NAS - It Was Written (Reissue) ROYAL HOUSE puita and dança-congo – borne

puita and dança-congo – borne from the islands’ largely slave-descendant population – with the sound of pop music beamed in on the radio from Europe

The album was the first in a celebrated trilogy of albums that Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan recorded together

Acclaimed mastering engineer Kevin Gray at CoHEARent Audio has overseen this pressing of Hot and Blue Guitar

Forged at the crossroads of cinema and hip-hop mythology

textured and melodic but that would also honour our own individual voices and styles

NAS - It Was Written (Reissue) ROYAL HOUSE puita and dança-congo – borneAfter such an unprecedented debut record, expectations were understandably high for Nas' follow up. What came next threw critics and fans for a loop, but was no less influential than Illmatic, and would become the most commercially successful album in the entirety of Nas' discography. The 1996 follow up was titled It Was Written, and in contrast to the urban bleakness of his debut, had Nas dipping his toes into the world of mafioso rap. Amidst