Frank Ocean new album Blonde: Read Tyler, The Creator's poem Tricolour for Boys Don't Cry magazine
'The early chapters of my book included bus passes / Now its tire traction off like fuck crashes, ask him how? '

After four years, Frank Ocean finally unleashed the follow-up to 2012’s Channel Orange titled Blonde.
Instead of a normal release, however, the singer decided to release two versions of the album, one of which is available digitally, while the other fans could pick up from pop-up shops around the world.
The physical version came intwined with a magazine containing various pictures and poems, including one by Kanye West about McDonalds.
There is also one, titled Tricolours, from former Odd Future bandmate Tyler, the Creator, who Tweeted after the album’s release "THANKS BIG BRO FOR ALLOWING ME TO BE APART OF IT.” Read the entire poem before, as transcript by The Fader.
Tyler, The Creator's Tricolours
The early chapters of my book included bus passes
Now its tire traction off like fuck crashes, ask him how?
Insurance higher than the lease bill, run flats when the feet peel
Fish tail, the boy eats meals, tummy ache from my cheap thrills
Granny hug the way the seat feel, on the left turn, leave the neck burned
From the frost bit links, size of an earth worm, wasted on last check earned
I’m, expecting this so it aint odd, two 5’s on the paint job, lactose, wide body, fat ghost
Granny's watch over me when I act slow, rev till I plateau
Keys sorted on the hip, Jeff Gordon is his mind, life’s forza on the strip
Switch gears like I take breaths, wish I had 8
Left 6 got skipped, went to 7th from the 5th
More advance than your average,
I like coupes, two shit
When my friends pull up, stops turn into a pageant
But until I get that enzo, its chapter uno
But I know what that bus pass turned into, its magic
Meanwhile, the artist behind Ocean’s visual album Endless has revealed that a 140 hour version of the video exists.
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