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Frank Ocean pens letter to Grammy producers, annihilating them in the process.

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torre_avenue

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Here's the link.

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Ok Ken (and David). As much as I hate to make you guys famous or even respond to you directly. We all die one day and you're old so fuck it. Yea yea my 2013 performance at the Grammys was absolute shit. Technical difficulties, blah blah. Thanks for the reminder. Very much appreciated. Fuck that performance though. You think that's why I kept my work out of the Grammy process this year? Don't you think I would've wanted to play the show to ‘redeem' myself if I felt that way? In reality, I actually wanted to participate in honoring Prince on the show but then I figured my best tribute to that man's legacy would be to continue to be myself out here and to be successful. Winning a TV award doesn't christen me successful. It took me some time to learn that.

I bought all my masters back last year in the prime of my career, that's successful.

Blonde sold a million plus without a label, that's successful.

I am young, black, gifted and independent. That's my tribute. I've actually been tuning into CBS around this time of year for a while to see who gets the top honor and you know what's really not 'great tv' guys? 1989 getting Album of the Year over to pimp a butterfly. Hands down one of the most 'faulty' tv moments I've seen. Believe the people. Believe the ones who'd rather watch select performances from your program on YouTube the day after because your show puts them to sleep. Use the old gramophone to actually listen bro, I'm one of the best alive. And if you're up for a discussion about the cultural bias and general nerve damage the show you produce suffers from then I'm all for it. Have a good night
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That's my GOAT.

EDIT: This is in response to those producers claiming Frank's just mad at the Grammys for letting him "fail" on stage with his 2013 performance.
”Frank had a very definite idea of exactly what he wanted to do and how he wanted to do it," Wild says. ”Ken said, that's not great TV, and what he's taught all of us is, ‘We're not putting on a radio show ... you have to make it a TV moment.' And he knew from the start that that was not one of those moments ... We executed his vision knowing that it was faulty. And we tried to tell him that, we tried to tell his management that, we tried to tell the record label that. So, his feelings about the Grammys right now, I would imagine, probably go back to that in one way. But honestly, it wasn't us."
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It sounds really pompous of them to claim his vision was faulty just because he didn't take their advice. And this is a clapback to that.
 
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torre_avenue

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backflip10019 said:
Would we really call that an annihilation?

Everyone already knows the Grammys suck.
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Well, this is in response to those producers claiming Frank's just mad at the Grammys for letting him "fail" on stage with his 2013 performance.
“Frank had a very definite idea of exactly what he wanted to do and how he wanted to do it,” Wild says. “Ken said, that’s not great TV, and what he’s taught all of us is, ‘We’re not putting on a radio show … you have to make it a TV moment.’ And he knew from the start that that was not one of those moments … We executed his vision knowing that it was faulty. And we tried to tell him that, we tried to tell his management that, we tried to tell the record label that. So, his feelings about the Grammys right now, I would imagine, probably go back to that in one way. But honestly, it wasn’t us.”
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It sounds really pompous of them to claim his vision was faulty just because he didn't take their advice. And this is a clapback to that.
 
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Discotheque

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Lmao. A damn shame I found blond to be kinda lame, still love the dude though. And pure truth here

Who is performing the prince tribute?
 
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torre_avenue

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Discotheque said:
Lmao. A damn shame I found blond to be kinda lame, still love the dude though. And pure truth here

Who is performing the prince tribute?
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They're keeping it close to the vest, but if their tribute to Bowie is going to be any indication of how good it'll be, I don't have high hopes for the performance.
 
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Mimosa97

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I love frank Ocean and I totally agree when he says he's one of the best alive but I don't know why he wrote this. He sounds salty as fuck.
 
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Staccat0

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Why the fuck did young musicians start talking about grammy's again? When I was a kid even acknowledging them was lame as fuck. Now cool musicians write open letters about them? So weird.

It's a step above a people's choice award I guess.
 
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mattiewheels

And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
the anime man said:
I mean, it's a good album, but over To Pimp a Butterfly? No.
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This is the Grammys, not an award for the most important album of the year. I've never gotten the sense that those guys have recognized the actual greatest album of the year, it's not what they do.

The only reason this complaint works is because it points out that the Grammys don't pick the actual best album over the commercial hit, but to think that this is a new thing is weird.
 
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keenerz

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I wanna bet those "To Pimp a Butterfly" is trash is probably people who pretty much don't like hip hop in the first place. Or top 40 their hip hop selection.
 
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