Have you ever met a Celebrity and geeked out when you met them?

[Yehuda]

uma thurman gave me a head nod

I was til I read the sentence again...

 

[Eternally Jaded]

Was riding an elevator down n Ja Rule n his entourage got on at the Hartford Hilton. This is back on the early 2000s when I'll admit I was a big Ja fan.
Was too shocked to say anything so I just stayed quiet in the corner.

Saw Cassie damn near 15 years ago taking a flight out of Bradly International Airport. Told my sister I think that's that new Bad Boy chick, she was rocking huge shades n a brimmed hat(nobody was checking for her like that either, these famous people be clowns).

 

[WaveMolecules]

i marked out HARD when i saw hiroshi tanahashi. super nice, huge in person.

tetsuya naito was mad cool too. let me hold the strap

 

[The Guru]

I saw Tobey Maguire at a grocery store in Los Angeles awhile back. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

You got me. I looked up infetterence and..

 

[GoAggieGo.]

Met Big Krit after a concert in Chattanooga. I can’t lie, I was a bit star struck. He, Sant, and his entourage were heading to the tour bus, and I saw him, dapped him up, and let him know I was from the Sipp too. He dapped me up, and got on his bus. I understood. It was late, and they had another city they had to be at the next day

 

[Canada Goose]

Never met or seen a celebrity despite living in NYC. Closest people I seen to celebrities is local news reporters


Crystal Young from channel 5 news in NYC was looking at me (happened to be walking past where the studio is and she was outside) as I was walking down the block. Not sure why, I'm ugly and was looking bummy that day so she couldn't have been "intrested" in me. Couldn't have been reasons as this was broad daylight with people around.



But if I did see an celebrity, I wouldn't say anything and just keep it moving..

 

[King Poetic]

Emmanuel Lewis.. RIP….. brother was so humble like u see him doing boxing

That was it… other people I ran into was low level celebrities

 

[CrushedGroove]

I met CeeLo at the ATL airport during a layover to go back to Iraq. He chopped it up with me for a minute and told me he was working on a joint project with Jazze Pha. Too bad it never came out.

I run into quite a few former Rockets, Texans, Astros over in the City Centre area near Memorial. Last time I ran into Robert Horry.

I'm family with Slim Thug. He actually came through a little get together we had a few weeks ago.

 

[Batsute]

Met Stanley from the office at a strip club. He tried to play it down but everyone knew it was him.

 

[Booker Carver]

I geeked out meeting Ray Lewis and Mike Singletary. But held hands with Deion Sanders in a prayer and was just staring at him.

He was my sports idol brehs.

Edit: Oh and Nelly. But didn’t geek out. Help him get on the sidelines of an SEC Championship game.

 

[GoAggieGo.]

TI was at a bar I was at. Bought us all a shot lol. Met Killer Mike at a club on Peters St here in ATL. That’s a fat ass dude.

 

[The True HD]

Smoked a joint with Curren$y at one of his concerts and got a 30 second drop from him at his most recent one…. Underground legend but a celebrity to me.

 

[Laidbackman]

I only remember talking with three, and I'm not really a person that would approach a public figure. The only reason I did on these occasions was because I either didn't know who they were, or to find out if they were who they were. The last two were professional boxers. So you know that could have been risky if I had said the wrong thing, in which I almost did both times . Now I remember two more. To be honest, all these incidents had the potential to turn out some what negative. I mentioned one here when me and my terminally ill brother met Paul Mooney in 2015, as he was entering a secret entrance to the Howard Theater, when he performed before dikk Gregory. That whole thing could have been taken either way. Since I already did a post on that, there's no need to repeat it here.

Anyway my first time conversating with a public figure was when I was on Christmas break, during my freshman year at the U of MD, when I was sitting on Cloud 9. I was at this Christmas party in the hood in Landover, MD, and me and this older brother in his late 20's was talking trash. He seemed to have had this prejudice towards me, when I told him I was going to the U of MD. For some reason, he was arguing that urban kids had it rough, making me feel like I was some how spoon fed because I was going to Maryland, and living on campus at the time. I had no idea I was talking to the Washington Redskins (their former name) former wide receiver Frank Grant. I had watched him since I was in the 5th grade, when I saw him in one of his first pre-season games, where he caught a 60 yard touch down. I always felt he was underrated. This encouraged me to wear number 46, his old jersey number, when I played boys club football. Frank Grant played behind wide-receiver Roy Jefferson, and beside the legendary wide-receiver Charlie Taylor. Also at this party was Washingtons' former linebacker Harold McClinton, who was tragically struck and killed by a car almost a year later. They both had just retired from the Washington Football Team, and were involved with helping inner-city youth. Harold McLinton was cool, and stayed out of me and Frank Grants little debate. When they stopped the party, and gave a special thanks to Harold McLinton and Frank Grant, I was stunned finding out who they were. Btw, it was a pretty small crowd at this party. When Frank Grant returned, I told him I had no ideal who he was, and that I use to wear number 46. Anyway, our little debate was now over. and we didn't say another word to one another for the rest of the party. I really told him I wore his number to let him know that he still had an influence on young brothers like me, who was going to PWI's like the U of Maryland. Frank Grant really knew nothing about the hood I grew up in, and he had no ideal I spent the first part of my childhood in the roughest ghetto of DC, in the 60's.

Btw, this wasn't to put down Frank Grant. Tbh, I now think he was playing me all along, and probably knew I was from the hood, otherwise I wouldn't have been there.

This post was so long, that I think I'll save the other incidents for later.

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

Never geeked over any celeb, but my best celeb moment was chilling in a back lot with Robert Downey Jr. This was in like 2004, pre Iron Man when he was trying to be a jazz singer . I was working as an intern, and he was performing at a gala event. He gave me a cigarette and we talked about music for a few minutes. Super down to earth dude.

 

[Uachet]

I've met many while living in Hollywood near Santa Monica Blvd. and Vine Street (We lived on El Centro Ave. before I was 13). The only time that really had me excited was my mother and I walking into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. This happened in 79'. I was 9 years old looking up at what I considered a giant god. My mother was excited too, and got his autograph.