Subsequent week’s Spirit of Life Gala honoring Lyor Cohen, world head of music at YouTube and Google, will characteristic a one-time-only version of DJ Cassidy’s celebrated Move The Mic Reside! The section will showcase greater than a dozen hip-hop and R&B artists, together with Public Enemy, Large Daddy Kane, Dru Hill, EPMD, Ja Rule, Memphis Bleek, Swizz Beatz and T.I., all of whom have performed an element in Cohen’s 40-year legacy spanning Rush Administration, The Island Def Jam Music Group, Warner Music Group, 300 Leisure and past.
The sold-out gala is happening Oct. 18 on the Pacific Design Middle in West Hollywood, Calif. It’s a fundraiser for Metropolis of Hope, one of many largest most cancers analysis and remedy organizations in the US and a number one analysis heart for diabetes and different life-threatening sicknesses.
DJ Cassidy’s Move the Mic collection shortly reworked from viral sensation to primetime TV collection on BET. Now a reside tour, DJ Cassidy’s Move The Mic Reside! lately offered out Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in New York with a one-time-only live performance that includes 25 icons of hip-hop’s golden period.
“As a 10-year-old deejay and hip-hop child rising up in New York Metropolis, I idolized Lyor Cohen lengthy earlier than he ever knew my title,” DJ Cassidy mentioned in a press release. “Then, as his Def Jam intern in my highschool years, a hero grew to become a mentor. I’m actually honored to deliver ‘Move The Mic Reside!’ to Metropolis Of Hope and rejoice Lyor’s dedication to creating the most effective well being care obtainable to hip-hop followers and performers by uniting a once-in-a-lifetime lineup of iconic artists who’ve influenced his huge musical legacy and hip-hop’s world affect as a complete.”
Chuck D of Public Enemy added: “Lyor Cohen is a pioneer, and myself and Public Enemy have been beneficiaries of his visionary audacity. Hip Hop’s trip by means of the music business has been turbulent, however along with Lyor we’ve grown with it and gone by means of it and arranged what was obligatory. Working with Lyor makes you take note of all the pieces. And he’ll inform you that.”
Metropolis of Hope is celebrating 50 years of partnership with the Music, Movie and Leisure Trade (MFEI) fundraising group. Over this era, business executives and influencers have raised almost $150 million to learn Metropolis of Hope’s mission to remodel the way forward for most cancers care.
“Our business cares so very a lot about overcoming well being inequities for underrepresented teams who proceed to get left behind,” mentioned Evan Lamberg, MFEI board president and president of Common Music Publishing Group. “Metropolis of Hope is carefully main efforts to enhance well being fairness. In teaming up with our music, movie & leisure business, we will take motion to take away obstacles so that everybody can get the care they want and deserve.”