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 two of the five-part series, Faith and Nas reminisce on the days when the album was late and over-budget, and Nas was "going through some things" as a teenage rap star living in the Queensbridge projects. Find out how Faith went to the head of Columbia Records and kept them from dropping the young artist before he had a chance to release his masterpiece. Keep checking back all week for more of this one-of-a-kind conversation.
RELATED: Memory Lane: Nas Remembers Illmatic Moments with Faith Newman, Part 1 RELATED: Nas Performs "Illmatic" at Coachella
RELATED: Nas Defining Moments Part 1
RELATED: 10 Things You Don't Know About Nas' "Illmatic"
RELATED: Nas "Life Is Good" Complex Cover Story
