"I can honestly say tonight represents something bigger than a Grammy... bigger than selling millions of records... bigger than my wildest musical dreams," said rapper-turned-Renaissance man Swizz Beatz (born Kasseem Dean) in his keynote address at a celebratory dinner for Harlem Hospital "s new Mural Pavilion Thursday night.

"When I go home tonight, I "m going to write in my journal... today "s date, because it marks history," Dean went on to say, officially accepting his role as the first Global Ambassador for New York City’s public hospitals system.

The evening "s festivities not only marked the unveiling of the hospital "s new $325 million wing -- which features a gallery of original paintings created under President Roosevelt "s Harlem Renaissance-era Works Progress Administration -- but a commemoration of the near-fatal stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. almost 54 years to the day.

On hand: Dr. John W.V. Cordice, one of the surgeons who operated on King, ultimately helping to save his life.

"If it wasn "t for him, we wouldn "t have had the "I Have A Dream " speech in our life," Dean noted, before on going to relish in another one of Cordice "s successes -- his sixty-plus year marriage.

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