To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the hip-hop classic Illmatic, we reunited Nasty Nas and Faith Newman, the A&R rep for his debut album. In part one of the five-part series, Faith and Nas remember the time they first met each other, and Faith explains why she thought the teenage MC from Queensbridge was "shy." Keep checking back all week for more of this one-of-a-kind conversation.
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