CASSIDY - CASSIDY: 'ONLY EDUCATION WILL STOP THE KILLING'

Freed rapper CASSIDY has hit out at ghetto culture in the wake of D-12 star PROOF's murder, claiming people from poor areas need to be educated about more legitimate ways of being successful. The HOTEL star was reunited with his family after being released from a prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 2 March (06). He served eight months for involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault charges, and is now keen to put his jail spell behind him. He tells AllHipHop.com, "They don't have access to the paper (money) that's out here in the world. That's one of the reasons violence is at an all-time high. It's a lot of ways to be successful and a lot of ways to make paper, but the dudes in the 'hood, the minorities don't know about it. "They feel all they can do is be a drug dealer, rapper, or a sports player. They feel if they ain't one of those three things, they are left out so they gotta take what they want. "That's not true. There are a lot of other ways to be successful and probably generate more money than a celebrity or a sports player. But they don't know those things. "Knowing those things is not in the 'hood. The people doing those things is not in the 'hood."