I'm Still Wearing Wiley's Rolex

Wiley…doesn't have a Rolex Watch anymore

Funny how lyrics about a watch attracted me to a song and a genre that I otherwise would have pretty much ignored. What does that say about me? Am I a watch nerd? Is there anything wrong with that? Am I obsessed with Rolex watches?

Do you remember British pop rapper Wiley's song "Wearing My Rolex"? If you don't you must have been in a cave somewhere in Indonesia. (If you actually were living in a cave in Indonesia, I apologize).



This song was gigantic. For a while it seemed to be coming out of the open window of every car going by on every street in the world. Do you want to know what I did when I realized I was singing it to myself in my sleep? I got up one morning, went online and bought myself a new Rolex Day Date Watch (replica).

Ever since, my personal joke to myself, and anyone who asks about my watch, is that I'm wearing Wiley's Rolex. It's been a year and it keeps getting more hilarious. Just yesterday a woman asked me about my watch and I immediately started singing the song.

Don't remember the words? Well, here's a taste of the chorus from the biggest (but certainly not the only) song about a Rolex watch ever:

What would we do
Usually drink, usually dance, usually babble
All I want to do is tell you I love you
That's when I start promising the world to
a brand new girl I don't even know yet
Next thing she's wearing my Rolex.

Now, I'm not one to put a lot of emphasis on…or suggest the importance of, a silly pop song, but I still have to say I can relate to "promising the world to a girl I don't even know yet". Funny how that happens, ah, over and over! What's different about me and Wiley though is that I wouldn't let anyone wear my Rolex watch…I don't think. Would you?

If there's one situation those rules get broken though it's when you think you're in love with some girl you don't even know…then the next thing you know…maybe I'm the one wearing Wiley's Rolex, but some beautiful girl is out there wearing mine.