Quavo dropped the video for his second tribute to late Migos associate and nephew Takeoff on Wednesday evening (Feb. 22). Within the clip, Quavo is surrounded by luxurious automobiles and jewels, lamenting that he would give all his riches and spoils of fame away simply to see his Unc and Phew bandmate yet another time.
The video opens with Quavo burning a blunt on his sofa whereas watching footage of the great outdated days and promising to care for their households as he laments that he’s attempting to maneuver ahead, however simply doesn’t have the solutions. “However I do know I can’t look backwards, that’s harmful,” he raps. “I needed to go learn the Bible and take just a few pages.”
That is the second track Quavo has launched since Takeoff’s killing in November outdoors a bowling alley in Houston, Texas. Earlier this yr he dropped “With out You,” an emotional ballad that he carried out with Maverick Metropolis through the In Memoriam section of this yr’s Grammy Awards.
And whereas Quavo will get nostalgic concerning the good occasions he shared with Tackle the brand new track (“My chain, my watch, my wrist/ My motherf—in home, my rise and grind/ I’d give away all this s–t simply to see my dawg yet another time”), he additionally hints on the ongoing reported rigidity between himself and third Migos member Offset. “So don’t ask concerning the group/ He gone, we gone, younger n—a, it may’t come again,” he raps on the observe.
However close to the tip of the three-minute horn-spiked tune, Quavo comes again round to paying tribute to the genre-smashing trio, stating within the outro, “This how legends was born, greatness/ I couldn’t do it with out the best group on the planet… greatness.”
Watch the “Greatness” video under.