What I Would Say to Hova

So, Jay-Z and I are dangerously close right now, I mean in the same very vincinity. I do not tend to get too worked up over celebrity close encounters but this is a man who is a rap legend and inspires me on a weekly basis. Anyway this is not going to happen, first because I am frightened by people I adore, secondly there's just not really a chance, but if I could, these are things I would went to tell him.

First, I love the line in "A Star Is Born" about Andre 3000 being the male version of Lauryn Hill. I would tell him that this hit me because two of biggest musical tragedies are that Lauryn Hill only ever made one album and that Outkast's last album together was "Idlewild".

Then I'd tell him that it was also a tragedy when he retired from music, but he came back so it really was just like another gift from Sean Corey Carter.

Then I'd ask him if he made a Cameo in the new Lil Wayne video "Drop the World." Cause I thought I saw him but I'm not sure. Then I'd tell him that if the world needed to be rebuilt after and apocalypse that I would be comforted to know he was there.

Then I'd ask him how much involvement he had in DJ Dangermouse's "The Gray Album". I mean I know he didn't do anything, but he had to have given his consent right? Was he excited about the idea? I'd let him know that I think it made my brother give rap a chance (sort of a lie, but how would Jay-Z know that.)

Then I'd ask him how it feels to have been responsible for the new ode to NYC. I'd also let him know that "Empire State of Mind", Alicia Keyes, and Stephen Colbert got my mom to listen to rap.

Then I'd ask him if he was terrified when he started Roc-A-Fella records or if he figured if it didn't work out he could always make the money back selling drugs.

Then I'd tell him I woke up on September 11, 2001 psyched that The Blueprint was being released that day and had plans after school to go buy it. Those plans were changed with the day's event.

Then I'd tell him I'm not seeing him tonight, but I am seeing him in April at Coachella. I'd ask him if he had tickets he wanted to give me for tonight or if he wanted to hook me up in April with something sick.

I'd figure out some way to thank him a lot in all those blabberings and apologize the my mind was unleashed on him.