 Now we're gonna kick in the hot gear right about now with a real special show with a real special artist Making his debut on your MTV raps. I want to welcome Nas to the show. What's up? Sup, Paul Shilling like a villain I go by the name of the illmatic one Nas He'll straight out of Queensbridge projects been around for a little while long enough to see I will get down in the street Seeing the James, you know, Santa kind of got me into this hip-hop music thing You know I'm saying I've been writing rhymes since I was like nine years old Dedicated to the music to the heart, you know, especially when my pops took me and my man to see Wow Stand which saw you in it. You know I'm saying now. I'm here doing an interview with you. That's real You know me, but yeah, I just basically make my music It's just straight from the heart and straight from the thoughts of what's going on and the black man's mind young black man Growing up, you know with so many paths you could walk through the one that's gonna lead you to the right direction The one that's gonna set you up Make you fall in the trap So a type of paths to walking to you know, I mean I walked into the one That blessed me, you know, so gave me a chance to put my voice on wax and voice The anger the hate and love All types of feelings and all types of situations that go on Do you see yourself as different characters as one character's a superhero of the street so to speak or something like that. I Can't call it. I just I mean I write, you know, man, whatever is the outcome So be it. I just I write for Like a lot of brothers who don't write rhymes, you know, I mean that's out there I write for them. I voice their words for them. You know, I mean, I put it in like a poetical form I do that for them. You know, I'm saying that's I hang around nobody really rhymes that I hang around So and I'm the only one so I got to represent for us and what we all going through together It's a lot of us falling a lot of us making moves to go in the college doing the right thing Some of us getting money on the street Well, I think we all got one focus, you know, I'm saying and that's just to be successful in the long run I mean, what do you start with let's say when you're writing the rhyme? Starts straight from boredom, you know, it's being bored Writing rhymes just doing a down low hobby thing that nobody believed in But I used to believe in it But nobody around me used to believe in it when I was crazy crazy young writing rhymes They didn't really nobody really thought it would blow hip-hop would blow to where it is today