![]() STORY: Beyonce Voices Support of Frank Ocean Through Poetry In it, he admits that Ocean’s sudden mainstream success - Ocean has penned songs for Beyonce and Justin Bieber and collaborated with Kanye West and Jay-Z - has managed to eclipse his own. Meanwhile, Tyler the Creator, the eccentric leader of the Odd Future hip-hop collective where Ocean got his start, pays homage to his protege in a short interview given to GQ for their 2012 Men of the Year series. ![]() Instead of backfiring, however, the deeply personal revelation elicited a tidal wave of support - and rocketed Ocean’s career to the next level. Ocean revealed in a Tumblr post written last July that he had fallen in love with another man - a courageous act for an artist working within an infamously homophobic industry. ![]() Responding to the torrent of fan comments that accompanied the photo, Ocean wrote, “Lol y’all are crazy. But the new photo of Cartier and Ocean is a little different from the others: Rather than a candid snapshot, it looks to be taken from a movie screen - leading many fans to believe that Cartier has been cast in the next music video from Ocean’s acclaimed debut album, Channel Orange, which on Monday was named Spin‘s Album of the Year. ![]()
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