Fame in Conversation - Kristofer Dorsey

My story of my take on "Fame in Conversation" came between a two of my female friends, a male friend, and I. The setting that we were at was at the Handschumaccher Dining Center around 6pm. This was the story of when I rain Sean "Diddy" Combs. The reason I picked him is because he is a person that almost everyone knows and that you either love him or him. The conversation was already on music so I just leeway my topic in when I found the right time. During the conversation, they started talking about the new show, Taquita and Kaui on MTV. Taquita and Kaui were both finalists in Diddy's show "Making the Band 3", which formed the girl group, Danity Kane. Both Taquita and Kaui didn't make the group, but somehow turned their 15 minutes fames on television into extra time a maybe another record deal. I first started by asking if they thought that they deserved to have their own show. All three of them said that they could've done without but it might be entertaining to watch. I guess maybe like a car crash. The second question I asked was if Diddy should've have picked them. Both of the girls believed that Taquita would've been a great addition to the group, other than one of the members, who I can’t remember they said. Neither one of them remember Kaui that much from the original show. The lone male other than me just talked about how sexy Kaui was and how "banging" her body was. I concurred but we were getting really off topic with what I wanted to say. After trying to bring them back in, I just blurted that I met Diddy before. They look stunned and started asking me questions of how I met him. One of the girls asked if I met him during one of my shows or if I opened up for him. I told her "No" and that I actually met him on the streets of New York. They asked me where and I said somewhere on Madison Avenue. They then begin to look excited and ask me what happen. The two girl seems really interested in what I was about to say as my male friend acted like he didn’t care. I started the story off with what I was doing and became really animated so that I could sell the story
I was jus leaving my mom from the DKNY store so that I could just look around the street to see what I can find or what beautiful woman I could bump in to. As I was walking, I noticed a black BMW 745i that had dark tinted windows with a New York license plate that said "Biggie." The first thing I did was start to wonder who was in the car. the first thing that came to my mind was that it was either Diddy or it was Volletta Wallace, the Notorious B.I.G.'s mother. The car passed me and I thought nothing about it. After go and leaving an electronic store that I was in for about 20 minutes, I started to walk down to Barney's. This is when I saw and ran into him. He was outside of the front door of Barney's with a crowd starting to grow around him, but his bodyguards making sure that nobody got close to him. We were walking towards each other and made eye contact. As we were walking for some reason, I just started talking and gave him props for the things that he was doing at the time in the music and fashion business. He said "Thanks and to keep doing my thing. Maybe one day we'll meet again in the future." I smiled and nodded at the comment and went to give him a hi-five. I was sort of stopped by his bodyguards but he backed them up and gave me the hi-five back. We passed by and he went in to the black BMW with tinted windows that I saw early in the day. I told them that even though I really wasn't star struck, it just gave me feeling that with my music, I’m not that far away from making it and being at the level. Just thinking about being at that level, I know he's not the most humble of stars, but I would like to make it to his status but still contain my humbleness and down to earth characteristics that I have now.
The girls seemed sort of star struck just from the conversation. One insisted that it was impossible for something like that to happen. I guess, that the thought of just walking down the streets and running into a person of his status was unbelievable. I insisted that I was either lucky or just in the right place at the right time. The other girl asked me as if he was sexy and debonair as he was on TV. i felt a little uncomfortable with answering that, so I answered with the normal male answer to that "He was cool." I made a joke about guessing the Proactiv was "preserving his sexiness"(a comment Diddy made during the Proactive infomercial with Vanessa Williams). The dude on the other hand seemed unphased. The first thing he said about the situation was that it would be better if I ran in to rappers, Jay-Z or Nas. I agreed, but I asked "Why was he hating on my experience?" He laughed and said that he hated Diddy. The whole way he cared himself now and after the death of B.I.G. and talked about how he didn't like his music. I asked if he could separate the image (Sean combs as Diddy) from the real person. I gave him hypotheticals of what if he was just a normal, cool person like me? Would that be able to change your idea of him? He said it might've changed it, if they became cool with each other, but other than that, he stood by what he said. He still saw him as a "cocky ass no-talented non-rapping dancer that made it big on someone else's career."
They say you can please some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all the time. I thought by picking this encounter with this star, it wouldn’t meet any dislike. Even with the pick of him, I met some that had dislike towards Diddy. Like if I would’ve pick someone else that liked, it would’ve been okay. Fame in Conversation can do well for your conversation or backfire on you. You can either come off as a person in the right place in the right time or a snobby ass. I, guess it’s all in the delivery.