Garden city movement through low taxes, low rents and more space. Despite Howard’s best efforts, the home prices in this garden city could not remain affordable for blue-collar workers to live in. The populations comprised mostly skilled middle class workers. After a decade, the First Garden City became profitable and started paying dividends to its investors. Although many viewed Letchworth as a success, it did not immediately inspire government investment into the next line of garden cities. In reference to the lack of government support for garden cities, Frederic James Osborn, a colleague of Howard and his eventual successor at the Garden City
It Was Written in the song "Takeover" (2001) for assuming a "Pablo Escobar" persona and having a "one hot album ["Illmatic"] every ten year average". Nas, however, made something of a comeback with his fifth album "Stillmatic" (2001) and the follow-up "God's Son" (2002), which both sold in excess of 1 million copies. Afterwards, his subsequent albums tended to receive more positive reviews, including the platinum-selling "Street's Disciple" (2004) and his untitled ninth album (2008). Nevertheless, "It Was Written" has remained as Nas's best-selling album. It Was Written It Was Written is the second studio album by American rapper Nas, released July 2,