He supposedly even refused to acknowledge that he had not served as a writer on ‘(At Your Best) You Are Love’ a 1976 Isley Brothers tune that Ocean cut in 2015 and emerged on his visual album Endless. Not to be confused with Blonded Radio. The two had, apparently, an oral agreement for Blonde.īut when Ocean’s lawyers tried between 20 to get him to commit to a written agreement, Keith refused. Ocean and Keith had a written agreement that Keith would understand he was a hired hand, be paid a flat rate and would sign that he had not written or co-written the songs. Keith had helped Ocean produce his breakout record Channel Orange, as did Malay. Blond, Frank Ocean, Blonde, Frank, Music, Channel Orange, Ocean, Rap, Tyler The Creator, Frank Ocean Blond, Hip Hop, Album, Endless, Odd Future, Blonded, Frank Ocean Blond Vinyl, Frank Ocean Blonde Geni Millions of unique designs by independent artists.
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Ocean wants a judge to rule that Keith and the other defendants do not own any part of his song, they must stop claiming they did, and for legal costs. Here Are the Full Credits for Frank Ocean’s Blonde. These were for ‘Be Yourself’, Futura Free’, ‘Godspeed’, ‘Ivy’, ‘Nights’, ‘Nikes’, ‘Pink + White’, ‘Pretty Sweet’, ‘Skyline To’, ‘Solo’ and ‘White Ferrari’. The album under review, is titled Blonde (stylised as Blond) by African American artist Frank Ocean, released in 2016 by Blonded (Beats 1 radio show and label company, conducted by Ocean). Īlso named in the suit are Keith’s company Analog Genius Corporation and several unnamed John Does as defendants, whom Ocean insists “did not own any portion of the copyright rights” to his music and “did not contribute any lyrics, melodies, or music that would give rise to any claim of authorship.”ĭocuments tendered to court say that Ocean’s lawyers tried several times to get Keith to sign a written agreement that he did not write any of the Blonde songs.īut he refused to sign and, it claims, tried to get himself registered as a co-writer. According to credits, Ocean did the production but was helped by a number of producers including Keith, Malay, James Blake, Jon Brion, Buddy Ross, Pharrell Williams and Rostam Batmanglij.
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