Famous Encounters???
 

New topic :D

Have you had any famous encounters (fame based on your definition :0)

I met Bob Marley when I was a real 'youth
(lol a lil patios~ JA lingo)

Lauryn Hill after like 1 year and 5 concerts from N.C. to NY!
I realllllly was feeling the Miseducation......


More minor encounters

Slick Rick (he's from the Bx and he was always around)

What about you ????
:cool:

I would still really like to meet Janet Jackson.....

Hey, I live in LA. So, that answer is a big ole YEP!

Favorites were:

Denzel
Brice from Groove Theory

ETA: Just met Aaron McGruder...I LOVE HIM!!! He's the perfect man

I met Nas when he was here for GreekFreak in 2000. Even got his autograph.

I've got one..or 2
 

The Incomparable Ozzie Davis and Ruby Dee back in 1983 in Washington, DC.

Bill & Hillary Clinton (got the autographs too) during his Primary run.

Re: I've got one..or 2
 

JEALOUS

ughh how could i forget???
 

I 'met' Bill too, well it was at a rally so there were no real intros but I did shake is very soft hand (lol) and I got his autograph! Love me some Bill!;)

I really wanted to catch Hillary in DC for her book signing but didn't make it (I think I was studying for the bar). But Lord knows I will catch her on her Hillary for President in 2008 campaign.. lol

Hmmmmm well all the people that mean anything to me are Reggae artists lol sooo.....

I met Wayne Wonder, Spragga Benz in 2000

Mr. Vegas in 2001

Sizzla (last night 10/23)

Master P (in the airport in ATL)

&

I met Sean Paul in 1999 & I cried like a small child afterwards. I was a HARDCORE fan b/f I knew what he looked like(which was usually the case w/ reggae artists pre-reggae videos).

I've met a lot of folks:

Bill Clinton
Jesse Jackson
Was an extra (ya can't see me) in the movie Made in America with Will Smith, Nia Long, Ted Danson and Whoopie Goldberg (went to Jr. and high school with her daughter Alex) Got a picture of all of them. and got PAID $$$$$$

Met Tachina Arnold (Pam from Martin) at LAX
Met Forrest Whitaker (ms)
Met the lady from MASH, don't know her name, on a plane back to DC

I know I met others, but can't remember right now...

I forgot I also met Hillary Clinton. She's much shorter in person than she seems. Since she visits Syracuse quite frequently since she's a senator, I met her one day when she was in one of her many offices. Her Syracuse office is one floor up from mine. She was really nice and all the admin staff got to take a pic. Maybe I'll find my pic and post for all to see.

i still swoon......
 

i met Harrison Ford in a club a few years back. i almost walked past him and his homies (bodyguards) when my husband had to stop me and turn my head around.


when i was a child i met the late Phyllis Hyman and got her autograph. i also chased down Maurice Hines that same night. they were in a musical Sophisticated Ladies back in the early '80's i think.

I met Jimmy Jam and Vivica A. Fox at the Indiana Black Expo in 1999, I got a scholarship from them and they were some of the people that they were honoring.

Also this past weekend I had lunch with DJ Jazzy Jeff from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

All 3 of these people are so down to earth.

I met that dude from best man the light skinned one who was in mr hollands opus. Actually I was waiting outside of BJs early in the morning before it opened. I just happened to turn around and saw him, I was like "you're not really him are you?" and her replied "no I;m just a regular person like errone else." I said ok and turned right back around but ummmm it was him yall.

Who else?? a lot of Jamaican artists including the infamous SP who I met when I was like 12.... fellow caribbeans know how long he's been around.

Oh I met the girl from floetry [the one who can sing] she came into the store where I used to work and I asked her to sing for me and ........SHE DID!!!!:D

I dont think there any anymore. I did spot Black Thought from the roots early one morning:rolleyes: .

Re: i still swoon......
 

Ohhh two reallllyyy nice ones to have! Great collection you got there!

Ohh I met Jimmy Jam at a Janet Jackson concert in the eary 90's! I was walking in the hallway with these girls from Scarsdale and we bumped into Rene (Janet's ex hubby) I didn't even recognize him but the Scarsdale chicks did, a/w he gave us front row seat tickets and we ended up next to Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis!

