The Great (Ohio) Adventure part 3 or Real Recognize Real

this is just a word of advice whenever going somewhere like saaaaaaaay a concert and u are out of town or even in town (but most definitely out of town) and you DON'T know where you are going google maps it or something. do not i repeat DO NOT call the venue and take directions form the lil girl who answered cuz that little girl will get you lost and cause you to miss the opening act (J.Cole) that may or may be one of the main reasons for even seeing the show to begin with. so at the risk of being redundant we got lost on the way to the Value City Arena, and missed J. Cole's set all together. but in all fairness he only did 2 songs. i mean it was a little upsetting while we are making our pit stop to "shake hands with the president" ( or urinating if you must) we are hearing" flyer than the rest of them"...but that is life you win some to loose some and i tell you that was the only L i took that night. as we make our seats listening to the music by WALE ((ATTENTION DEFICIT out 11/10) oh and happy birthday Dicky Poo lol what a lucky day to be born on...anyway) a couple of realizations came 2 me. 1st our seats were really great. 2nd when you have floor seats close to the stage the ushers are nice. i am use to getting the treatment that says please go to your seat and DIE....but not that night. i felt like v.i.p. (which i am case yaint heard). the where smiling at me like a tip was involved in ushering. they showed me to my seat like they were Vanna White and my seat was a consonant (a letter that is NOT a,e,i,o,u, and sometimes y). as we settled into our seats i remember the last time i was this close to wale.
~cue flashback~

April 19, 2009

its a saturady night. Vandy is having their Rites of Spring Music Festival . just the previous night i missed K'naan , Santigold , Q-Tip , and T.I. (yes folks nashville gets it in). so it would be safe to say that i wouldn't miss the acts preforming this night. the night The Flaming Lips and N.E.R.D. are preforming i would b out there. but just as fate would have it WALE was preforming at Barfly. now i love my city but i also know my city. yo gotti, lil "bad azz" boosie, webbie are just a couple of people who could pack out a club. artist "hipsters" and "sneakerheads" mess wit.....um...not so much. this is not to say the part of the club we were in was not packed and jumping (cuz it was) , the thing is the show was intimate. i was about 5-10 feet from him the whole performance....this picture clearly shows how close i was......

FAST FORWARD TO PRESENT DAY......

we arrive to our seats. they are great. 6 rows from the stage right in the middle. need less to say i'm geeked like band camp, pocket protectors, and wedgies. wale and ucb are doing their thizzle. on his last song he decides to do it in the crowd. so he is hoping off the stage people are making their way to him to get a dap or what not. he is making his way to my row shortly after i arrive to the end of it. he is bringing his arm up to dap me i perceive ,what i interpret as,a pause. he precedes to finish the dap. and i am left with a crazy thought. i said to myself "George, he looked at you like he knew u". so u know i gotta hate on ...um me ...and i say " nigga, you tripping dat dude don't know you". so i return to my chair just happy for the dap. just as i have put this "crazy" thought out of my head BJ says "dude wale was looking at you mad crazy. it was like dude i know u but where". i was like "yessssss i knew i wasn't crazy". and as we sit waiting for the next set (n.e.r.d.) i have a feeling like this night just can't get any better....