Frank Ocean’s Mom: “Son, Can We Crop Kim Burrell Out of Your Song?”
Katonya Breaux has asked her son, Frank Ocean, to take gospel singer Kim Burrell off of his Blonde track “Godspeed.” Burrell recently delivered a homophobic church sermon, during which she described homosexuality as “perverted”—a position she later reiterated in a Facebook live video, where she called homosexuality a “sin… against the nature of God.” In another tweet, Breaux added, “I mean damn. Hypocrisy and the inciting of hate pisses me off. Opportunistic &?%#€!!.” See her tweets below.
Frank Ocean famously came out publicly as gay in 2012, shortly before the release of his album Channel Orange. In September 2010, he posted a video of Burrell performing “Home” on his Tumblr. In a note, he wrote about being raised in a Christian household, and closed the paragraph writing, “the lady in the video…summa cum laude.”
Following her sermon, Burrell was dropped from a scheduled performance on “Ellen” with Pharrell. The two were set to sing their track “I See a Victory” from the Hidden Figures soundtrack. Both Pharrell and Hidden Figures star Janelle Monáe have since condemned Burrell and hate speech.
Pitchfork has reached out to Frank Ocean’s representatives for comment.
Me: Son, can we crop Kim Burrells voice out of your song??
— katonya breaux (@katonya) January 1, 2017
I mean damn. Hypocrisy and the inciting of hate pisses me off. Opportunistic &?%#€!!
— katonya breaux (@katonya) January 1, 2017
Listen to “Godspeed”:
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