
In September, Jay-Z played a string of eight sold-out concerts that opened Brooklyn’s rusty Barclays Center, and a documentary crew was there to record the entire thing. The film’s called Where I’m From, and you can watch the entire thing on YouTube, but one scene particularly stands out: instead of taking the Bentley to his final show, Hova rode the R train, where he sat next to an adorable old lady who had no idea who he is.
“Are you famous?” Ellen (Grossman?) asks, perhaps playing it cool because she doesn’t want Jay-Z to know that she’s actually coming back from Nas’s place, where she spent the day…and night. They’re on-again, off-again, but she’s waiting until things are finalized before alerting the media, and especially J-Hova.
And here’s the whole doc. The Ellen exchange begins at 19:20.



Hov missed a key opportunity here. She asked him for his name a second time. “ALLOW ME TO REINTRODUCE MYSELF!”
C’mon Jay-Z. She set you up for that one.
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Damn. That’s good.
Oh man, I would have died laughing if he did that. It would have been amazing.
Well played, Sir.
This is also how Obama should start his inauguration speech.
This happened to my grandfather in a hotel elevator in Spain with Steve Tyler.
Love in an elevattorrrr?
Did your grandfather say to himself “why is this old lady wearing so many scarfs?”
He’s probably the only person who’s ridden with Tyler, and not made the “going down while going up” joke.
I don’t really understand why he introduces himself by Jay. His name is Shawn. He could say my name is Shawn, or my name is Jay-Z. Unless he is so far removed from reality that he only wants to be known as Jay and he changed his last name to Z. It’s the little things in life that annoy me the most.
It”s a childhood nickname. Even his closest/oldest friends refer to him as “Jay”. He wanted the lady to see him as a real person…Sometime things aren’t as convoluted as they seem…Relax…enjoy the day.
christ, JMU. don’t be a wet blanket.
Elvis Costello should introduce himself as Declan from now on.
Also, it sounded like he was about to Jay-Z, but then hesitated and just left it at Jay.
This vid is amazing !
Agreed! Love it!