DJ Cassidy explains how he picked the songs for his mic-drop moment at the DNC
Who knew? But apparently, DJ Cassidy — was born to run the DNC.Indeed, it was a state roll call to remember at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Monday night, as the NYC DJ — the spinner to the stars, from Jennifer Lopez to Beyonce to Barack (as in Obama) — turned his “Pass the Mic” franchise into a state-to-state bop-along for 75 epic, invigorating minutes.All 50 US states and territories were represented in a hands-in-the-air-across-America throwdown that was as unprecedented as, um, say, President Joe Biden dropping out of the race a month ago.Cassidy — who had previously campaigned for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris even before she became Biden’s VP pick in 2020 — had been working for a month on putting together this seamless mix of music that was literally across the map.“This is the democratic process,” Cassidy told The Post. “I learned a lot about this over the past month.