Would you really want to be famous?

[jadillac]

I have a friend, he's the biggest Brian McKnight fan in the world since day 1. He get's backstage passes for autographs and pictures every time McKnight is in concert. Has every song, released and unreleased that McKnight has done.
Over the past several years, he's met Brian McKnight & spoke to him briefly MULTIPLE times after shows, taken pictures, autographs, etc.

But I asked him a few weeks ago, "Does Brian pretty much remember you at this point after all the times you've met him?" And he says, "Nope, not at all. LOL" And my friend is Asian, so he's probably not the stereotypical typical Brian McKnight fan from appearance standpoint that could be easily forgotten

And I just thought to myself

I've had people who I've met in the past come up to me and tell me they knew me, and I didnt remember them. But that was just a one time casual meeting or something.

I can't imagine seeing/meeting so many people that you can't remember, or meeting someone and you can change their life but yet you don't remember them at all. And Brian McKnight isnt even all that famous anymore, so I can hardly imagine a dude like Lil Wayne or Jay Z or Drake, etc

 

[CrimsonTider]

Lil Wayne Jay Z and Drake are the 3 greatest rappers of all time.

 

[the cool]

Breaking bad is my favorite tv show of all time

 

[----]

This obsession with another man didn't strike you as odd?

 

[jadillac]

Lil Wayne Jay Z and Drake are the 3 greatest rappers of all time.

doesnt matter....and this is not true.

 

[Ego Noir]

Anything past local or niche fame is a curse IMO.

Great fame, you done nothing but work yourself into a prison. to the point where you have to shut down malls just to buy some socks, get mobbed trying to buy some potato chips, and seeing flashes of cameras while you thought you was just taking a shyt, is a curse.

Ask me I'd much rather be that rich guy nobody knows. Stroll into a place driving an aston martin everybody looking like "who is he, and what does he do"

Either that or niche fame. Like the fame of a Nas, or a Miguel Cotto. Where people who are into your craft know you, but casual and mainstream don't know who you are nor care if you were standing right in front of them.

 

[Dameon Farrow]

I'd rather be rich and not famous. Quick who here can tell me who Norman Jewison is? Bet you have to look him up. But you know his work.

 

[no.]

It depends on what for. Both as a cause and as a purpose.

If anything, I'd like to be famous within a field, but not necessarily as a public figure in popular culture.

Like the super cool scholar who's basically an academic deity but 99% of the population hasn't heard of except for their nerdy stans at conferences who admire the shyt out of them while at the same time attempting to refute their theories to surpass the masters.

 

[LionofJudah]

I'd like to see life through their eyes for maybe a week. I couldn't imagine women just throwing themselves at you simply because of who you are. shyt would be mindblowing.

 

[jadillac]

Anything past local or niche fame is a curse IMO.

When you're famous to the point you worked yourself into a prison, where you have to shut down malls just to shop, get mobbed going to the store, and seeing flashes of cameras while you thought you was just taking a shyt, is a curse.

Ask me I'd much rather be that rich guy nobody knows. Stroll into a place driving an aston martin everybody looking like who is he, and what does he do

Either that or niche fame. Like the fame of a Nas, or a Miguel Cotto boxer. Where people who are into your craft know you, but casual and mInstream don't know who you are not care if you were standing right in front of them.

breh, I'd say Nas is pretty popular anywhere he'd go. And he's been around a LONG time so ppl will recognize him.

But I get what ur saying, and I agree with Cotto...or some random hockey player.

 

[Desirous]

I wouldn't

 

[King Poetic]

Nah

I rather be in the background with millions and billions while u coli fools be on tv or on radio acting a fool making me money

 

[Ego Noir]

breh, I'd say Nas is pretty popular anywhere he'd go. And he's been around a LONG time so ppl will recognize him.

But I get what ur saying, and I agree with Cotto...or some random hockey player.

You right but only reason I used Nas is cause I've actually seen Nas walk the streets of Manhattan, alone, and wasn't mobbed. I'm sure people knew, but for the most part they saluted him and KIM.

Whereas another day I was walking around downtown and seen a mob of people and everybody had cellphones out. I ask around and apparently it was jay-z putting gas in his car.

Jay level of fame is irritating to me.

 

[the cool]

I'd rather be rich and not famous. Quick who here can tell me who Norman Jewison is? Bet you have to look him up. But you know his work.

i dont know any of that fakkits work

dont bring up scrub names

 

[the cool]

You right but only reason I used Nas is cause I've actually seen Nas walk the streets of Manhattan, alone, and wasn't mobbed. I'm sure people knew, but for the most part they saluted him and KIM.

Whereas another day I was walking around downtown and seen a mob of people and everybody had cellphones out. I ask around and apparently it was jay-z.

Jay level of fame is irritating to me.

word

nas can go to the mall here in dallas and no one would know who he was

back in the 90s he was waaaayyyy more popular