Frank Ocean new album Blond: Read Kanye West's poem 'The McDonald's Man' penned for magazine
'The french fries had a plan/ The salad bar and the ketchup made a band/ Cus the french fries had a plan'
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Your support makes all the difference.Frank Ocean has gone from the most brilliantly frustrating musician in the game to a shower of gifts.
With fans waiting four years for the musician's sophomore album; Ocean suddenly opened the floodgates this weekend, releasing visual album Endless, single "Nikes", and Blond itself; the feverishly-anticipated LP which once donned long-time moniker Boys Don't Cry. Ocean also released an accompanying zine, which actually still bears the name Boys Don't Cry, turning up in pop-up shops set up in New York, London, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
The 360-page magazine features interviews with Ocean's mother and Lil B, alongside Ocean's own photography; with a multi-scene screenplay penned by Ocean, horoscopes, and a section entitled "hopes and dreams".
It also, rather intriguingly, features a poem contributed by Kanye West; entitled "McDonald's Man", in which West writes of a deep animosity for french fries, or whatever part of society the french fry would inevitably come to represent.
You can read the full text below (via Hot New Hip Hop):
McDonalds Man
McDonalds Man
The french fries had a plan
The french fries had a plan
The salad bar and the ketchup made a band
Cus the french fries had a plan
The french fries had a plan
McDonalds Man
McDonalds
I know them french fries have a plan
I know them french fries have a plan
The cheeseburger and the shakes formed a band
To overthrow the french fries plan
I always knew them french fries was evil man
Smelling all good and shit
I don't trust no food that smells that good man
I don't trust it
I just can't
McDonalds Man
McDonalds Man
McDonalds, damn
Them french fries look good tho
I knew the Diet Coke was jealous of the fries
I knew the McNuggets was jealous of the fries
Even the McRib was jealous of the fries
I could see it through his artificial meat eyes
And he only be there some of the time
Everybody was jealous of them french fries
Except for that one special guy
That smooth apple pie
Frank Ocean's Blond is currently available to stream from Apple Music.
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