billionsoffuck asked: Explain your current situation to your five-years-ago self.
Frank Ocean: wow. alrite. i’ll give it a shot…
hey chris,
your name is frank now..it’s a long story. your girlfriend is about to break up with you because of the long distance. it’s ok. & that job you’re working..well, you’re gonna have to work there for another year and some months.. & then you’re gonna get fired. you’re gonna work a couple more jobs after that too. nothing glamorous. kinkos and at&t if you really want the specifics. but you’re never gonna be homeless or starving. don’t worry you won’t fail and have to move back to new orleans either. you are gonna get your heartbroken though. twice. if it helps, the first one is gonna be worse than the second. contrary to how it feels, it won’t kill you. in fact it’s gonna help you write an album. yea, you finally finished an album. people like it man. you’re actually gonna write and record hundreds of songs. they won’t all be good and most ppl won’t think you’re talented at first, but you’re going to master your gifts. you’re going to become a lot stronger and wiser..even a little taller. be patient. i mean, you kind of have no choice. and be good to people. i don’t wanna spoil too much for you, but.. you’re on a plane right now to the east coast to work with kanye west & jay-z. it’s all working out kid. you made it.
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with the video and the letter to himself, this post is the shit
Damn we all need to write letters to ourselves 5 years ago, especially those of use that just graduated. So many of us have “you’re on a plane right now to the east coast to work with kanye west & jay-z. it’s all working out kid. you made it.” scenarios that this shit gave me the fuckin chills
I fuck with Frank…but the Vaseline killed the video. Dope visuals around him, but that shit was pointless man…sad flaw of the video but all good in general.
So true Cunningbreh. It’s always a trip to reflect on where you’re at and where you’re going. I know 17-year-old Will didn’t see a lot of this shit coming.
i feel you hyph, can we get a swim good video though?
we should all write letters to our younger self’s, but ALSO write letters to our future self, because when shit goes down like we said it would it’ll make it that much sweeter.
haha cunningbreh
i want that swim good video too! I’m a little disappointed in the fact that they didn’t use the narrative that’s already present in novacane. I wanted to see the girl and the ice cold lawn at coachella. Hopefully, if they make a swim good video it will have some of that imagery still in it. I wanna see a towncar with blood dripping from the trunk. His shit’s too visual not to use some of that.
love this post, that letter is awesome
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