Tyler, the Creator intended for his collaborative duo with ASAP Rocky to be named Don’t Tap the Glass before making it the title of his ninth album.
Nearly a decade ago, fans thought that the two rappers would collide on an album titled WANG$AP because of their previous collaborations like “Who Dat Boy” and “Potato Salad.” In 2015, they even hit the road for the Rocky and Tyler Tour. But during a visit to Hot 97 on Tuesday (July 29), Tyler shared that he and Rocky hadn’t even landed on their duo name when separate projects took them off course.
“Don’t Tap the Glass was actually a name that I had for the duo for me and Flacko, but it never got used,” the two-time Grammy winner shared around the 22:35 mark below. “I thought it would be sick. Like, ‘Let’s just be called Don’t Tap the Glass. Like, that’s hard.’ Like, you know, when you at the zoo or whatever and like, ‘No, don’t fuck with the [gorillas].’ Like, I thought that would be super cool.”
But the idea never came to pass, although Tyler “always had that title in the tuck” and “always loved it.” “And when I started working on this, I was like, “Oh my god, this feels like that shit,” he continued.
The rappers originally planned to work on something in full, but Tyler admitted that “scheduling was really hard,” especially since the “Stop Playing With Me” rapper considers himself an early bird, unlike Rocky.
“I’m trying to record at 7 a.m., be out of there by noon or 1, and finish the
rest of my day at the office or X, Y, and Z, and be asleep by 9,” Tyler continued. “That n***a is a night owl. So, I’m not going to the studio at 8:00 p.m. I’m not leaving a studio at 5:00 a.m. I wake up 59 minutes after that.”
In February, Tyler, the Creator congratulated his “Wharf Talk” collaborator on his acquittal on gun assault charges during a stop on the Chromakopia World Tour.
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