“Are you famous?”
“Yes. Not very famous, you don’t know me.”
Jay-Z you big old legend. Given that we have a girl crush on Beyonce so big it could actually crush her, it’s a big deal to say we can see what she sees in you. It seems very clear you’re a total sweetheart, if this video is anything to go by.
Yesterday, Jay-Z published a 24 minute documentary called Life + Times about his concerts opening Brooklyn’s Barclays Centre. The standout star of the film, however, was not the rapper. Instantly, the world was smitten with Ellen Grossman, a 67-year-old artist well-known in her own right, who is seen enjoying a little chat with arguably one of the world’s most famous men while on the subway.
As he’s accompanied by a large security personnel, Ellen feels the need to ask if the man beside her is famous. “Yes,” says Jay Z, quite sheepishly, “Not very famous, you don’t know me.”
Though only a very short portion of the conversation made the documentary, the chat is reported to have lasted for up to twenty minutes as the pair travelled from Canal Street to Atlantic Avenue, and Grossman has since claimed: “It was a very positive experience.”
Watching a clueless Ellen tell one of the world’s best known rappers “I’m proud of you” is epic. Good man Jay Z, our girl Beyonce chose well.
