Frank Ocean appears to relish being hip-hop’s largest enigma. The reclusive singer proved it once more this week when he introduced a brand new challenge that after once more pushes the envelope. Ocean’s Homer firm is providing up the 48-page booklet Mutations, which is described as a “retrospective of paintings from October 19 to December 22, 2022” that includes images taken by Ocean.
Essentially the most intriguing half? The $75 e-book is described as being “offset printed on tissue-weight paper.” The duvet picture is of a shirtless man in yellow pants and an identical baseball cap in entrance of a collection of blurry images of one other man sporting sun shades.
The e-book is the primary new challenge from Ocean since his controversial headlining set at this summer time’s Coachella Pageant, throughout which he took the stage an hour later than scheduled, didn’t provide up any merchandise and carried out in a small area in entrance of a large display screen that rendered the singer laborious to identify.
Following the complicated set, Ocean’s reps issued a press release revealing that he’d suffered a severe harm earlier within the week that led to a radically reworked manufacturing that didn’t invovle the full-sized ice skating rink he’d initially envisioned on stage.
“After struggling an harm to his leg on competition grounds within the week main as much as weekend 1, Frank Ocean was unable to carry out the meant present however was nonetheless intent on performing, and in 72 hours, the present was reworked out of necessity,” it learn. “On physician’s recommendation, Frank is just not capable of carry out weekend 2 on account of two fractures and a sprain in his left leg.”
Ocean was changed by the reunited Blink-182 on the second weekend. Ocean has not launched a brand new full-length album since 2016’s Blonde; his most up-to-date music got here within the type of the singles “Cayendo” and “Expensive April, which got here out in March 2020.
