Knowledge Drop: Frank Ocean Named ‘Nostalgia, Ultra’ 5 Minutes Before Mastering

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Frank Ocean is set to release a new song. On Tuesday morning, customers who ordered 7" vinyls of his Skepta collaboration, "Little Demon," were notified via email that they would not be receiving that song, but rather a new, unreleased song.

Last year, Frank Ocean previewed an Arca remix of an unreleased song called “Little Demon.” He also launched a pre-order for the 7" vinyl edition of “Little Demon.”

Frank Ocean fans who are still awaiting the delivery of their 7" vinyl single of “Little Demon” recently received an email announcing that the planned release has been canceled. Ocean and his team will ship them a vinyl copy of an upcoming, unreleased song instead:

A special 7" record is coming

Today marks the eighth anniversary of pop rock band ​fun.’s second studio album, Some Nights. The lead single, “We Are Young,” became the group’s career-defining hit, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and netting fun. a Grammy for Song of the Year. According to producer Jeff Bhasker, however, the beat was “an inch” away from being on JAY-Z and Kanye West’s joint album, 2011’s Watch the Throne.

If you were on the internet during the last stretches of 2018, you might remember the frenzy surrounding Tumblr’s “adult content” ban. Netizens collectively bemoaned the supposed end of the site, and The Verge later reported that it lost 30 percent of its traffic by early 2019. Naturally, Tumblr regulars had a meme to send off the porn-friendly version of Tumblr: “Fingers in His Ass.”

Earlier this year, Talib Kweli had producer Zaytoven stop by his People’s Party podcast to talk about working with the likes of Gucci Mane and Migos, how cutting hair helped him get into producing, and the influence of the church on his music. One of the interview’s highlights was when Zaytoven recounted the making of his breakout hit, Gucci Mane’s “Icy” featuring Jeezy.

Kanye West’s seminal album, The College Dropout, turned 16 years old last week. The rapper was already well-known in the music industry for his work with rappers like JAY-Z, but the album marked Kanye’s first true artistic statement as a solo artist. The College Dropout went through several iterations before its 2004 release, and back in 2016, his frequent collaborator Consequence shared an early, handwritten version of the tracklist:

Kanye West released his seventh studio album, The Life of Pablo, four years ago today. One of the featured artists is Post Malone, a relative newcomer at the time who was best known for his breakout hit, “White Iverson.” In a 2016 verified annotation, the Texas-raised musician shared how he linked up with Kanye on “Fade,” which also features Ty Dolla $ign.