Now the Scarsdale chicks were so hyped about being in the front row when we sat down they started introducing themselves to everyone..lol.. and asked Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis who they were..lol... I said "Duhhhh they only produced Janet's album" :rolleyes: And he smiled and winked at me.... hee hee

oooohhh, I LOVE this topic 'cause it brings back some gooood memories!! I met my favorite artist and future husband MAXWELL twice!! The first time I met him was summer 98 (I think it was 98), the day after Embrya came out. I stood in line for EIGHT hours at his album signing (I was a SERIOUS fan back then), and not only did I get photos and an autograph, but I got a HUG!!! And he smells sooooooooo gooooood!!!!!!!!! The second time I met him was at the Puerto Rican Day parade at the beginning of June 99. I had just crossed a few weeks before, and I was already so happy getting ready to stroll in the parade for the first time with all of my sorors. All of a sudden my dean runs over to me, grabs my hand and starts running. She wouldn't tell me what it was, she just led me to a float, and then, there was MAXWELL, chillin on his float, which was waiting to enter the parade on the same block as us. We actually had a conversation with him for a while, which was nice, and I asked him if I could take a picture with him up on his float, but his idiot bodyguards said no. But it was still great to sit there and chat with him since I had been such a big fan for such a long time. I wonder if he's ever coming out with another album? (guess I should stop calling him my husband if I don't stay updated with such vital info lol)

I literally ran into Paul Newman on 91st and MAdison a while back. Almost walked right into the man, and then after I said "excuse me" turned to the woman who had seen me do it and went- is that who I thought it was????

I don't know if they count as a celebrity, but I've met Cornell West once and Henry Louis (Skip) Gates a number of times.

Because I work on a college campus (lots of speaker series and lecture series, etc...) I've been fortunate to meet a lot of newsmakers.

President Clinton (coolest white dude on the planet. period)
President Ford (this guy is not young)
George F. Will (columnist) (kinda kept to himself.)
Jacob Lawrence (artist.) (Regret I'm wasn't up enough on Black art to truly appreciate his talent when he was here)
Bro. John Hope Franklin (Historian) (along with Clinton, truly a highlight for me. The bruhs hosted a nice reception for him.)
60 Minutes' Ed Bradley (the word cool was invented for dude)
Rev. Calvin O. Butts (Kappa)
Rev. Joseph Lowrery (SCLC)
Rev. Al Sharpton
Linda Chavez (fmr. Sect. of Labor)
Sam Donaldson (ABC News)
Cokie Roberts (ABC News)
Pierre Salinger (JFK Press Secretary)
Martin Luther King III

Last year I met Hillary Clinton. She was standing on the corner of 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue. She was supporting a candidate who was running for office (forgot what position). I was more fascinated with her than the guy who was running. lol. She was very gracious and shook everyone's hand. Very cool person. :cool: :D

WOW! Can I hang w/ you Tony??? How did you manage to meet all these people? Are you in the Young Dems or something?
Maybe you could help a sista find a job or something..lol..

I also met Rev. Butts yearsss ago before he realllly blew up at a MLK Breakfast w/ my Dad in Harlem, wow like 12-15 years ago now? gheesh I am getting up there!

I did PR before my current govt. relations assignment. As such we set up all the media opps. and pre-press/tv events before speeches and such. Funny thing is most of these people are really down-to-earth --- it's their pushy HANDLERS, and AIDES that think they're the isht!

Rev. Butts (KAY) gave a tremendous speech. ...I guess Alpha can't have all the talent. :D

I'm noticing a trend here....I'm I the only one who hasn't met Hillary Clinton? lol:)

When I was in the 7th grade, my best friend and I were asked to present gifts on behalf of our junior high school's student council to George and Barbara Bush. This was in 1988 when he was VP and was running for pres. Our school was one if his campaign stops.

Next, when I was a freshman in high school, Montel Williams came to our school. This was before he got the talk show. He gave the top students in each class like $20 for good grades and the girl who was most likely going to become valedictorian (this program took place at the beginning of the school year) about $100 or so for her achievements. Then he started asking random questions to people in the audience and he called me and when I got my question right, he gave me $10. :D

Junior year, author Clifton Taulbert (Once Upon a Time When Were Colored) came to my school to promote his book. He is from my hometown and he singled me out as a very good writer and read some of my work from our literary magazine (I was the editor that year as well as asst. editor of the newspaper). This really gave me the push to pursue writing a book eventually. I'm working on that now. ;)

I have also met the following people:

Grant Hill and Tamia
Kid Rock
Colleen Dixon (author)
Jason Richardson (basketball player-Golden State)
DL Hugley
Sugar Ray
Prince

