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Remain Calm! Frank Ocean Did Not Leave Music For Med School

For all you Frank Ocean fans freaking out over the fact that the singer may have left music for medicine, please relax! The pictures that surfaced are from an old video shoot.
Remain Calm! Frank Ocean Did Not Leave Music For Med School
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By Sydney Scott · Updated October 27, 2020
At this point just the mere mention of Frank Ocean is enough to send fans into hysteria. The world has been waiting impatiently for the Channel Orange singer to drop a new album, but there seems to be no release date in sight. Recently, a photo of Ocean resurfaced of the singer in scrubs, leaving fans to wonder if he’d ditched music for medicine. Frank Ocean Pens Essay About the Orlando Shooting

While we all are waiting for Frank Ocean to drop his new album he out here starting a new career pic.twitter.com/90uVvHsEqY

— FREDDY (@FreddyAmazin) June 28, 2016
But, according to FADER, we can all relax. The image that everyone’s been going wild over is actually from the set of a kind of unofficial video for “Thinkin Bout You” that Ocean appeared in. Frank Ocean – Thinkin’ Bout You from High5Collective on Vimeo. So, everyone can rest easy. Frank is still making music, he’s just taking his sweet time.
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