[Intro: Mads]
I'ma dedicate this to my... grandmother
[Verse 1: Mads]
Hey yo, granny, it's your little boy
Turn into a man and I'm makin' noise
You'll never understand what I thank you for
Tryna pay it back, cause you gave me more
I know that we are poor
I know you're feeling war
Inside your heart and you would like another apart-ment that is not, on the second floor
A sore spinal cord
I'm tryna make you proud
I'm tryna sell a sound, but everybody tryna keep me down underground
But I'm loud, so no doubt, I ain't f**in' sellin' out
I see no reason for it
I'm not letting you leave yet, see you in the morning
I remember the first stroke, you took it like a champ and damn we still keep the hope
[Chorus]
Just hold on
The time is near
You'll be strong (Mads: we'll make it)
So have no fear (Mads: I promise)
You're gonna fly to the stars
And you'll never look back down
So just hold on
The time is near
[Verse 2: Mads]
Hey yo, granny, it's your little man
Writin' to you from my tour tryna understand
Rap game and fame but it doesn't change a thang
When I get home we gon' talk about everything
Keep the door locked, even the chain
Turn off hot plates, and medicate the brain
I know you in a lot of pain, still you get up everyday
Tryna shake it off and knitting clothes for the refugees
And the presence of your legacy is blessing my destiny
Everybody tryna mess with me, never get the best of me
Cause you got the recipe, mentally
And you raised your kids and kinda ready to chill
But then the blood spilled, yeah, sh** was turning ill
And your daughter couldn't raise him, child-service chasin'
You wouldn't let them take him, replace him, thank you
[Chorus]
Just hold on (Mads: And I mean that)
The time is near (Mads: From the bottom of my heart)
You'll be strong (Mads: I don't know where the f** I'd be, if it wasn't for you)
So have no fear (Mads: Thanks)
You're gonna fly to the stars
And you'll never look back down
So just hold on
The time is near
[Verse 3: Mads]
So even though the industry turned me into an enemy
I'll never quit for sh**, long as there is melody
I'll be the venom and set ‘em in kennel, penalty
For tryna stop me and takin' dimes outta my family
I take it personal cause I worked for the world to know
That a boy can k** it without doing commercials, I'm Virgil
Up in the verse and worth a search
A verbal alert, to anybody shovin' dirt on my name
Cause I was raised by the greatest
My grandma
And for her, I'm gonna make it
Major... later