Jay-Z
released a 24-minute documentary that contains an adorable moment
between him and an older lady who did not recognize him. Back in
October, the rapper took subway to his final performance at Brooklyn,
New York's Barclays Center and sat next to the lady, named Ellen.
Ellen saw the people screaming around Jay-Z and asked him, "Are you
famous?" He humbly replied, "Not very famous, you don't know me, but
I'll get there someday." He then introduced himself to her and she asked
what his occupation is. "I make music," Jay-Z said, adding he was on
his way to his last concert.
Ellen praised Jay-Z for taking the subway. "I'm proud of you," she said,
before asking for Jay-Z's full name and realizing that she knows the
name.
After the footage went public on Tuesday, December 4, Ellen talked to
Washington Post of her encounter with the rapper. "In general I have
poor face recognition unless I know someone really well. I was aware
Jay-Z was famous and existed, but I didn't know how famous," she said
via phone.
Identified as Ellen Grossman, the 67-year-old is an artist who, like
Jay-Z, was born in Brooklyn.
"I've become much more aware of what he's done and who he is," Ellen
recalled the meeting. "And as I checked him out, I realized, how
embarrassing that I didn't know who he was! There were all these
photographers and a crowd of happy people around him, and security
people. So it sort of dawned on me as I was looking around that he was
someone famous."
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