Chad Ochocinco’s heartfelt reaction to daughter becoming member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority

While detailing the experience, Ochocinco was brought to the brink of tears several times. The probate’s influence, combined with his daughter’s success, clearly had an immense emotional effect. He later likened the experience being at a concert for the King of Pop.

“The AKAs went last. This is the only way I can explain it. It felt like Michael Jackson. When them AKAs came out, marching to that song, and I see my baby strutting and hitting that stroll? Aw man. Unc, that was one of the greatest feelings, one of the dopes feelings, being able to see my daughter cross. I’m supposed to be in the stands, but I’m all on the floor. I snuck down to the floor.”

That night truly had an immense effect on Johnson, to the point that he’d consider enrolling at an HBCU as a student.

“Watching clips and seeing all the stuff going on and then being able to experience it tonight at PV? That makes me want to enroll just so I can get the HBCU experience. I ain’t never experienced nothing like that. I’ve been around the whole world and there’s nothing like what I experienced tonight.”

Throughout Johnson’s recount of the story, Sharpe simply smiled and nodded. A product of Savannah State himself, he knows all too well the influence an HBCU can have on someone.

“Ain’t nothing like [the energy at HBCUs],” Sharpe said. “Like I said, I think everybody should have to spend a semester at an HBCU to get the ambience, to get the pageantry; to be at a homecoming, to go to the step show, cause ain’t nobody stepping like what they do. We do it big. To be at the yard when all the sorors and frats are doing their part. We used to have step shows and people would come from Georgia Southern, Fort Valley, Clark, Morris Brown, they would come down and challenge. To feel that energy for homecoming and the rush when they go over. Ain’t nothing like it.”