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Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 29 June 1996

Having adopted the moniker of one Pablo Escobar, NAS ESCOBAR set about creating vivid lyrical depictions of life in his native New York tenement slums. Now, with biblical and gangster references well in tow on his second album, It Was Written, the rapper is set to start the rebellion. DELE FADELE listens to his tales of the (inner) city.

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