Joe Budden and crew criticise Frank Ocean for pulling out of Coachella.
This month, Frank Ocean made his return to the stage as he headlined the 1st week of Coachella 2023. The singer received criticism for his performance which initially planned to have an ice rink and dozens of skaters but suddenly called off.
Following the performance, the singer abruptly cancelled his performance for weekend 2, stating he suffered a leg injury. “After suffering an injury to his leg on festival grounds in the week leading up to weekend 1. Frank Ocean was unable to perform the intended show but was still intent on performing, and in 72 hours, the show was reworked out of necessity.” “On doctor’s advice, [Ocean] is not able to perform weekend 2 due to two fractures and a sprain in his left leg.”
“‘It was chaotic. There is some beauty in chaos. It isn’t what I intended to show but I did enjoy being out there and I’ll see you soon.’,” Ocean said in a statement.
Now the whole thing was discussed on the Joe Budden podcast, where the rapper turned podcaster called Frank Ocean a scammer. “Frank Ocean is a scammer,” Budden said. “He’s a scammer for the way he got out of his Universal contract. I think most of the scams are genius. He’ll always wear the scammer tag for me. That f*cked up a lot of artists, he didn’t care. Lost a lot of artist revenue streams, took Apple out the game, he didn’t care. But I’m not so mad at that. Apple exclusive deals where Apple comes and pays a sh*t-ton of money to come have the project exclusive to Apple for a week, two weeks, something like that.”
He continued, “Frank Ocean was in his Def Jam contract so he could not do that. He had one album left to deliver to Def Jam and they had a hard time negotiating around that. It’s rumored that Apple gave Frank Ocean the money to give Def Jam to even everything out and handed them an album, and then he was out of that deal. But then the very next day, he put out the other album on Apple.”
The fans are still waiting for another album from the Long beach singer. Ocean last released an album in 2016, when he dropped his fourth studio effort “Blonde”. In the same year, he also released his third studio album “Endless”.
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