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Order also included two bee stickers (1" & 3") and an instant MP3 download.ĭouble gatefold jacket with folded double-sided glossy insert. Okonma is one of the greater curators of musicians and sounds, and Flower Boy proves he is still blossoming into one of hip-hop’s greatest arts and doesn’t intend to slow down soon."Bumble bee yellow" vinyl, made available for pre-order at the Golf Wang online store on 7/27 for one day only. He shows his maturity, and the lyrics are well thought out and introspective, but the production seems one step down from the innovative and shocking Cherry Bomb, and the themes, though layered and complex, don’t quite reach the levels of Wolf’s storytelling. Though an impressive and interesting project, Flower Boy isn’t Okonma’s best album. The song features Ocean and Steve Lacy, and the two beautifully assist the track with their vocals. The song is the epitome of the loneliness theme that surrounds Flower Boy and is probably the most well-crafted song Okonma has written and produced. Lonely.” The song follows a tradition with Okonma’s albums of the 10th song having two parts, hence the “/” in the title. Highlights of the album include the aforementioned “Garden Shed,” which features Estelle, “Who Dat Boy,” featuring A$AP Rocky, and “November,” but the track that stands out most is “911/Mr. Ocean came out as bisexual with the release of his 2012 Grammy-award winning album, Channel Orange, and he was famous for disappearing from the public eye until he released his most recent album, Blonde, last year. Speculation has occurred about Okonma’s sexuality as well with lyrics on numerous tracks such as “Garden Shed”: “Truth is, since a youth kid, thought it was a phase/Thought it’d be like Frank poof, gone/But it’s still going on.” This is in reference to Frank Ocean, a close friend and member of Okonma’s old hip-hop collective, Odd Future. The lyrics also include more stream-of-consciousness formatting in which he seems to delve deeper into his feelings. With maturity has come his admittance of loneliness in his fame, and that is a central theme on the album.
With Flower Boy, it seems that Okonma has matured even more than his self-aware 2015 album, Cherry Bomb.