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 direction, in contrast to the raw, unpolished and underground tone of his debut. Despite its significant impact on hip hop at the time, "Illmatic" did not experience the larger sales of most major releases at the time in hip hop, such as Snoop Dogg's "Doggystyle" (1993). This was due in part to Nas's shy personality and uninvolvement in promoting the record. Nas began to make appearances on other artists' work, including Kool G Rap's "4,5,6" (1995) and Raekwon's "Verbal Intercourse" on his album "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…" (1995), which made Nas the first non Wu-Tang Clan member to appear