Colombian-American singer Kali Uchis played an important role on Tyler, The Creator’s Flower Boy and Cherry Bomb albums, and today he returned the favor by hopping on her new single “After the Storm.” The track also features funk legend Bootsy Collins and production from Ontario trio BADBADNOTGOOD. It serves as the latest single from her upcoming debut album Fool’s Paradise. She later released the song’s cartoonish music video directed by Nadia Lee Cohen, who also handled DRAM’s “Gilligan” video:
Collins opens up the song with a reference to Uchis and Tyler’s recent Flower Boy collaboration, as Genius contributors mbrynk and VloneZone explain in an annotation:
Uchis appeared on Collins' recent album World Wide Funk, and she explained to Noisey that “he just reached out to me. I got to go and meet his whole family; they live on a ranch in Ohio. I stayed in this hotel across the street from them and we were together every day, it was so much fun.”
On his guest verse, Tyler also references Flower Boy:
Kali, what you mean?
I take it offensive
‘Cause I’m the hottest flower boy
That popped up on the scene
Meanwhile, Uchis seems to drop another shout-out on the first verse:
Someday we’ll find the love
‘Cause after the storm’s
When the flowers bloom
Fool’s Paradise still doesn’t have an official release date but is expected to drop sometime in early 2018.
Listen to the song above and read all the lyrics to Kali Uchis' “After the Storm” featuring Tyler, the Creator and Bootsy Collins on Genius now.