I got to tell this story. This past summer, Hubby, Son and I were flying home from Mississippi after my family reunion. We flew out of Memphis and then switched planes in Chicago before returning to Saginaw. Now, sitting at O'Hare waiting for our plane, Hubby thought he saw Cedric the Entertainer. I look at him and I'm like YEAH RIGHT :rolleyes: I told him that he just wanted see some Kappas since he's one. Hubby swore up and down that he saw Ced. I roll my eyes and tell him to take our son to the bathroom before we get on the plane. On the plane Hubby pointed out this man who looked so scruffy and bummy and wearing sunglasses and said that he thought it was Ced. Now we know that Ced is usually so fresh and so clean so I just gave Hubby this look again and settled in for the flight home. We get off the plane and while Hubby took Son to the bathroom again :rolleyes: the scruffy man passes by me and says, "What up, Greek. You wearing that Delta shirt." I look the man in his eyes and it WAS Cedric the Entertainer. :eek: I almost fainted dead away at the airport but composed myself enough to get an autograph, introduce him to Hubby and Son, and tell him that my grandmomma and I had a grand old time laughing at him on Comic View and The Steve Harvey Show the night before. It turned out that he was doing a show at the casino. All the way home, Hubby was like I told you so, Nupes know other Nupes, blah, blah, blah. But I shut him up with who got the autograph though?? :p

Sorry this was so long. I have lots of interesting cleb stories.

I am truly jealous!!!
 

His work is awesome. I can't wait to "grow up" so that I can purchase a Jacob Lawrence original.

I forgot about him....
 

do you remember him doing the concert i think in '96??? i met him then. ughhh, i did i forget!!!

Cool story. Ced's my favorite comic. Did he ever say why he was so scruffy?

Well being from Houston.......
H-Town (I went to middle school and Highschool with them)
Destiny's Child (Performed at TSU's Homecoming game 1 year)
Ex-Member LeToya (Came in the Galleria's GAP couple times
when I worked there. She was friendly.)
Scarface The Rapper (Mall, Clubs no big deal)
Big Mo (Purple Stuff) and Big Pokey Local Rappers (Went to
HighSchool with them)
Tom Cruise/Penelope Cruz (I work at NASA and ran into them
during their tour. He was very nice and outgoing, she was a bit
shy.)
Mae Jemison (Saw her in the nail shop and I spoke)
Warren Moon (Grocery Store)
Carl Lewis (Grocery store, he walked around very cocky)
Biz Markie (came to our Highschool in the early 90's)
Montell William's (came to our highschool in the early 90's)
Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff (had an autograph signing. They are very down to earth)
Charles Brown The Late Blues Singer (is my cousin the radio/commercials always wear his songs out at Christmas "Merry Christmas Baby", "Bells Will be Ringing, and so on.)
Countless other NBA and NFL Players in the Mall and Clubs

Re: I forgot about him....
 

I only HEARD about that concert cause I didn't start at UMCP till fall 97. I was SOOO upset to find out that he had been performing in the Hoff for only $7, and I was there a year too late!!!

This doesn't EEEEEVEN count, but I thought it was a funny story.

When I was in high school, I worked for JC Penney (the only one in Columbia and it's in the 'ghetto' mall). Well anyway, these guys were in my dept (I worked in Men's), looking around and I asked them if I could help them. One of the guys was like, "No, we're fine", but then he came over and decided to spark up a conversation. ALLL of the guys looked like scrubs and I wasn't EVEN interested. Now, my homegirls say I can be quite rude at times (who me :eek:?), and like I said...I wasn't trying to hear it. So the first guy asked me if I knew who the picture of the dude on his shirt was. I said, "No...am I supposed to?" :rolleyes: So he says, "That's that man right there!" pointing at one of the other guys in the group. So I was like, "...and he is...?" :confused: He says, "Trick Daddy". I say, "Who or what is a 'Trick Daddy'?" He's like, "Aww man, forget that!" and ends the conversation really quick and waves me off. So I tell my homegirl about it and she tells me he is this "new" rapper. I didn't get to excited about it at all, I was just like, "Oh well" Don't you know like 2-3 weeks later, the single Nann' came out and I was jamming off of it when I realized "Damn...so that's Trick Daddy!"

That's my jam too! :D

Being that I interned for a radio station in college, and have had just plain 'ol fortunate timing, I've met quite a few people. Some were good encounters. Some were not-so-great. Here's the rundown:

Brandy
Aaliyah (RIP)
Gerald LeVert
Tony Terry
Keith Sweat
The Whitehead Brothers
K-Ci and Jo Jo
Brian McKnight
Will Smith ("The Fresh Prince"- I went to high school with his cousin)
Bobby Konders (Remember the reggae song "Mack Daddy"?)
Musiq (saw him in the grocery store)
Rahsaan Patterson (R-N-B singer-we were camp counselors together)
Kobe Bryant (went to school with him and his sisters-I kinda keep this on the low now...lol)
Shanice Wilson (one of the sweetest people I've ever met)
Patra (um um um...no comment!)
?uestlove (Also known as Amir Thompson, the drummer with the pick forever in his 'fro from THE ROOTS)-we used to work at a Telemarketing firm together


I recently ran into that fine-as-may-wine Treach and Vinnie from Naughty By Nature at a rest stop on the PA Turnpike.

