In 2012, he released Channel ORANGE, which veered from Stevie Wonder-style soul to string-led gospel and psychedelia, framing R&B as a kind of rarified art music. He was soulful, funny, understated, and poetic, the kind of writer who made fragments of the real world-a girl doing porn to cover tuition (вЂњNovacaneвЂќ), a dip in the ocean (вЂњSwim GoodвЂќ)-crackle with mystical significance.ДЇrom Kanye, Jay-Z, and BeyoncГ© on down, he gained a cult of followers. Ocean was raised mostly in New Orleans, and moved to Los Angeles in the mid-2000s by 2009, heвЂ™d landed a contract with Def Jam, but couldnвЂ™t square the relationship with his ambitions and ended up releasing his first mixtape, 2011вЂ™s Nostalgia, Ultra, on his own.

Even in his early days as the quiet one in the LA hip-hop collective Odd Future, Ocean seemed possessed by a stoicism and emotional intelligence that was uncommon, luminous-the kind of guy who sees more than he says and doesnвЂ™t waste a word when he opens his mouth. ItвЂ™s that Frank Ocean is one of those songwriters who manages to touch new and distant places in his audienceвЂ™s imagination, a cartographer of intimacy and confession so intrepid and sensitive that listening to him can feel like eavesdropping on something private, maybe even inexpressible. ItвЂ™s not even his style (which seems invincible), or the fact that heвЂ™s one of the few pop artists publicly navigating the frontiers of queer identity. 'ItвЂ™s not just that heвЂ™s an enigma or that he follows his own clock.

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