[9] "Super Rich Kids" is an R&B and neo soul ballad[10] set in common time and a slow half-time groove tempo of 60 beats per minute.
[13] According to The Quietus, "a stomping piano and the steady smack of kickdrum anchors the ghostly crowd noise from a vast débutantes ball, as the synths quiver both nauseously and as subtly as candle-smoke in a floor draft.
"[17] According to Sound and Motion magazine, the track "is exactly as the title suggests; Frank’s view on the children of parents who have inherited massive trust funds without the grasp of what a huge responsibility it is and the good they could do.
From expensive cars to a different woman every night, the alleged social elite stumble through a charmed existence where the real world is buffered from them and then they breed a new generation with the same attitude.
"[18]"Super Rich Kids" is described by Muso's Guide as "a contemporary version of a Jay McInerney novel,"[19] and by The Independent as "something Carole King knocked out in the 1970s.
Ocean, proving his talent as a songwriter, and a jaded voice for this frustrated introspective generation is able to find something profound from a superficial world.
"[22] Billboard, in a track-by-track review, said that "the steadiness of the beat is immediately familiar but wholly fresh – it's like Ocean snatched 'Benny and the Jets' and threw the composition down a trap door into another universe.
[16] In 2012, the song appeared on the Gossip Girl season 6 episode "Monstrous Ball", along with four other Frank Ocean tracks: "Lost", "Pyramids", "Sweet Life" and "Thinkin Bout You".
[27] In 2014, record label TufAmerica filled a copyright lawsuit against Vivendi and Universal Music Group for the sampling of Mary J. Blige's "Real Love" in "Super Rich Kids".