Stream: Frank Ocean, “Wiseman”

Photographer Geordie Wood
December 23, 2012

Early this morning, Frank Ocean released a previously-unheard song to his Tumblr along with a note, "django was ill without it." (Ocean also posted the song's lyrics via a TextEdit doc, titled "wiseman.") In November, Ocean told GQ that he wrote a song for Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film. But Ocean's track doesn't appear on the official soundtrack, and won't be featured in the movie. "Frank Ocean wrote a fantastic ballad that was truly lovely and poetic in every way, there just wasn't a scene for it," Tarantino explained last month. "I could have thrown it in quickly just to have it, but that's not why he wrote it and not his intention. So I didn't want to cheapen his effort."

Stream: Frank Ocean, "Wiseman"

Stream: Frank Ocean, “Wiseman”