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Beginnings: The Breakthrough Moment

DJ Cassidy, DJ

“A week later I was playing Puffy’s party for the MTV Awards.”

When I was 18 years old, I was playing at a club in New York. It was called … let’s see, which one was it? Lotus! And it was an empty night at a hot club, and it was pouring rain. I saw Puffy come out of a corner of the room. And he gets on the dance floor and stays there until 5:30 in the morning. I was playing the classic dance records of the late ’70s, early ’80s, and as he’s leaving, he stops by the booth and he goes, “Where’s the DJ?” I was 18, and I looked like I was 12. And I say, “Me.” And he says, “It’s been you here all night playing all these records?” And I say, “Yeah.” He wrote down his number on a napkin, said call me the next day. And I called him the next day and he said, “I want you to play a party for me next week.” So a week later I was playing Puffy’s party for the MTV Awards. I said to myself, Oh shit, this is real. This is real.


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