S3E2 – Thinking About You by Frank Ocean

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.9 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Our serialized examination of the music of Frank Ocean continues with a look at the cultural impact of Frank’s open letter that revealed his sexuality days before the release of Channel Orange. Then we dissect Ocean’s biggest hit to date “Thinking About You.” Follow @dissectpodcast on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect.
0:03.0	Long-For musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes.
0:07.0	I'm your host, Cole Kushna. In August of 2005 a 28-year-old rapper Kanye West appeared on MTV News and promotion of his sophomore
0:25.8	album, Late Registration. Rather than promote his album, he took the opportunity to broadcast
0:31.0	nationally an injustice he saw in hip-hop culture.
0:34.0	Like damn, you know, hip-hop really is about, um, it seems like it's about like fighting for your rights in the beginning,
0:42.0	about speaking your mind and about
0:43.7	breaking down barriers or whatever but everybody and hip-hop discriminates against gay people. To me like that's one of the standards of
0:56.8	hip-hop is to be like, yo you fag, you're gay. Matter of fact, the exact
1:02.0	opposite word of hip-hop I think is gay.
1:05.0	As the interview continues, an off-camera producer distracts Kagni, causing him to lose his train of thought.
1:11.0	But Kagni is determined to get his message across.
1:13.6	Me speaking for my entire culture,
1:15.8	I'm me looking at my rappers out there,
1:18.8	hip-popers discriminate against gay people. They feel like they can't act.
1:25.0	Hold on one second.
1:27.0	Everybody don't throw me off.
1:28.0	I really want to say this.
1:29.0	I want to say this to America.
1:30.0	I want to...
1:31.0	That's good.
1:32.0	No, he was just throwing me off just lately.
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