Music Review

It Was Written (1996)

Nas
Reviewed by Dimitri Ehrlich | Jul 26, 1996
EW's GRADE
A-

Details Lead Performance: Nas; Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap

Nas' delivery on It Was Written is disjointed, but his concerns are straightforward. On ''Street Dreams'' he details how coke has ravaged his neighborhood, and on ''Black Girl Lost'' he sympathizes with the struggle of African-American women without sounding self-consciously PC. Humor disguises the grim subject matter while Nas' eye for minutiae lends credibility and urgency to his hip-hop short stories. A-

Originally posted Jul 26, 1996 Published in issue #337 Jul 26, 1996 Order article reprints

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