Mario Andretti – world famous race car driver, Indy 500 winner, F1 World Champion, etc. Met on multiple occasions and once saw him crash his moped into a line of parked mopeds cuz he was going to fast
Shook hands with
Bill Clinton when he was president, but not during a campaign year.
Afrika Bambaataa
Afeni Shakur – she signed a book about Tupac for me
GZA – really laid back and chill
Tony Touch – got really drunk and spent all of GZA’s set sitting on the floor running the dat for GZA
Mos Def – diva, still nice though
Talib Kweli – diva, still nice though, I sat in VIP at the club with him and ate the chicken wings he ordered while some groupie chick shook her booty in my face. A couple years later my friend introduced him to a friend of his and she became his white girl in the midwest. Coincidentally he paid another friend of mine, who was a cab driver at the time, to drive her from Madison, WI to Chicago, IL (probably 3hr at least) in his cab.
dead prez on multiple occasions and had political discussion with them
Chuck D
Jim Gaffigan the comedian – Hoooooot Pooocckkketts – he spent more time talking to my wife though
Boots from
The Coup – first learned of the word “gentrification” from him and met him on multiple occasions
Immortal Technique – he picked up this girl at the club we were at and I was going to give him a ride to the hotel, but he didn’t want to wait so he picked this chick up and slung her over her shoulder like she was a backpack and just walked off with her.
Heather B – the rapper/real world season 1 “star”
Sway, Tech, DJ Revolution
Former Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate
Cynthia Mckinney, not during campaign
The whole
Boot Camp Clik (Smif N Wessun, Buckshot [no Five FT], OGC, Sean Price [no Rock]) and DJ Evil Dee met them on multiple occasions – they brought me on stage with them too
Brooks Bollinger – former NFL QB and current QB of Florida Tuskers UFL team – in college saw him get his nose broken at a party, his friend was trying to get him to go to a hospital and I said to them “He doesn’t need a hospital, he’s a pussy”. In retrospect I got off easy as the offensive line was busy chasing down and cornering in a parking structure the guy that broke his nose.
All those siccness rappers that I really don’t listen to anymore –
Lynch, Doomsday, First Degree, Loki, Zagg, etc