Channel Orange LimitedStock Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore

Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore

herbs and spices effortlessly with the touch of a button

Shot in December of 2009

but faced difficulty being accepted as an artist in his own right by figures in the music industry

Channel Orange LimitedStock Shaun Murphy (Freddie HighmoreFrank Ocean has character. He's rare. In a world that divvies up art by genre, that constantly seeks to quantify cool, he is impossible to miss, like a panda bear in a pine forest. And over the past year or so, he's become harder and harder to ignore. Frank had long labored behind the curtain writing for Brandy, Justin Bieber, and John Legend but after hooking up with L. A.'s Odd Future collective, he self released 2011's nostalgia, ULTRA. mixtape,