Willie Perry Jr. aka DJ Casper or Mr. C The Slide Man, was an American DJ, hype man, and songwriter. He was born and raised in Chicago on May 31, 1965, he was known as “Casper” due to frequently being clad in all-white attire on stage.

The talented Perry made an appearance as a DJ in a season 6 episode of Orange Is the New Black, in Crazy Eyes’ hallucination of the prisoners and guards, line dancing to the Cha Cha Slide.

DJ Casper’s cause of death: How did DJ Casper die?

Perry left the world at the age of 58, due to kidney and liver cancer on August 7, 2023. He was known to have been diagnosed with kidney cancer and neuroendocrine cancer in January 2016. After unsuccessful surgery the same month, he began chemotherapy. In an interview in July 2018, he stated he was in remission. In 2019, he reveal that he beat his liver and kidney cancers and said he was a changed man, stating “That was God’s way of just slowing me down just a little bit.”

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