MEMORY LANE: Nas Remembers "Illmatic" Moments With Faith Newman, Part 5: The Genesis

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nas' Illmatic, we reunited Nasty Nas and Faith Newman, the Columbia Records A&R rep who signed him for his debut album

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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 the final episode of this five-part series Nas talks about the opening interlude on this 9-track masterpiece, an evocative audio montage known as "The Genesis," and Faith asks him to return her VHS copy of Wild Style. Just in case you aren't up on them already, catch the rest of these one-of-a-kind conversations below as we take a trip down memory lane.

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