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Frank Ocean accused of ripping off art from Shapednoise’s Cosmo Rhythmatic label

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His blondedRADIO art has come under scrutiny.

Frank Ocean has been accused of ripping off a poster from Jesse Osborne-Lanthier and Grischa Lichtenberger’s Conversation Sur Lettres Mortes released via Shapednoise’s Cosmo Rhythmatic label last year.

If you look at the tweet below from Osborne-Lanthier, you can see that the artwork for Ocean’s Beats 1 show blondedRADIO is a zoomed out version of the Conversation Sur Lettres Mortes poster.

LOL
been brought to my att that Frank Ocean ripd-off Grischa Lichtenberger n I's poster that came with 'CSLM' on cosmo rhythmatic last year pic.twitter.com/2GEqDgGL2t

— Jesse Osborne-L. (@letempsnoir) June 2, 2017

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