--- title: Frank Ocean: Serenaded Chance the Rapper and His Date description: Chance the Rapper revealed that the elusive Frank Ocean once helped him impress a date by serenading them at his house. canonical: https://time.com/4464999/frank-ocean-chance-the-rapper-gq/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-24T20:36:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:49.709Z og:title: How Frank Ocean Impressed Chance the Rapper's Date og:description: Friendship goals og:url: https://time.com/4464999/frank-ocean-chance-the-rapper-gq/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt129349d4f65624c9/6988a38ca988cabe226b92ea/chance-the-rapper-frank-ocean-date.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 2016 Outside Lands Music And Arts Festival - Day 3 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Frank Ocean Impressed Chance the Rapper's Date twitter:description: Friendship goals twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt129349d4f65624c9/6988a38ca988cabe226b92ea/chance-the-rapper-frank-ocean-date.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How Frank Ocean Serenaded Chance the Rapper's Date > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images) Scott Dudelson—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 24, 2016 8:36 PM UTC [Frank Ocean](http://time100.time.com/2013/04/18/time-100/slide/frank-ocean/), the world’s [most beloved procrastinator](http://time.com/4413818/frank-ocean-next-album-boys-dont-cry/), is not only benevolent and generous as demonstrated [by the wealth of new music he’s blessed us with of late](http://time.com/4461555/frank-ocean-new-album-blonde-2/), but he’s also a very good friend. Case in point? His random act of kindness for buddy Chance the Rapper, [who has said in the past that Ocean’s new music is a “masterpiece.”](http://time.com/4439541/frank-ocean-new-album-boys-dont-cry-info/) In an interview with [_GQ_](http://www.gq.com/story/how-chance-the-rappers-life-became-perfect), Chance revealed that one night he had a date over at his house, when he used to live in Los Angeles; during the date, Ocean was downstairs, but eventually started playing music and singing, which definitely upped the quality of Chance’s date. “Frank just comes up and starts playing the piano and lightly singing in the background of our date,” he said. “Obviously, that scored me a lot of points with this female.” As elusive as Ocean is, it’s heartwarming to know that he’ll come out when it matters for his friends. \[[_GQ_](http://www.gq.com/story/how-chance-the-rappers-life-became-perfect)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4464999/frank-ocean-chance-the-rapper-gq/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4464999/frank-ocean-chance-the-rapper-gq/"},"headline":"How Frank Ocean Serenaded Chance the Rapper's Date","datePublished":"2016-08-24T20:36:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:49.709Z","description":"Friendship goals","url":"https://time.com/4464999/frank-ocean-chance-the-rapper-gq/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music","Frank Ocean"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt129349d4f65624c9/6988a38ca988cabe226b92ea/chance-the-rapper-frank-ocean-date.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt129349d4f65624c9/6988a38ca988cabe226b92ea/chance-the-rapper-frank-ocean-date.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2016 Outside Lands Music And Arts Festival - Day 3","caption":"2016 Outside Lands Music And Arts Festival - Day 3","creditText":"Scott Dudelson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4464999/frank-ocean-chance-the-rapper-gq/","name":"How Frank Ocean Serenaded Chance the Rapper's Date"}}]}] ```