So that’s kind of how the whole process went. So we took those and we worked them in and integrated them into the project. There were a couple songs he had from previous situations, but he really felt were a part of this. He did a couple of songs that he wrote with Pharrell. We didn’t write 50 songs and narrow it down. The cool thing is that it’s not like we made a bunch of extra stuff. Sometimes he’d come in and we’d write from scratch and I’d pull up the keyboard and a guitar and start plucking around and next thing you know, we’ve got some cool ideas floating around and maybe it starts turning into a song. Like, I had a couple ideas track-wise that he was writing to. So when we were working it was really just writing. It’s just kind of like this is what I’m doing and, you know, trying to execute. So working with Frank it was that exact situation. I almost want to be transparent, kind of be far under the radar. Nowadays a lot of producers have their own signature sound and no matter who they work with it all has that certain flavor. I’m the type of producer where I’m kind of a more old-school mentality of where I just want to be behind the scenes and just kind of help artists develop their own sounds. He’s the type of artist that’s very focused and he knows exactly what he’s going for. Interview by Brad Wete ( about Frank’s work ethic in the studio. With the release of Channel Orange just days away, Malay took some time out of the studio-where he's been working on cuts for new Motown songstress Stacy Barthe’s debut and Legend’s next set-to talk about how Kanye West, Andre 3000, and John Mayer assisted on Orange, why Ocean (born Christopher Breaux) legally changed his name, and about Frank’s Tuesday revelation. When they were coming up in the bu siness, Ocean and Malay used to work together writing demos for other artists. Ocean’s creative relationship with Malay-who’s worked with John Legend, Jamie Foxx, and Big Boi in the past-goes back a few years. He began crafting the follow-up to his acclaimed mixtape nostalgia, ULTRA last February working alongside co-writer and producer Malay. Ocean's co-writer and producer talks about their creative chemistry.įrank Ocean's forthcoming debut album Channel Orange (due out July 17) was highly anticipated even before Frank Ocean revealed the ‘net-shaking news about his sexuality this week.
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