| | so for our 5th wedding anniversary i wanted to do a little something different than the usual card and flowers. i organized a surprise get-together with about 30 friends and thought, "hey you know what would be better than flowers? rapping."
last year i wrote a
poem about our 4th. but this year i decided not only to write some
verses describing how we got together but also rap it over a pharcyde beat. in front of 40
people. for the first (and perhaps only) time ever. i wasn't sure how
it would go over but people seemed to like it. tola was touched that i
would do something so unexpected. when you do something like this you
can't be timid. you have to go all out. did i mention that tola doesn't
like to be the center of attention?
i recorded it on video and hopefully you'll get to see the live
performance in the near future. this way we can re-live this historical
event again and again...
Tola's reactionNaomi was clapping and swinging her hips the whole time. after i was done she said, "Again, daddy!"
(thanks to samantha & eddie for the pics)
here are the lyrics:
Passin Me By (pk remix)
When I was school I met a mocha skinned girl
Her teeth was kind of funny and she liked to wear pearls
Little did I know she was the one I was to marry
The funny thing was that to her I wasn’t very scary
Other girls I knew would get offended or upset
When I would tell them off or speak real direct
About their flakiness or their girly behavior
Who would ever learn to love this rough misbehaver?
But on this mocha girl I had a different effect
She liked my honesty and the fact that I’m direct
She thought that I was fly and even sort of handsome
Who’d have thought this was something she could not escape from?
But I was unaware of….
My effect on this girl, but to the rest of the world
It was plain and obvious, I was dense - I confess
Caveman that I am, I was really clueless
(Hook) She keeps on passin me by...
I lived at Six Pack and she at F.A.R.
But somehow we ended living up on the same floor
We would go to lunch and hang out quite a bit
That’s how this whole thing started – straight out of friendship
People started asking, “Hey, are you guys an item?”
Even though we told them “no”, we had to kind of fight em
They say that girls and guys really can’t be good friends
Now I’d have to agree, but that ain’t how the story ends
Got to a point where we couldn’t stay together
Friendship came to end and she though that it was better
To go our separate ways, man, I didn’t know what happened
Then next thing you know this drama faded into legend
Now my mocha mama she was tired of all the drama
She tried to top beliven’ bout the things that she was feelin’
Then two flat tires back-to-back made me snap
I saw that she’s the one – there was no turning back
~~~
Then came my chance so we went to Barnes & Noble
To hang out and to study, but the thing that was funny
Was that I wasn’t taking classes, but I was running out of chances
To make this fly girl mine, now step back cause it was time…
I asked, “What you prayin bout?” to try and get a feel
Did I still have a chance or had I lost my appeal?
She said, “Oh this and that,” now she had no clue
She asked what I’d been prayin’ about, straight-up I told her, “you”
(Hook) She keeps on passin me by...
Now there she goes again the dopest Cambodian
Coming down the aisle with a smile decked out in wedding style
We both said “I do” till death do us part
Marriage is a fusion of sacrifice and heart
Then it was off to reception number one
Where there was food, friends, family and good clean fun
Next week it was time for reception number two
Cambodian this time with the band K-Blue
The wedding it was done now the marriage had begun
We was young and in love with no kids to speak of
Then we two – first Naomi then Aden
It’s apparent that we’re parents but it’s like we’re still datin’
My wife, here’s to you, you’re the love of my life
Through strife and tribulation and in every situation
You shine, sublime and through this hip hop hymn
I remain yours truly – Paul W. Kim
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