- If only I could get paid off of this, man,
I'd be a billionaire.
Yo, what's up everybody, my name is Elijah Conner,
and most people know me from the stare down with Diddy
that went viral.
That night that I was on The Four, I was just pumped up man.
I'm like yo, I'm about to go out and sing
in front of one of the biggest moguls:
Diddy, Meghan Trainor, DJ Kahled.
You know, they all here.
So when I first walked out, Diddy was like.
- Tell me about your ensemble brother.
- Because I'm not wearing that bull (bleep)
that the stylist was trying to put everybody else in.
Come up to my level, yah dig?
- You have anything else you want to tell us about yourself?
- You know royalty runs through my blood.
I'm a younger cousin of Prince.
- What?
- I didn't even want to mention Prince.
And the producer was like,
"We need you to mention that Prince is your cousin."
- Hold on, Prince who?
- Prince, (high pitch singing)
Purple Rain all right.
So I did love my music soul child,
the ladies in the audience was melting
and I had to go cousin Prince on them.
- You know what I mean, (high pitch singing)
I had to go on them, man.
So, I think because I didn't follow the pattern
of how the song was,
they kind of felt some type of way
like I kind of disrespected the song.
Meghan was feeling it, then she looked at Diddy
while I was singing was like,
she straightened up real quick.
I get it, politics, whatever.
When he took off the glasses,
I knew he was going to critique me.
- Straight up, I didn't like that at all.
- Are you serious?
Now come on, no, lets try this again man.
- And you came out too swagged out,
to not have had blown me away.
- And then he was like, "It's time to deliberate."
And they voted.
My face froze because I was literally in shock like,
my (bleep), are you serious?
Bro, come on.
I just sung my ass off, bro.
Y'all couldn't give me one blue.
People were like,
yo, is this dude really staring down Diddy?
But I wasn't even, I had blocked everybody else out.
I was locked in like, yo.
That meaning behind that stair down was like
no, you're wrong.
Like my man,
bruh, nah.
So I was just more in shock.
After the stare down I was like,
can I say something?
- You can say something.
- I went quiet for like 20 seconds
because I'm like thinking like yo, E,
this dude is Diddy.
I hade a Devil on the left shoulder,
and then I had the angel like Elijah,
- Not so fast. - come on.
So I said, you know what?
I just want to thank you, for this opportunity.
It's gonna pop either way, keep you're eye on E.
- I think God meant for that to happen,
because can you tell me who the winner was?
I'll wait.
Ah exactly, no one knows.
No one knows.
So soon as I walked off the stage,
I'm like yo, why is my phone on one percent?
Right before I went on stage, I was like at 90 percent.
The show wasn't even done,
we're like 30 minutes into the show,
and already I went viral.
I was getting DM's like yo,
we just want you to come do a walk through the club,
we'll give you like five bands,
just come through for like 20 minutes.
We just want to show the meme on the screen.
I'm like, All right. I need two flights, (laughs)
first class, just give me some bottles.
I was standing in the airport in the TSA line.
I see then pointing at me.
Sometimes people be like, that's Odell.
And I'll be like, bro, every light skinned dude
with blonde hair and a beard is not Odell.
He was like, "Bro I was just laughing at your meme."
And I'm like, what meme?
He was like, "Bro, Will Smith just reenacted
you staring down Diddy."
I'm sitting here texting this chick
and I was like, yo I'm going to be late picking you up.
So she sends me my stare down.
I'm like, yo, how did you send me this through iPhone?
She was like, "Boy, you in iPhone."
I'm like, shut up!
So I went and typed in stare
and I'm right next to Kevin Hart.
When Apple adds you as a meme to the iPhone,
you impacted culture.
If this came back around,
I would do exactly the same way I did.
Right now I'm in a bidding war.
Mind you, they haven't even heard the record,
just off the meme.
One thing I've learned from this whole situation,
is just like,
a lot of times you have to take that criticism,
and go look at a mirror and say, you know what,
thank you for telling me no.
Thank you for not giving me a chair.
Because that no, really meant new opportunity.
So, Diddy, much respect my brother,
thank you.
Here I was able to take an L and turn it into a W.
All right, so I want to show y'all something.
Yo, where my cousins at?
Yo!
Come look at this.
See how I put the one that took me viral up.
I had to make it it's own bruh.
I gotta put it on though,
I gotta put it on.
People can say what they want to say about this coat.
- But they're won't
- But this coat has opened some doors,
you know I had to go Detroit style on it.
We got to do the stare down...
- You want to? - Now there's something.
- Okay, you're the crazy one, you do it.
- Oh you Diddy? - You wanna do it here?
- I was going to be Diddy for once,
but go ahead, you Diddy, you Diddy.
- Ready? - All right.
- Gotta move the hair, hold on ready?
- Yeah. - All right here we go.
The world has been so programmed
to think that the word no is a bad word.
But take no and look at it as new opportunity,
a new door opening for you.
Because when I tell you, some doors open for me
that still opening up.