Rappers Tyler, the Creator and A$AP Rocky pair up to deliver a ferocious, utterly ‘delicious’ flex track with “Potato Salad”

Good things tend to happen when Tyler, the Creator and A$AP Rocky collaborate.  The best example of collaborative glory? “Who Dat Boy” from Tyler’s critically-acclaimed, Grammy-nominated album, Flower Boy.  The good pals link up once more for another surefire winner, “Potato Salad.” Can you say delicious?

“Potato Salad” keeps things pretty tight, just crossing the three-minute mark in regards to duration. The intro performed by Tyler, the Creator, setting the tone… whetting the palate…something like that.

“Ayy, you gon’ start me from the top, Listen

Shout out Harlem, man

Shout out A$AP Rocky, man

AWGE in the building, man

What’s good? Is that potato salad?

Yo, listen.”

Soulful production work serves as an awesome backdrop for both artists.  The sample is familiar for R&B fans of the 00s – Monica’s “Knock, Knock” from After the Storm.  Tyler, the Creator drops the first and third verses, in addition to the aforementioned intro and outro.  He has his fair share of moments, including “N***as give me the cold should, I can speak for myself / So I keep a high waist and alligator the belt / And got a belt with the holster, I ain’t playing games” or

“Married to the money, my bitch green / No, I don’t sip lean, but ride around in rockets like Yao Ming,” which both hail from the first verse.  He also delivers a bullet on the third verse, asserting:

“Bum n***as wish they could make a garden shed

But they sleeping on me man like their arm is dead…”

A$AP Rocky has his fair share of bright spots on the second verse.  He opens with a bang, spitting:

“F**k clothes, I cop pieces

Couple thots with me and them hoes is like divas

Got my Vans on but they look like sneakers

Flipped a couple packs, Based God in the speakers.”

He also references Kodak Black and the skit “Calldrops” which appears on his 2018 album, Testing.

“I find it hard to find actual talent

I find it hard to find an actual challenge

I’m like Shabazz Palace’s last acid hit, elaborate

Rap lab’s labyrinth, word to Kodak Black’s Lazarus

‘Calldrops’ on the album skits.”

Final Thoughts

All in all, Tyler, the Creator and A$AP Rocky deliver solid rhymes on “Potato Salad.” Both are basically flexing on the track, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

Tyler, the Creator & A$AP Rocky • Potato Salad – Single • Columbia / RCA • Release: 9.28.18

Photo Credits: Columbia / RCA