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A first drink tempts you into going for more and eventually leads to get crooked eyes/ getting drunk. Kirk compares this process to the way his lyrics lure you into his clasp. Once you start, you can’t stop.
Also note the pun on the phrase “blink of an eye.”
This also seems to be an oblique reference to Crooked I.
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When you're buzzing
Fine, I give 'em my other line, another rhyme Joey Bada$$ (Ft. Chuck Strangers, Dessy Hinds & Kirk Knight) – Satellite
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Nas has never been at the absolute top of the game. Even when he released Illmatic, Biggie stole the mainstream attention with his own album, Ready to Die. He’s never even won a Grammy. However he’s been nominated a whopping 18 times, and thus Nas' crowning achievement is not one or brilliant years, but that he’s always been there, for the past 20 years, steady as a rock. Nas points out this detail to Cole to show that you don’t need skyrocketing radio hits to have a career.
In fact, Nas has sold seven platinum albums, more than any other rapper apart from Eminem and fellow New Yorker Jay-Z. What’s remarkable is that he did all this without a single platinum single, which means that people listen to him for the whole package and not for something on the radio. It is this solid fan base that Nas wants Cole to build.
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This is how Nas' “hobby” turned into a full blown passion and became the make or break path to success. When the harsh realities of the streets robbed Nas' dream of living like the Cosby’s, Nas had to turn to rap as way of realizing his dream.
Thus Nas picked up his pen and paper, detailed the gritty Queens street life in masterful lyricism, released one of the quintessential albums of hip hop, and became the legend that he is today.
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