The year's biggest breakthrough artist has undoubtedly been Frank Ocean. With a slew of Grammy nominations capping a seductive year of headlines and heartthrobbing songs with unswerving thoughtfulness and soul, he's won the hearts and ears of women, men, boys, girls, and everyone in between on a massive scale. Watching him hallucinate in a strip club he probably doesn't want to be in and then break out on his own for a sky-melting motorcycle ride in a suit is an indelible anecdote in the ascent of one of music's newfound princes. The thing about pyramids is that they only point up.





