Lil Baby - The Bigger Picture
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[00:00.00]The Bigger Picture (Explicit) - Lil Baby
[00:01.03]Lyrics by:Dominique Jones/Rai'Shaun Williams/Noah Pettigrew
[00:02.06]Composed by:Dominique Jones/Rai'Shaun Williams/Noah Pettigrew
[00:03.09]Protests and growing national outcry continues over the death of George Floyd
[00:06.20]Section 8 just straight cooked this motherf**ker up
[00:08.13]Last night people protesting in Minneapolis escalated
[00:11.81]As demonstrators were lashed by tear gas and rubber bullets
[00:15.86]The main message here the main message here the main message here
[00:18.30]Is that they want to see those officers involved
[00:21.14]They want to see those officers arrested
[00:23.30]Officers arrested
[00:24.71]I can't breathe I can't breathe
[00:27.62]Trade my 4x4 for a G63
[00:29.54]Ain't no more free Lil Steve
[00:31.02]I gave 'em chance and chance and chance again I even done told them please
[00:34.42]I find it crazy the police'll shoot you and know that you dead
[00:37.04]But still tell you to freeze
[00:37.99]F**ked up I seen what I seen
[00:39.22]I guess that mean hold him down if he say he can't breathe
[00:41.27]It's too many mothers that's grieving
[00:42.86]They killing us for no reason
[00:44.07]Been going on for too long to get even
[00:45.83]Throw us in cages like dogs and hyenas
[00:47.54]I went to court and they sent me to prison
[00:49.07]My mama was crushed when they said I can't leave
[00:50.92]First I was drunk then I sobered up quick
[00:52.48]When I heard all that time that they gave to Taleeb
[00:54.41]He got a life sentence plus
[00:56.22]We just some products of our environment
[00:57.98]How the f**k they gon' blame us
[00:59.63]You can't fight fire with fire
[01:00.91]I know but at least we can turn up the flames some
[01:03.14]Every colored person ain't dumb and all whites not racist
[01:06.48]I be judging by the mind and heart I ain't really into faces
[01:09.65]F**ked up the way that we livin' is not getting better
[01:11.71]You gotta know how to survive
[01:13.28]Crazy I had to tell all of my loved ones to carry a gun
[01:15.70]When they going outside
[01:16.71]Stare in the mirror whenever you drive
[01:18.41]Overprotective go crazy for mine
[01:20.20]You gotta pay attention to the signs
[01:21.92]Seem like the blind following the blind
[01:23.67]Thinking 'bout everything that's going on
[01:25.36]I boost security up at my home
[01:27.07]I'm with my kind if they right or they wrong
[01:28.74]I call him now he'll pick up the phone
[01:30.45]And it's five in the morning he waking up on it
[01:32.27]Tell 'em wherever I'm at then they comin'
[01:34.09]I see blue lights I get scared and start runnin'
[01:35.87]That s**t be crazy they 'posed to protect us
[01:37.60]Throw us in handcuffs and arrest us
[01:39.61]While they go home at night that s**t messed up
[01:41.27]Knowing we needed help they neglect us
[01:43.10]Wondering who gon' make them respect us
[01:44.72]I can see in your eye that you fed up
[01:46.38]F**k around got my shot I won't let up
[01:48.06]They know that we a problem together
[01:49.89]They know that we can storm any weather
[01:51.30]It's bigger than black and white
[01:53.08]It's a problem with the whole way of life
[01:54.76]It can't change overnight
[01:56.42]But we gotta start somewhere
[01:58.04]Might as well gon' 'head start here
[01:59.62]We done had a hell of a year
[02:01.41]I'ma make it count while I'm here
[02:03.17]God is the only man I fear
[02:05.48]F**k it I'm goin' on the front line
[02:06.66]He gon' bust your a*s if you come past that gun line
[02:08.42]You know when the storm go away then the sun shine
[02:10.14]You gotta put your head in the game when it's crunch time
[02:12.00]I want all my sons to grow up to be monsters
[02:13.57]I want all my daughters to show out in public
[02:15.31]Seems like we losing our country
[02:16.68]But we gotta stand up for something so this what it comes to
[02:18.89]Every video I see on my conscience
[02:20.68]I got power now I gotta say somethin'
[02:22.36]Corrupted police been the problem where I'm from
[02:23.92]But I'd be lying if I said it was all of them
[02:25.83]I ain't do this for the trend I don't follow them
[02:27.61]Altercations with the law had a lot of them
[02:29.38]People speaking for the people I'm proud of them
[02:31.09]Stick together we can get it up out of them
[02:32.80]I can't lie like I don't rap about killing and d**e
[02:34.66]But I'm telling my youngins to vote
[02:36.12]I did what I did 'cause I didn't have no choice or no hope
[02:38.19]I was forced to just jump in and go
[02:39.68]This bulls**t is all that we know but it's time for a change
[02:41.75]Got time to be serious no time for no games
[02:43.50]We ain't takin' no more let us go from them chains
[02:45.38]God bless they souls every one of them names
[02:47.04]It's bigger than black and white
[02:48.61]It's a problem with the whole way of life
[02:50.53]It can't change overnight
[02:52.02]But we gotta start somewhere
[02:53.55]Might as well gon' 'head start here
[02:55.27]We done had a hell of a year
[02:56.98]I'ma make it count while I'm here
[02:58.74]God is the only man I fear
[03:01.00]They trainin' officers to kill us
[03:02.18]Then shootin' protestors with these rubber bullets
[03:03.99]They regular people I know that they feel it
[03:05.66]These scars too deep to heal us
[03:07.03]What happened to COVID nobody remember
[03:08.84]It ain't makin' sense I'm just here to vent
[03:10.42]It happen to one of your people it's different
[03:12.37]We get it the system is wicked just learn how to pick it
[03:14.53]Knowledge is power I swear I'm a witness I know that I'm gifted
[03:17.05]I won't go too deep 'cause I'm scared they'll get me
[03:18.85]Ain't scared to admit it some s**t I can't mention
[03:20.45]It's people who can well here's the chance
[03:22.15]I won't take the stand but I'll take a stand for what I believe
[03:24.96]Must not be breathing the air that I breathe
[03:26.60]You know that the way that I bleed you can bleed
[03:28.39]I never been a fan of police
[03:30.11]But my neighborhood know I try to keep peace
[03:31.71]So it's only right that I get in the streets
[03:33.54]March for a reason not just on GP
[03:35.31]Our people died for us to be free
[03:37.17]F**k do you mean this was a dream
[03:38.85]Now we got the power that we need to have
[03:40.42]They don't want us with it and that's why they mad yeah
[03:42.73]It's bigger than black and white
[03:44.33]It's a problem with the whole way of life
[03:46.20]It can't change overnight
[03:47.73]But we gotta start somewhere
[03:49.20]Might as well gon' 'head start here
[03:50.90]We done had a hell of a year
[03:52.65]I'ma make it count while I'm here
[03:54.42]God is the only man I fear
[03:56.72]It's bigger than black and white
[03:58.21]It's a problem with the whole way of life
[03:59.94]It can't change overnight
[04:01.56]But we gotta start somewhere
[04:03.10]Might as well gon' 'head start here
[04:04.82]We done had a hell of a year
[04:06.53]I'ma make it count while I'm here
[04:08.34]God is the only man I fear