This weekend marked the 20th anniversary of one of the best follow-ups in Hip-Hop history -- Nas' "It Was Written." Time has a way of putting things in its proper perspective. When this dropped, a lot of "purists" considered this a "sellout" album due to its different sound from the seminal "Illmatic." These days, that viewpoint sounds laughable. Songs like "The Messeage," "Take It In
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I truly believe that as a writer you're only as good as the last book you've read. This weekend I've been spending time with these three publications.
The first is In the Ring with John L. Sullivan, a biography and career retrospective about the first gloved heavyweight boxing champion. Nearly 500 pages, writer Adam Pollack has done the exhaustive research into Sullivan's fighting record
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