With people putting Frank Ocean’s new album in sentences alongside the likes of Voodoo, Here My Dear, and The White Album (Didion’s, not the Beatles’; but, you know, it’s only been out a week), the arrival of this video of Killer Mike performing a cut off his R.A.P. Music, which came out way back in May, almost seems to say, “Hey, everybody, don’t forget about me! I made the best album of the year so far, too!”
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