This song from Frank Ocean's debut album, Channel Orange, finds him highlighting absentee parents too busy earning their riches to raise their children. "The maids come around too much. Parents never come around often enough," the New Orleans-raised Ocean sings. Later on it segues into a chorus where Ocean lifts some lyrics and the vocal melody from Mary J. Blige's 1992 hit single "Real Love": Real love I'm searching for a real love
The song is set in Ladera Heights, a neighborhood in Los Angeles county that has become a mecca for upper-class Black families. Another Channel Orange track, "Sweet Life," is set in the same location.
"Super Rich Kids" features a slow, methodical rap verse from Ocean's fellow Odd Future member Earl Sweatshirt. While Frank's neglected kid ends up experiencing suicidal thoughts because of the lack of real love he receives, the youngster in Earl's story erupts and vandalizes his Dad's Jaguar with a baseball bat.
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