I am a gay 22 year old man from South Africa and it saddens me beyond belief to realise that the homophobia I have had to deal with for a majority of my life festers even in the USA amongst my black brothers and sisters. How dare does a minority that has for years been at the receiving end of prejudice, hate, violence and persecution do the same to another minority for no apparant reason at all.

On the issue at hand: Frank Ocean had made the best music album of 2012, multiple musical critics agree with this and thus it should suffice to say that if Frank Ocean should win a Grammy, it'll be because of the quality of his music not because of a police report released by a sensationalist tabloid website. The knowledge of true music is not a privaledge its a talent: others recognise good music while others unfortunatetly will never know what it is. Channel Orange speaks for itself.
Frank Ocean wrote his rather beautiful and very poetic "coming letter" because he was pressured into doing it after media had gotten to listen to the album before hand, he wanted to own the story and who could blame him it was such a personal story. Anyone who thinks otherwise is simply hateful for other reasons unknown to me.
The point is, if you know good music, Channel Orange speaks for itself.
I'm a south African and again I'm disgusted by the carelessness with which African Americans dispense homophobia and justify it with the stupid notion that "it is their opinion to disagree with this lifestyle". But that is a debate for another day.
Black people who are homophobic just cannot stand the fact that a black gay/bisexual man such beautiful and organic music, they are making derogatory comments which infact are disguised artistic jealousy; "how dare does this gay black be so talented" we are going to do everything to bring him down. Yes its true that Frank Oceans album didn't sell well, however I feel nothing but tremendous pity for any person who believes that the quality os an album is a function of how much money it makes. These days the line between a fan paying for an album in expectation of an artist creating quality music is all but erased, we are emerssed in a "musical" world of songs not albums and channel is certainly a refreshing rescess from this world.
I know nothing about Chris Brown but I do know he is a musician other than that I know no more therefore I will not comment. I support the notion of deleting comments that are vulgar and disrespectful: I'm all for freedom of speech but I'm NOT for hate speech, especially when it is done in a cowardly fashion of internet anonymity. To close out my "novel" of a comment, I have a question: what kind of a police force does America have that makes its documents susceptable to the easy access of a bloody TABLOID? I find that very shocking.