Frank Ocean

Songwriter: Frank Ocean

Producer: Frank Ocean

“Things Done Changed” refers to how the street game has evolved, along with Biggie’s own game. He compares the fashion and lifestyle revolution through the decades and the differences between being a kid and becoming a man. He discusses how the streets have got harder and more dangerous, while he explains how facing all that has helped him to be bigger than it all. From a socio-political standpoint, this song could be interpreted as how crack cocaine turned American inner cities into war zones into the mid-late 80s to early 90s. Read more on Last.fm.

Length: 3:58

NO MATTER HOW DIM IT GETS WHEREVER I AM

I never quit working. I work in the dark cause work is light. I tell my work all my problems because it never gives answers i have already. It never edits without me. Doesn’t call me names. I give my work away, because it doesn’t cost me much. In fact i’m indebted. I work hard since life is hard. Death is a soft place, it can wait. But work ain’t love. And love ain’t work. For sure.

Christopher Edwin Breaux, professionally known as Frank Ocean, was born on the 28th of October, 1987 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and has earned cult-icon status with his enigmatic persona and idiosyncratic approach to pop. It is reported that the name “Frank Ocean” was partially inspired by the original Ocean’s 11 (1960) film, which starred Frank Sinatra.

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed his recording studio in New Orleans which prompted his move out to LA, joining hip hop collective Odd Future later in 2009. Ocean started out ghostwriting tracks for pop stars such as Justin Bieber and Beyoncé, but decided on a career

There was a point where I was composing for other people, and it might have been comfy to continue to do that and enjoy that income stream and the anonymity,“ he says. "But that’s not why I moved away from school and away from family.

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