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Cassidy the Hustler is back with Krossover Entertainment



Cassidy: Back to Business
By: Shauna Barbosa
POSTED: 13:09 EST, April 11, 2007
Recovered and recording, the Hustla speaks for the first time on his near-fatal car accident. A VIBE exclusive.

It's a rainy October night in 2006. Cassidy is riding in an SUV en route to pick up a member of his team. Driving through the rain, on their way to the studio to work on the rapper's third album, the four passengers are laughing and listening to music. "Watch out!" is the last thing Cassidy hears, just before a BOOM! A truck crashes into them, bending the SUV into a U-shape.

When Cassidy wakes up two weeks later, he can't remember any of his rhymes.

March 2007. He wears his Stall & Dean fitted cap backward, cocked to the left. Still that smooth-faced Philly rapper - despite visible scars trailing from his eye to behind his ear. His smile's gorgeous enough to get eyelashes batting. Five months since the accident, he moves and speaks with confidence.

Cassidy sat down with VIBE recently and spoke candidly about the changes he's gone through over the last few years. From being charged with murder in 2005, to his near-fatal car accident in '06, Cass is back. With more meat on his bones and a new spiritual focus, for the first time, he bears his account of his accident - or at least what he can remember. Though sustaining brain injuries, broken bones, and blisters from ripping out IVs during treatment, his recovery was a rather fast one. He showed his scars, did some signature dance moves from the "I'ma Hustla," video, laughed and smiled. No reason to feel pity. More reason to get ready for his comeback.