Beyond The Mic, a new docu-series that chronicles Hip-Hop luminaries and their lives beyond music, is set to debut on ROCK THE BELLS TV today (April 21) at 12PM EST.

Legendary Queensbridge icon, MC Shan, is featured in the pilot episode that focuses on his early career touring the world with Roxanne Shantè and Biz Markie, and the pressure to maintain the image of "MC Shan."

"MC Shan is a character that I made up," he said in one clip. "I'm happy because I shed that. If I wanna be that, I gotta have the watches and the chain and this and that, but as me I can do what I want."

Shan expressed in the episode that he is content and enjoying his independence from the recording industry. He enjoys spending time with his children, which are the most important thing to him.

"I love my children," he said. "Those are the only things that are actually mine, that belong to me. That's the only love I need — and them banging me in the head with a controller to wake me up in the morning is love. If you've never felt that kind of love I don't know what to tell you."

MC Shan, an early member of Marley Marl's Juice Crew rose to prominence in the mid-80s when he released "Feed The World," "Marley Marl Scratch" and his breakout hit, "The Bridge," an ode to his home, the infamous Queensbridge Projects. "The Bridge" prompted "The South Bronx," a response from a then little known crew called Boogie Down Productions, which prompted the legendary "Bridge Wars."

In 1993, Shan produced "Informer" by Snow which spent seven weeks at #1 on the Billboard Top 100 and sold over five million copies worldwide, earning two places in the Guinness Book of World Records for biggest selling reggae single in the U.S. and highest charting Reggae single in the U.K.

"That record was #1 in seven or eight countries at one time, and in 2019 Daddy Yankee remade it," Shan said in a clip. "I have plaques on my wall from 2019, not just the plaques, I got the bread to go with it."

Beyond The Mic was filmed at Shan's home in Georgia where he operates his bus refurbishing business and has built a video production studio. The episode shows Shan grilling, showing off his "party buses" and custom built RVs while living a life of contentment away from the music industry that he once excelled in.

Shan credits his skills as a handyman to his grandfather. "It's all due to my Grandfather and his hammer," he says in another clip. "Most of the things that I build, I build with his hammer. When I grab that hammer it's like Thor. It's like the power of Sylvester Moltke comes through that hammer."

Beyond The Mic premiers on ROCK THE BELLS TV today at 12PM EST. Subscribe to get alerts about new episodes before they drop.