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  Frank Ocean's 'Pink Matter' Remix Wedges in Big Boi Verse for Disjointed OutKast Reunion

  January 12, 2013 – If Frank Ocean's recent run-in with the law meant he's good at being bad and bad at being good, he redeems himself as a Good Samaritan for reuniting OutKast, at last, on a remix of channel ORANGE track "Pink Matter." As previously reported, both Big Boi and Andre 3000 did time in the studio, separately, during the making of Ocean's Grammy-nominated Best Album of 2012, but due to some behind-the-scenes drama that spilled onto Twitter, An …
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  Frank Ocean Busted for Weed, Rap Blogs Busted for Ridiculousness

  January 3, 2013 – Update: Frank Ocean has commented via Twitter. See below.Frank Ocean was pulled over for speeding in Mono County, California, on New Year's Eve and wound up with a ticket for marijuana possession. …
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  Frank Ocean Will Get His 'Pink Matter' OutKast Reunion

  January 2, 2013 – It's a big week for a Big Boi. Not only has the Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors mastermind dropped the video for his ratchet-ass Atlanta-repping single "In the A," he's announced that he'll be recording vocals for a new version of Frank Ocean's "Pink Matter." The original recording of the song — found on SPIN's Album of the Year, channel ORANGE — features General Patton's former OutKast compatriot André 3000. …
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  Frank Ocean's 'Django Unchained' Outtake 'Wiseman' Is a Gorgeous Humanist Ballad

  December 23, 2012 – Our initial hopes for Frank Ocean's Oscar eligibility were dashed when the Django Unchained soundtrack was announced and the Los Angeles soul man was conspicuously absent despite an early confirmation, via GQ, that he'd contributed. Shortly thereafter, director Quentin Tarantino explained: "Ocean wrote a fantastic ballad that was truly lovely and poetic in every way, there just wasn't a scene for it. …
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  'Great Gatsby' Invites Frank Ocean, Jack White, Florence, and Filter to the Party

  December 20, 2012 – Among the numerous stylistic standouts and anachronistic oddities that gave Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996) its distinct charm, the soundtrack played paramount. His forthcoming F. …
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  Frank Ocean Is Not Retiring From Music

  December 17, 2012 – So far the big news around the blogosphere from the Guardian's recent interview with notoriously interview-averse Frank Ocean has been that he said he "might not make another album. I might just write a novel next."Granted, considering channel ORANGE was SPIN's No. …
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  Anti-YouTube Movement of the Year: Long Songs

  December 17, 2012 – The received wisdom is that popular music is the province of short attention spans, which are only getting shorter: Listeners only care about callout hooks; albums are obsolete now that they're purchased one song at a time and played on shuffle; and we’re all channel-surfing from YouTube video to YouTube video. …
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  No Trivia's Top 50 (Mostly Rap) Songs of 2012's Second Half

  December 14, 2012 – Not sure what happened here, folks, but I really wandered into my own world this second half of the year! No radio hits unless Chinx Drugz and French Montana's hyper-regional hit “I'm a Coke Boy” counts. …
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  See Frank Ocean Sing Radiohead's 'Fake Plastic Trees' at Spotify Gig

  December 11, 2012 – Frank Ocean's famous, emotion-filled falsetto must owe at least a little bit to Thom Yorke of Radiohead, whose Kid A rocker "Optimistic" he affectionately samples on his 2011 debut mixtape nostalgia, ULTRA's "Bitches Talkin'" interlude. …
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  Spotify Gets Metallica, New Discovery Features as Frank Ocean Sings 'Pyramids'

  December 6, 2012 – Today, Spotify held a "What's Next?" press conference simultaneously in New York and London to address upgrades and respond to recent accusations about the miniscule sums paid to artists whose music is available on the streaming service. Lars Ulrich, Metallica drummer and famed commando in Internet music wars, was also on hand to announce that Metallica's entire catalog would finally be available on Spotify. …
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