15 years ago today, Frank Ocean released his iconic ‘nostalgia, ULTRA.’
The bright orange BMW E30 M3 on the cover of the mixtape became one of Frank Ocean’s most iconic visuals, yet it wasn’t actually his car. The image was actually pulled from a 2009 BMW forum listing on https://t.co/WbGqJMJkHo, posted by a user named “Dricebug,” who had photographed the modified 1988 E30 M3 in Hockessin, Delaware.
Frank reportedly found the photo while finalizing the mixtape and chose it because the E30 M3 was his dream car and perfectly matched the project’s themes of nostalgia and summer memories.
Frank never ended up buying the original car photographed from the cover to which was later sold to another forum user under the name "Evans61" for around $12,000. However, years later, Frank fulfilled his dream by purchasing his own orange E30 M3, custom-built by Castro Motorsports.
ROSALÍA: "The idea of we're all one soul was the inspiration for La Yugular. That's studying from Islam and being like, okay, so that's the foundations of it. How can I explain these on a song? I'm going to put these ideas, so beautiful, on a song.
In Arabic, I find it's so interesting how much the air [is] important. At the end of the day, the breath, that's where it all starts. That's why in the beginning of the album, after that piano intro, the beginning is a breath. That's the first human sound on the album. I was struggling with recording in Arabic because I'm not used to [using] my throat like this, to make this space, and I don't even think that I got it right but I tried. That was my love letter to Arabic."
25 years ago today, outkast dropped ‘stankonia’ 💿🔥
a game-changing album that redefined southern rap and took hip-hop to another planet 🛸with hits like “ms. jackson,” “so fresh, so clean,” and “b.o.b.” - andre 3000 & big boi proved they were truly in a league of their own 🏆
favorite tracks?
JID talks about being in the studio with Mac Miller while he was working on ‘Swimming’:
“[Come Back to Earth] almost made me cry watching him record that sht…That’s my boy…He just in there singing his heart out it was beautiful…One of the craziest moments of my career.”