I've also met quite a few authors including E. Lynn Harris-my favorite author in the whole wide world!

This past weekend I met Sheryl Underwood-the comedienne (she's a soror!)

I've als met a few gospel artists as well.

That's all for now folks...

I think Ms. Destiny has taken over first place with the best "I got it like dat, dis who I know" list.

...although honorable mention props go to 9dstpm cause she met Ced-the-entertainer at 30,000 ft. altitude. :)

Amerie (college friend)

Aaron McGruder (Had dinner with him after one of his speaking engagements.)

Saw Lil Bow Wow and Jermaine Dupri walking around Georgetown. Wasn't impressed. Actually, they walked right past me, and somebody said "That's JD and his new protoge Bow Wow!" I literally said "and?"

I met DMX at a comedy club. He was slightly offended when I called him "Mister X" to get his attention. BUt I still got the hug and pic I desired.

I had a case of mistaken identity with Gerald Levert. I was backstage at a concert and he said "Alisha?" (which is not my name), came up to me and grabbed me and hugged me. Once the hug was done, he realized I wasn't her and apologized. We laughed for a good 2 minutes.

Halle Berry came to my university. It was early in the morning and she had on very little makeup and she still looked gorgeous.

Musiq Soulchild was out while I was shopping in Philly. He'a a nice guy.

Judge Greg Mathis sat in my row at a concert in Detroit.

Chaka Khan numerous times. We have a good repore I speak with her sister Tammy quite often over the net.

Aretha Franklin - met her at a grocery store in Detroit

Keith Washington - His brother is one of my closest friends Godfather. He invited us to a private after party he had a few years ago. Chaka Khan was there, as well as quite a few other entertainers whom I won't mention. There was some serious drinking going on that night!

Al Gore - I went to Tennessee State. He came on campus for something or nother. I also ran across him a couple times while he was teaching at Fisk

The entire Tennessee Titans football team - year, after year, after year.

Eddie George - as stated before, I've seen the team members all over Nashville. I was in Atlanta awhile back at a bookstore, and guess who walked in.

Christopher Willliams - My cousin (Lorenzo..."Make Love To Me fame) opened at the State Theatre here in Detroit for him. I met him, and his fiancee at that time. Not sure if they ever married.

Mac 10 - we were on the same local record label back in 90-91. This was before he became Mr.T Boz.

Rufus - Chaka's old group

Patti Labelle - at Fishbones

P.Diddy - Let me tell y'all how I met Puff. Some friends and I were riding around in Detroit, and we heard on the radio that Diddy was at the radio station. Well, we new there was only a front and back door at the station, so we waited on him to come out. Sure enough, he came out BLINGING!! He's much darker (skinned) in person.

There's more, but I'm tired of typing.:)

LOL...nah...just fortunate to know folks who know folks...:D

Tony: Ced was scruffy because he didn't want hordes of people coming up to him at the airport. Ced had said that on the news when they interviewed him at his show at the casino. It worked because other than me and my family, only 3 other people recognized him and got autographs.

I have more celebs that I've met:

Jerry Rice
Hi-Five
The Guy from the Outkast video "I Love the Way You Move" who had the umbrella. (I think my youth group girls told me his name is Bentley)

Steve McNair (when he played at Alcorn State. Met him on a tour when I was a senior in high school)

I think that's it..... :D

Spike Lee: Part of the documentary "Four Little Girls" was filmed next door to my house. Chris amd Maxine McNair ( the parents of Denice McNair) live next door.

OMG! I met Steve Urkel in the Mall of Memphis like 7 years ago, and to my disbelief he actually looked cute and quite muscular!!:eek: ,

My Cousin and I were just walking the mall when I saw these 4 guys walking with about 10 girls following. I thought it was wierd, then we stopped I looked at my cousin and we were like "hey! that's Stephan!! Ahhhhhhhhh!! so we turned around and went back and said hey! he waived and we were like


That was soooo corny of us to do that!! Sheesh!!

The End.. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :p

I met Method Man and Ja Rule: Hard Knock Life tour 1999

I also met Gerald Levert and his song during the Tom Joyner show at T.S.U.

Bumping:

I saw Dick Gregory a few weeks ago at Pier 1! WE GRIPPED!!!! (He's an Alpha)

He said "tell the fam I said hello" but I wasn't sure if he was confused or if he meant the Brothers.

Hey all ..... :D ... been a long time huh??

anywho ... since living in NY ... I've seen Paul Mooney a few times ... saw him in Harlem yesterday as a metter of fact .. there were 2 white tourists trying to engage him in conversation & take pictures with their huge lens cameras. Paul's face (-_-) ... he was DEFINATELY un amused ... you could tell her was thinking a few things :p