Obvio BNT en Pitchfork para Purity.
“Purity” is built on top of a snippet of Hill’s “I Gotta Find Peace of Mind,” a spare, lovesick performance pulled from her MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 album. It’s the kind of instantly recognizable sample few producers this side of Kanye would touch but here, the production team (Rocky, Dean Blunt, FnZ, and Hector Delgado) transform Hill’s vocal line and guitar figure, giving the clip a new meditative quality. Frank takes the first crack at the beat, allowing his flow to unfurl slowly before breaking into a sprint with the line, “Woof woof, dogs in the place,” an absurd sequence of words that sound great tumbling out of his mouth at top speed. From there we get the sort of dizzying, rapid-fire verse that proves Ocean could be one of the best rappers working, if only he felt like it (one particularly vivid stretch: “Brute force, brut champagne, tell the front desk to cut new keys/Reserved in the Mercer for two years, two suites, took out the bed like it's fuck sleep”).
