Jay-Z Rides The Subway To His Final Performance In Brooklyn...And Guess Who He Bumps Into?!

 

Video of Jay-Z & Ellen's Subway Chat 

 

 

In a brief segment excerpted from "Life + Times," a 24-minute documentary about the artist's involvement in building the Barclays Center, Jay-Z rides the subway to his eighth and final show at the arena. The fact that Jay-Z opted for the R train over his Maybach may be shocking in itself, but it gets better: While on the train, he meets "Ellen," a charming older woman who chats with the superstar for a bit

 

That adorable elderly woman on the New York City subway might not have known she was talking to Jay-Z, but Jay-Z also didn't know that he was talking to Ellen Grossman, who's got her own throne in the art world, beyond any reasonable doubt.  Her CV on her personal website confirms a long list of grants and accolades.

 

The Jay-Z run-in and the subsequent viral video have also made Grossman into even more of a legend. "I have a zillion requests to be Facebook friends with people," she told Daily Intel's Joe Coscarelli.

 

Now that the two legends have met, Grossman is entertaining the idea of a collaboration with the hip-hop giant, she told Coscarelli. Her work with chain-link fences might go well with Jay-Z's aesthetic, she suggests. Those projects use "the negative associations with the chain link fence having to do with confinement and exclusion," she explained in this AOL video.

"I don't think I'm capable of altering what I do to tailor to him, but I think there might be some intersection," she added.

(Video Courtesy of Necole Bitchie)

-As Reported by The Atlantic Wire and Huffington Post.