one year

that was more than half a decade ago damn

He’s probably still grieving the loss of his brother. So I cut him some slack. It’s fans that call him a top 3 artist after 1 album that I got smoke for.

Bro said three shows from 5 years ago solidified his live performance reputation

more mad at people who say nU > Blonde and Channel Orange like

All my life my parents wanted me to be a doctor, and at age 2 I was already telling people I was going to be a doctor when I didn't even know what that meant. I promise I'm going somewhere related to Frank with this. They constantly guilted me saying they dropped everything in their lives to immigrate to Canada only so that I could become a doctor, and all of their sacrifice and selflessness was for that.

Any grades under 95 or calls from teachers about acting up (which I did a lot, because I was being f***ed up at home) were severely scolded, beaten, yelled at, toys and video games broken, drawing books torn up, and they would even give me the silent treatment for days. These were rare occasions though, because I was always the top of my class.

On the other hand, when I was performing well (most of the time) I was showered in praise and gifts and could have and do whatever I wanted, and all of my friends were jealous. They would literally take me anywhere, do anything, and buy anything that they could afford. I went to weekend and night schools to study material ahead of my age group, skipped a grade, was in gifted programs, etc.

This led to severe anxiety and perfectionist tendencies, and by the time I was in university I was an emotional wreck. I got into the top engineering school in my country, and was supposed to get an engineering undergrad while preparing for MCATS then apply for med school and become a doctor.

I had severe panic attacks, self isolation, deathly fear of failure, and was super depressed. On days I had exams, I would go to campus 30-45 minutes early, completely confident that I would ace them, and could not get myself to walk into the exam rooms.

I just couldn't make myself go in and write the exams, and I would just run and hide in the bathrooms and puke. I was prepared and had studied for hours. Same thing for any assignments, I would finish them but be too scared to hand them in. I ended up failing every class in my first year of university and I couldn't tell my parents, so I pretended I was still in school. I told them I got scholarships so they were not suspicious when we didnt need to pay tuition year after year.

I did this for 5 years straight, every day going to my schools campus, hiding in the bathroom or library, then coming home as if I had been attending school. My mental health spiraled out of control, I gained 90lbs of fat, got into a codependent toxic relationship and then got dumped, and eventually I just couldn't deal with the pressure and lying to everyone, and I realized I couldnt keep it up much longer, so I attempted suicide. Took sleeping pills, went into my garage, turned the car on and closed the garage doors, and just went to sleep. I didn't die, and was woken up in the morning by my mom, after which s*** hit the fan, but long story short I got therapy and treatment and I'm much better now.

My point is though, you can put so much effort into something but the pressure of doing amazingly can make you crumble in the last moments and make it impossible to actually perform. I only had pressure from my family and friends, and it completely ruined my life and almost killed me. Frank has pressure from millions of people, after being praised as amazing, after not dropping an album for 7 years, so the pressure thats built up must be insane, and he recently lost his brother on top of all of that. Not saying what he did was right, but if he has perfectionism issues like me, I can totally sympathize with him.

Too soon for him

Real as always. Followed

Endless> all of them

don't agree put can respect this

Frank can’t be serious man

reddit.com/r/FrankOcean/comments/12szoz1/clip_of_frank_leaving_w1

THEY CAUGHT HIS ASS LYING

Elite Generational Scammer

Compared to his contemporaries…yes lol

Who are his contemporaries ?

this era must've been really bad if the best R&B artist is one that's given you one solid year of live performances if we keeping it a buck.

I could cut slack for that too & I think Frank is one of the most impactful and influential artists of the 10’s which is why people regard him as top 3

but with that comes with consistency of showing out, and having those performances like a ye, Beyoncé etc but when someone of that stature is not reliable in these cases then I can see why ppl won’t see him as a goat

What influence does Frank have?

Aesthetic, style, sound imo

Just let me have it bro

I genuinely do not know what style, or signature aesthetic Frank had, educate me please. Who came up under that? Sound, same thing, but I sorta see it. Because 2011 when cO dropped I can’t think of too many artist with a similar vibe

Frank like one of them girls in middle school who would roll their ankle so they could flex a cast and not go to gym for two weeks

yeah you right , cO is seen as quite a package of some impactful songs and aesthetic. I would say frank birthed the tumblrfication of his style and just incorporated that throughout his career &

Frank as a behind the scenes writer also contributes to this, Jay Z has said (quite recently) that Frank has the greatest music in his vault, I think he said the best in the world

. frank worked with Jay, Beyoncé and ye early on in his career. I think those guys saw the potential

I ❤️ Frank Ocean