question: It Was Written features a supergroup that included the rapper raised in what New York borough?
answer: Brooklyn
context: Title: Thirteenth Avenue (Brooklyn)
  Passage: Thirteenth Avenue (or 13th Avenue) is a roughly 2.5 mi street in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City.  13th Avenue is also the commercial center of the neighborhood of Borough Park, located in Brooklyn.  The avenue, through Borough Park, extends roughly 1 mi in length and contains a huge variety of stores, businesses and food establishments catering to the local and international Haredi Jewish community.  While the sidewalks and streets are heavily congested during the week, all stores and businesses are shuttered on the Jewish Sabbath and Jewish holidays.  In December 2012, the stretch of 13th Avenue from 36th to 60th Streets was co-named Raoul Wallenberg Way in honor of the Swedish diplomat who saved 100,000 Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.  Many of these survivors settled in Borough Park after the war and raised their families here.
  Title: Marc Rosenthal
  Passage: Marc Joseph Rosenthal is an American singer and songwriter from New York City who sometimes performs with his band under the pseudonym Milton.  He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Larchmont, New York.  His first band was Bad Moustache, and he began his musical career opening for G-Love at concerts in Saratoga Springs, New York.  He originally became well-known for his hit song "In the City", which gained significant attention from being played on the New York City radio station WFUV.  The song was later included on his self-titled second album, released in 2006.  His subsequent song "Booker", a tribute to New Orleans pianist James Booker, was included on his 2008 album "Grand Hotel", and later named "Song of the Day" by NPR.
  Title: M3 Records
  Passage: M3 Records (formerly known as M3 Macmil Music) is an American independent hip hop record label in New York City, headed by rapper Masta Ace.  The label was founded in 2003, nearly two years after Ace's former label, JCOR Records, folded.  The first nationally distributed release on the label was Ace's fifth studio album "A Long Hot Summer".  The label is now home to Ace's supergroup eMC, which also features underground duo Punch & Words and Milwaukee rapper Strick.
  Title: Isla de los Estados
  Passage: Isla de los Estados (English: Staten Island, from the Dutch "Stateneiland") is an Argentine island that lies 29 km off the eastern extremity of the Argentine portion of Tierra del Fuego, from which it is separated by the Le Maire Strait.  It was named after the Netherlands States-General, and its original Dutch name was identical to that of the New York borough of Staten Island.
  Title: Stephanie Buhmann
  Passage: Stephanie Buhmann (born 1977) is an art critic, art historian, and curator.  Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, she is based in New York City.  She attended Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA and received a B.F.A. and Master in the History of Art, Architecture and Design from Pratt Institute, New York in 2002.  She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics and the Deutscher Fachjournalisten-Verband.  She is a contributing editor at artcritical.com.  Her essays, art reviews and interviews have been published by a variety of international newspapers and art magazines, including Sculpture Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and Art Papers.  She has a regular art column in The Villager.  In addition, she has curated numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, the Macy Art Gallery, Teacher's College, Columbia University and Jason McCoy, Inc.  Artists she has helped to exhibit include, Cora Cohen, Lee Krasner, Frederick Kiesler, Jackson Pollock, Richard Pousette-Dart.  Her published interviews include conversations with Polly Apfelbaum, Ernesto Neto, Kiki Smith, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and Nancy Spero.
  Title: New Jersey Route 17
  Passage: Route 17 is a state highway in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, that provides a major route from the George Washington Bridge, Lincoln Tunnel and other northeast New Jersey points to the New York State Thruway at Suffern, New York.  It runs 27.20 mi from Route 7/County Route 507 in North Arlington north to the New York border along Interstate 287 in Mahwah, where New York State Route 17 continues into New York.  Between Route 7 and Route 3 in Rutherford, Route 17 serves as a local road.  From Route 3 north to the junction with U.S. Route 46 in Hasbrouck Heights, the road is a suburban arterial with jughandles.  The portion of Route 17, from US 46 to Interstate 287 near the state line in Mahwah, is a limited-access road with all cross traffic handled by interchanges, and many driveways and side streets accessed from right-in/right-out ramps from the right lane.  For three miles (5 km) north of Route 4, well over a hundred retail stores and several large shopping malls line the route in the borough of Paramus.  The remainder of this portion of Route 17 features lighter suburban development.  The northernmost portion of Route 17 in Mahwah runs concurrent with Interstate 287 to the New York border.
  Title: Foxy Brown (rapper)
  Passage: Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand (born September 6, 1978), better known by her stage name Foxy Brown, is an American rapper, model, and actress.  She is of mixed Afro-Trinidadian, Indo-Trinidadian and Chinese Trinidadian descent.  She is best known for her solo work, as well as numerous collaborations with other artists and her brief stint as part of hip hop group The Firm.  Raised in Brooklyn, New York, her father Winston Marchand abandoned the family at a young age to pursue his career at ERAC records.  Her albums include "Ill Na Na" in 1996, followed by "Chyna Doll" in 1999, and Grammy-nominated "Broken Silence" in 2001.  She also performed on the 1997 self-titled album by the Firm, the only album to be released by that group to date.  She has held an extensive arrest record and served some time in jail.
  Title: WICR (AM)
  Passage: WICR ... "West Indo-Caribbean Radio" is an LP-AM Community radio station broadcasting in Richmond Hill, in the Queens, New York borough of New York City.
  Title: Charles Nolan
  Passage: Charles Nolan (June 5, 1957 – January 30, 2011 in New York City, New York) was an American fashion designer.  He was the fifth in a family of nine children and was raised in the New City borough of Brooklyn and the New York City suburb of Massapequa, Long Island.
  Title: It Was Written
  Passage: It Was Written is the second studio album by American rapper Nas, released July 2, 1996 on Columbia Records in the United States.  Following the moderate sales success of his acclaimed debut album, "Illmatic" (1994), Nas chose to focus his efforts in a more mainstream direction.  Primarily produced by Trackmasters, it is a departure for him from the raw, underground tone of his debut album towards a more polished, mainstream sound.  The album features mafioso and gangsta themes, and marks the first appearance of Nas's short-lived supergroup The Firm, which included rappers Foxy Brown, AZ, and Cormega.
citations: It Was Written Foxy Brown (rapper)