay Lyrics
Nas – Trust Lyrics
Nas – You Wouldn’t Understand Lyrics

New Frank Ocean

Rap Genius Brazil — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:36:21 +0000

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On the heels of his monumental announcement of his sexual preference (see above), it would be an understatement to say that the buzz surrounding Frank Ocean has been at an all-time high. Whether it’s in a positive or a negative light, everyone’s talking about the Odd Future crooner and giving their opinions on him and the future of his career.

With his public exposure being at an all time high, Frank’s highly anticipated debut album Channel ORANGE was officially released tonight on iTunes, a week earlier than originally scheduled.

Whatever your opinion is on Ocean, there’s no denying the guy’s ability to craft dope songs and I fully expect Channel ORANGE to be no different.