Msaani mwenye mchango mkubwa kwenye album ya Jayz na Kanye Weat itwayo Watch The Throne katika Nyimbo kama No Church In The Wild na Made In America amekubali kwa mara ya kwanza yeye ni shoga na alianza kujiskia hivyo akiwa na miaka 19 .
Frank Ocean alivyo jigundua ilichukua muda mrefu kuwa na uhakika na hisia zake za kuwa na mahusiano ya kimapenzi na jinsia moja na kama nikitu anataka kwenye maisha yake , pia Frank amesema siri hio ilikuwa ni kama jiwe kubwa kifuani kwake na kwa sasa anajiskia kama mtu huru sana kwenye maisha yake .
Barua ya Frank Ocean ni hii hapa
Whoever you are, where ever you are… I’m starting to
think we’re a lot alike. Human beings spinning on blackness. All wanting
to be seen, touched, heard, paid attention to. My loved ones are
everything to me here. In the last year or 3 I’ve screamed at my
creator, screamed at clouds in the sky, for some explanation. Mercy
maybe. For peace of mind to rain like Manna somehow. 4 summers ago, I
met somebody. I was 19 years old. He was too. We spent that summer, and
the summer after, together.
Everyday almost. And on the days we were
together, time would glide. Most of the day I’d see him, and his smile.
I’d hear his conversation and his silence….until it was time to sleep.
Sleep I would often share with him. By the time I realized I was in
love, it was malignant. It was hopeless. There was no escaping. No
negotiating with the feeling. No choice. It was my first love, it
changed my life. Back then, my mind would wander to the women I had been
with. The ones I cared for and thought I was in love with. I reminisced
about the sentimental songs I enjoyed when I was a teenager.. the ones I
played when I experienced a girlfriend for the first time. I realized
they were written in a language I did not speak. I realized too much,
too quickly. Imagine being thrown from a plane. I wasn’t in a plane
though. I was in a Nissan Maxima, the same car I packed up with bags and
drove to Los Angeles in. I sat there and told my friend how I felt. I
wept as the words left my mouth. I grieved for them, knowing I could
never take them back for myself. He patted my back.
He said kind things.
He did his best, but he wouldn’t admit the same. He had to go back
inside soon. It was late and his girlfriend was waiting for him
upstairs. He wouldn’t tell me for years. Now imagine being thrown from a
cliff. No, I wasn’t on a cliff, I was still in my car telling myself It
was gonna be fine and to take deep breaths. I took the breaths and
carried on. I kept up a peculiar friendship with him because I couldn’t
imagine keeping up my life without him. I struggled to master myself and
my emotions. I wasn’t always successful.
That dance went on… I kept the rhythm for several Summers after. It’s Winter now. I’m typing this on a plane back to Los Angeles from New Orleans. I flew home for another marred Christmas. I have a window seat. It’s December 27 2011. By now I’ve written two albums, this being the second. I wrote to keep myself busy and sane. I wanted to create worlds that were rosier than mine. I tried to channel overwhelming emotions. I’m surprised at how far all of it has taken me.
Before writing this I’d
told some people my story. I’m sure these people kept me alive, kept me
safe.. sincerely. These are the folks I wanna thank from the floor of
my heart. Everyone of you knows who you are.. great humans. Probably
Angels. I don’t know what happens now, and that’s alrite. I don’t have
any secrets I need kept anymore. There’s probably some small shit still,
but you know what I mean. I was never alone, as much as I felt like
it.. As much as I still do sometimes, I never was. I don’t think I ever
could be.
Thanks, to my first love, I’m grateful for you. Grateful that
even though It wasn’t what I hoped for and even though it was never
enough, it was. Some things never are.. and we were. I won’t forget you.
I won’t forget the Summer. I’ll remember who I was then I met you. I’ll
remember who you were and how we’ve both changed and stayed the same.
I’ve never had more respect for life and living than I have right now.
Maybe it takes a near death experience to feel alive. Thanks, to my
Mother. You raised me strong. I know I’m only brave because you were
first.. so thank you. All of you. For everything good. I feel like a
free man. If I listen closely.. I can hear the sky falling too.
-Frank
-Frank
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