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? '

Jack Shepherd
Monday 22 August 2016 15:41 BST
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Tyler, The Creator performs in Pittsburgh, SA in June 2014. He's not a U2 fan.
Tyler, The Creator performs in Pittsburgh, SA in June 2014. He's not a U2 fan.

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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