“Sweet Thing” (Remix), The Boy Genius, Kwamé, A New Beginning (1989)
Kwamé’s debut album was aptly titled The Boy Genius. Every single song on this album was a jam and lead up to this culminating track “Sweet Thing,” a Hip-Hop cover of Chaka Khan’s hit of the same name. The remake help solidify this child star as a bonafide songwriter, venturing into R&B setting the stage for him to write melodic joints for artists like Beyoncé and Vivian Green with a true Hip-Hop aesthetic. In fact, Kwamé a year later wrote the rap for Michael Bivins on the BBD classic, “Poison.” So not only was he a boy genius, but he is basically paid
“‘Cause of the simple fact her face is in my mind,
It has me in love, in the love, I’m blind.
I never felt this way for a girl so quick at wall,
I write her name on the bedroom wall.
To remind myself of the way I feel and,
To me you’re everything, we’ll embrace.
Emotions will sing, a symphony of love to my sweet thing”