Miniproject #2: Kristofer Dorsey

When I think hard enough, I really don’t have a memento. I never got a basketball from a player from the Phoenix Suns (my favorite team). I never bump in to a person and asked for their autograph or take a picture. I have bumped in to famous people but I never really felt the reason to do that. Plus, some are “a-holes” and you don’t to have to go through that whole process. The only memento I can think of is the ticket to my first concert I ever been to.
The ticket stub was to “The Best of Both Worlds Tour” that starred the two top people in their genre at the time. Jay-Z from the world of Hip Hop and R. Kelly from the world of R&B. I can remember that day like it was yesterday. It was a Thursday so the whole week, I basically been bragging about what I was going to see. I couldn’t wait for the bell to ring. It rung and I was off to the races to the bus. Once I got home, my mom was there and we were ready to ride. She was my partner to the show. I always felt that my mom wasn’t like other mothers. She was cool, funny, and could keep up with me no matter what, so she always had the most respect in the world from me, even though she already had it. Both radio stations were blasting Jay-Z and R. Kelly music the whole time we were traveling. This is when I found out my mom wasn’t a big Jay-Z fan, so I was wondering how this was going to be. We finally reached the Crystal City (near the Pentagon) and ate P.F. Changs. That day the city felt completely different. There was electricity running through the city and it started to run through my veins. I was just a few hours to seeing one of the biggest shows in the Hip Hop/R&B. I couldn’t believe I was a part of it.
We finally hopped on the Metro and went to MCI Center (now known as the Verizon Center). We got in and I was curious to where we were going to be. My mom gave the usher the ticket and boom we were put on ground level. The show wasn’t General Admission so seats were there and people had assigned seats. I had a great view and couldn’t wait for it to stop.
The lights dim. The countdown begins. Pyro, music starts, the intro movie begins and here’s the show. They both came out in white suits with two buses crashing through the wall. They did their songs together from their album and spent the rest of the night trying to one-up each other. Jay-Z had a terrific show. The energy was there and people loved it. By the end of the night, my mom told me that she was now a Jay-Z fan. R. Kelly had people dancing in the aisle and the ladies loved his show. At the end of the night, it was a great experience. It’s also great to know that before the melt down of the tour and each artist started suing each other, it was good to see two forms of music on stage. One night, there were no beefs or egos, just something that fans would appreciate for the rest of their lives.