![]() Anyone who has listened to near 10-minute opus ‘Pyramids’ should be fully aware that Frank Ocean is so much more than just an unapologetically sentimental cinephile. The only minor gripe one could find in all this was that Ocean’s heart-rending admission dominated his narrative so much that people forget that Channel ORANGE is as much a work about black identity as it is a sexual one. When he released the critically lauded Channel ORANGE just a few days later, critics fell over them trying to contextualise that revelation into Ocean’s picturesque and sincere storytelling. Ocean may not be a rapper, but he’s certainly a part of that world, and his nakedly honest words weren’t an easy fit for the guarded and sometimes homophobic hip hop community. It was so much more than a matter of just “gay hype†though, because the sheer confessional power of the piece is what really disarmed people. I suppose we should expect it, as the seismic tremors of that admission to an unrequited homosexual love are still being felt in the world of urban music all these years later. It has to be said, it’s become something of a cliché to reference that headline-grabbing Tumblr post when writing about Frank Ocean. ![]() ![]() Welcome to One Track Minded, where we pick a select cut from a chosen act and delve beneath the surface. Frank Ocean may well never release that almost mythical second album of his so here’s Mark Conroy to wax lyrical on the 10-minute masterpiece that is ‘ Pyramids’. ![]()
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