Now, as the world spends the second half of 2023 ratcheting up its celebrations of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, the man known for boater hats, golden microphones, and crate-digging is taking it all back home for “Pass the Mic Live!” at New York’s Radio City Music Hall on July 21 for a celebration featuring 25 all-time heavy hitters including Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Roxanne Shanté, Slick Rick, Brand Nubian, and EPMD. That eventually caught the attention of BET, who commissioned seven half-hour PtM specials for television. The concept was simple: spin some vinyl and don the master of ceremonies hat and pass the figurative microphone to as many rap luminaries of yesterday and today as he could possibly recruit. When Cassidy Podell - better known to youthful digital denizens and stay-true backpacker rap cats alike as DJ Cassidy - embarked on an experimental sort of Instagram Live hangout at the height of COVID-19, little did he know that he’d soon find himself connecting with a laundry list of his musical heroes.Ī native New Yorker and immutably voracious hip-hop fan, he had rubbed elbows with big names in the rap game ( and Barack Obama and Joe Biden) for nearly 20 years playing all manner of parties and hot-ticket events, but in relatively short order, something felt different about “Pass the Mic,” his music entertainment brainchild readymade for the lockdown dog days at the pandemic’s 2020 apex. It will make you see the world in a new way-and it will make you want to change what you see.Ahead of his “Pass the Mic Live!” show in New York featuring a who’s-who of rap all-stars, hear from DJ Cassidy about how the project evolved and what hip-hop truly means to him. I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a searing story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time it is a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love.

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