It Was Written is one of the 21 eras on the community Nas tracker, which runs from Before Illmatic to Unknown. The tracker places it after Illmatic and before The Album. unreleased.world has 14 tracks from it: 12 full songs and 2 snippets — 52 min of music in all, played 2 times on the site.
The tracker dates 4 of these leaks to 2026; the most recent, “Mobb Deep - Eye For An Eye [V1]”, surfaced Mar 14, 2026.
The most played cuts are “East Coast/West Coast Killas [V3]”, “⭐ Deja Vu” and “✨ Analyze This [V1]”. “🗑️ Mobb Deep - Eye For An Eye [V4]” is the longest at 6:22.
Every track streams free in the player; open the album to hear it start to finish.
The community tracker documents all of these 14 tracks, with leak dates for 4 of them and producer credits for 7; it is in the tracklist below.
Tracklist
- 1⭐ Deja VuHigh Quality · Throwaway · prod. Chris Winston4:27
- 2✨ Analyze This [V1]High Quality · OG3:48
- 3East Coast/West Coast Killas [V3]Recording · OG2 plays0:11
- 4✨ Take It In Blood [V1]High Quality · OG · prod. Live Squad, Lo Ground, Top General Sounds2:52
- 5Street Dreams (Remix) [V1]High Quality · Remix2:12
- 6Life Is Like A Dice Game [V2]Low Quality · OG · prod. Easy Mo Bee2:40
- 7🏆 True DialectHigh Quality · Throwaway · prod. Marley Marl0:48
- 8The Message [V1]High Quality · OG · prod. Trackmasters4:12
- 9Mobb Deep - Eye For An Eye [V1]Leaked Mar 14, 2026 · Lossless · Demo · prod. Havoc5:02
- 10✨ UnderstandingHigh Quality · Throwaway3:13
- 11Mobb Deep - Eye For An Eye [V2]Leaked Mar 14, 2026 · Low Quality · Demo · prod. Havoc5:02
- 12🗑️ Mobb Deep - Eye For An Eye [V4]Leaked Mar 14, 2026 · Low Quality · Demo6:22
- 13Mobb Deep - Eye For An Eye [V6]Leaked Mar 14, 2026 · Lossless · Demo6:22
- 14Mobb Deep - An Eye For An Eye [V7]High Quality · Demo4:41
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Most played from It Was Written
- 1East Coast/West Coast Killas [V3]2 plays
- 2⭐ Deja Vu0 plays
- 3✨ Analyze This [V1]0 plays
- 4✨ Take It In Blood [V1]0 plays
- 5Street Dreams (Remix) [V1]0 plays
The It Was Written era
What has surfaced of the 26 entries the tracker files under It Was Written: 10 in full, 2 tagged, 2 as snippets and 12 unavailable.
Following his 1994 debut album Illmatic, Nas returned two years later with his highly anticipated sophomore album It Was Written. Despite the praise, Illmatic slowly reached platinum status as Nas watched fellow New Yorker The Notorious B.I.G. gain bigger success the same year with his debut Ready To Die a balance of hardcore rhymes and a commercial sound courtesy of producer Puff Daddy.
- 04/19/1994Illmatic officially releases
- 07/02/1996It Was Written officially releases
All 21 Nas eras
In the order the community tracker lists them.
- Before Illmatic4 tracks
- Illmatic6 tracks
- It Was Writtenthis page
- The Album13 tracks
- I Am...25 tracks
- Nastradamus2 tracks
- Stillmatic18 tracks
- God's Son9 tracks
- Street's Disciple9 tracks
- NASDAQ: Dow Jones10 tracks
- Hip-Hop Is Dead18 tracks
- Nas17 tracks
- Distant Relatives1 track
- Life Is Good17 tracks
- Hiatus Era16 tracks
- NASIR32 tracks
- King's Disease8 tracks
- King's Disease II3 tracks
- King's Disease III / Magic 2 / Magic 33 tracks
- Light-Years11 tracks
- Unknown1 track
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