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DJ Cassidy‘s Pass the Mic is headed to Sin City. The series-turned-live performance event will be playing for three weeks at Las Vegas’ Bakkt Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in the summer.

Set for July 5, 6, 12, 13, 19 and 20, the residency will feature performances from Ja Rule, Fat Joe, Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh, with special guests appearing weekly. As was done on his Pass the Mic television show, “DJ Cassidy will ‘Pass the Mic Live’ on stage to each artist through his groundbreaking format, taking audiences on an unprecedented musical journey, redefining the art of collaboration and celebration,” says a press release.

“Just as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop united in Las Vegas to form the Rat Pack, one of the greatest shows of all time, Ja Rule, Fat Joe, Slick Rick, Doug E. Fresh, and I will unite to create an experience that will go down in Las Vegas history,”  DJ Cassidy says in a statement. “In the great tradition of Liberace, Elvis Presley, Wayne Newton, and Siegfried & Roy, we will redefine showmanship in ways The Strip hasn’t witnessed since the days of The Sands and The International.”

Cassidy adds that “every night will be a unique one time only event, black tie (optional) of course.”

General tickets go on sale starting Saturday, April 13, at 10 a.m. PT via Ticketmaster.com, with presales starting Wednesday, April 10, at 10 a.m. PT. All presales will end on Friday, April 12, at 10 p.m. PT.

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Thanks to her new album Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé has landed another Billboard chart milestone.

Twenty three songs from the album have charted on the Billboard Hot 100. In addition to three of them making the top 10, as previously reported, she’s got four more in the top 30 and the rest scattered all the way down to #87. Among the highest-ranking ones: “Levii’s Jeans,” “Bodyguard,” “Blackbiird” “Ameriican Requiem” and “Spaghettii.”

These new chart entries make Bey the third woman ever to rack up 100 or more chart entries on the Hot 100: She now has 106. The others are Nicki Minaj, with 148, and Taylor Swift, with 232. Drake is the artist with the most chart entries of all time overall: 329.

Beyoncé now has more Hot 100 entries than her husband, Jay-Z, who has 105. Their 6-year-old daughter, Rumi, is now the youngest-charting female artist in the history of the Hot 100, thanks to her feature on the song “Protector,” which lands at #42 on the chart. She breaks the record previously held by her sister Blue, who was 7 when she hit #79 in 2019 as a featured artist on the song “Brown Skin Girl.”

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