Lil Baby - The Bigger Picture (Lyric Video)

[00:05.14] Protests and growing national outcry continues over the death of George Floyd

[00:09.40] (Section 8 just straight cooked this motherfucker up)

[00:10.15] Last night, people protesting in Minneapolis escalated

[00:12.90] As demonstrators were lashed by tear gas and rubber bullets

[00:17.15] The main message here, the main message here, the main message here

[00:19.42] Is that they want to see those officers involved

[00:21.92] They want to see those officers arrested

[00:24.40] Officers arrested

[00:25.65] (I can't breathe, I can't breathe)

[00:28.64] Trade my 4x4 for a G63, ain't no more free Lil Steve

[00:31.90] I gave 'em chance and chance and chance again, I even done told them please

[00:35.14] I find it crazy the police'll shoot you and know that you dead, but still tell you to freeze

[00:38.65] Fucked up, I seen what I seen

[00:40.19] I guess that mean hold him down if he say he can't breathe

[00:42.17] It's too many mothers that's grieving

[00:43.64] They killing us for no reason

[00:44.65] Been going on for too long to get even

[00:46.65] Throw us in cages like dogs and hyenas

[00:48.41] I went to court and they sent me to prison

[00:50.15] My mama was crushed when they said I can't leave

[00:51.90] First I was drunk, then I sobered up quick

[00:53.41] When I heard all that time that they gave to Taleeb

[00:55.14] He got a life sentence plus

[00:56.91] We just some products of our environment

[00:58.40] How the fuck they gon' blame us?

[01:00.40] You can't fight fire with fire

[01:01.90] I know, but at least we can turn up the flames some

[01:03.90] Every colored person ain't dumb and all whites not racist

[01:07.15] I be judging by the mind and heart, I ain't really into faces

[01:10.91] Fucked up, the way that we livin' is not getting better, you gotta know how to survive

[01:14.16] Crazy, I had to tell all of my loved ones to carry a gun when they going outside

[01:17.40] Stare in the mirror whenever you drive

[01:19.16] Overprotective, go crazy for mine

[01:21.18] You gotta pay attention to the signs

[01:22.66] Seem like the blind following the blind

[01:24.66] Thinking 'bout everything that's going on

[01:25.92] I boost security up at my home

[01:27.92] I'm with my kind if they right or they wrong

[01:29.65] I call him now, he'll pick up the phone

[01:31.41] And it's five in the morning, he waking up on it

[01:32.92] Tell 'em wherever I'm at, then they comin'

[01:35.17] I see blue lights, I get scared and start runnin'

[01:36.65] That shit be crazy, they 'posed to protect us

[01:38.65] Throw us in handcuffs and arrest us

[01:40.40] While they go home at night, that shit messed up

[01:42.16] Knowing we needed help, they neglect us

[01:43.65] Wondering who gon' make them respect us

[01:45.41] 'Cause I can see in your eye that you fed up

[01:47.41] Fuck around, got my shot, I won't let up

[01:49.15] They know that we a problem together

[01:50.90] They know that we can storm any weather

[01:52.67] It's bigger than black and white

[01:53.91] It's a problem with the whole way of life

[01:55.67] It can't change overnight

[01:57.15] But we gotta start somewhere

[01:58.90] Might as well gon' 'head start here

[02:00.40] We done had a hell of a year

[02:02.15] I'ma make it count while I'm here

[02:04.15] God is the only man I fear

[02:06.42] Fuck it, I'm goin' on the front line

[02:07.67] He gon' bust your ass if you come past that gun line

[02:09.15] You know when the storm go away, then the sun shine

[02:10.90] You gotta put your head in the game when it's crunch time

[02:12.90] I want all my sons to grow up to be monsters

[02:14.66] I want all my daughters to show out in public

[02:16.40] Seems like we losing our country

[02:17.66] But we gotta stand up for something, so this what it comes to

[02:19.90] Every video I see on my conscience

[02:21.65] I got power, now I gotta say somethin'

[02:22.90] Corrupted police been the problem where I'm from

[02:24.65] But I'd be lying if I said it was all of them

[02:26.65] I ain't do this for the trend, I don't follow them

[02:28.41] Altercations with the law, had a lot of them

[02:30.42] People speaking for the people, I'm proud of them

[02:31.90] Stick together, we can get it up out of them

[02:33.90] I can't lie like I don't rap about killing and dope, but I'm telling my youngins to vote

[02:36.65] I did what I did 'cause I didn't have no choice or no hope, I was forced to just jump in and go

[02:40.40] This bullshit is all that we know, but it's time for a change

[02:42.65] Got time to be serious, no time for no games

[02:44.42] We ain't takin' no more, let us go from them chains

[02:46.43] God bless they souls, every one of them names

[02:48.15] It's bigger than black and white

[02:49.66] It's a problem with the whole way of life

[02:51.40] It can't change overnight

[02:52.92] But we gotta start somewhere

[02:54.39] Might as well gon' 'head start here

[02:55.92] We done had a hell of a year

[02:57.66] I'ma make it count while I'm here

[02:59.66] God is the only man I fear

[03:02.17] They trainin' officers to kill us, then shootin' protestors with these rubber bullets

[03:04.90] They regular people, I know that they feel it

[03:06.45] These scars too deep to heal us

[03:07.90] What happened to COVID? Nobody remember

[03:09.65] It ain't makin' sense, I'm just here to vent

[03:11.42] It happen to one of your people, it's different

[03:13.64] We get it, the system is wicked, just learn how to pick it

[03:15.41] Knowledge is power, I swear I'm a witness, I know that I'm gifted

[03:16.90] I won't go too deep 'cause I'm scared they'll get me

[03:19.40] Ain't scared to admit it, some shit I can't mention

[03:21.40] It's people who can, well, here's the chance

[03:23.15] I won't take the stand, but I'll take a stand for what I believe

[03:25.65] Must not be breathing the air that I breathe

[03:27.40] You know that the way that I bleed, you can bleed

[03:29.16] I never been a fan of police

[03:31.15] But my neighborhood know I try to keep peace

[03:32.91] So it's only right that I get in the streets

[03:34.67] March for a reason, not just on GP

[03:36.15] Our people died for us to be free

[03:37.93] Fuck do you mean? This was a dream

[03:40.19] Now we got the power that we need to have

[03:41.65] They don't want us with it and that's why they mad, yeah

[03:43.17] It's bigger than black and white

[03:45.42] It's a problem with the whole way of life

[03:46.91] It can't change overnight

[03:48.90] But we gotta start somewhere

[03:50.39] Might as well gon' 'head start here

[03:52.17] We done had a hell of a year

[03:53.92] I'ma make it count while I'm here

[03:55.68] God is the only man I fear

[03:57.92] It's bigger than black and white

[03:59.40] It's a problem with the whole way of life

[04:01.15] It can't change overnight

[04:02.68] But we gotta start somewhere

[04:04.15] Might as well gon' 'head start here

[04:07.41] We done had a hell of a year

[04:07.91] I'ma make it count while I'm here

[04:09.92] God is the only man I fear