Someone knew months ago that Frank Ocean would build a staircase

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When Frank Ocean's began the live stream for Endless last night, what we now know is his visual album, people were a bit confused.

Footage of the singer constructing something was not exactly what folks imagined new music to be rolling out from Ocean.

But Twitter user @mishikwan knew—and warned us all about it months ago.


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"This dude at a bar told me he's teaching frank ocean how to build a staircase for a music video," Mishi tweeted back in March.

That's almost five months before construction began on boysdontcry.co, the site Ocean has been updating with information about new music.

According to the tweets, the carpentry informant spilled the beans broke his non-disclosure agreement by doing so.

"Thanks for breaking your contract to try to impress me," Mishi tweeted. "It didn't work but it's some nice Twitter material dude."

In 2012, producer Dre Skull tweeted about meeting Ocean and it turns out that interaction might have had clues in what transpired over the past few weeks too. When Skull asked Ocean what he did, his response was "install sheetrock."

While he might not have been talking about Endless and building a staircase, turns out Ocean is pretty handy. He explained to Skull that he fixes old BMW cars, and went to New Orleans to help rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.

Were all the clues out there this whole time!? Knowing Ocean, there were probably a million more we all missed.

Now we all need to search for clues about whether Boys Don't Cry really is coming out this weekend.

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