VICTOR ROBERTS

### Songwriter(s)

Victor Roberts, Jabari Manwa, Romil Hemnani, Ryan Beatty, Kevin Abstract & ​bearface

## Music video

**VICTOR ROBERTS** is the twelfth and final track from BROCKHAMPTON's fifth studio album GINGER. The song is named after American hip hop artist Victor Roberts, who made his musical debut in the track, and has been a friend of founding BROCKHAMPTON member Dom McLennon since 2009.

## Lyrics

**[Verse: Victor Roberts]**

My fuckin' Power Rangers couldn't protect me from that LAPD kick though

Motel, pick pokes

Went through the livin' room, straight to the bathroom, lookin' for great dope

My papa lookin' at my mama, lookin' at that closet like

"There that shit go"

Two keys and a thumper, ten K with the mustard

A whole family and no buster, this don't add up

My padre facin' them three strikes

And my mama just smacked the pipe

Crack smoke, got crashed tight, this shit still bad, 'cause

The boys peeped a Brillo pad and some glass tucked

And it's lookin' like my parents was up in here runnin' off through that stash dump

But the fact, crack different than coke

Plus the smoke wasn't close enough to choke me

Lord screwed me so mom could kick big facts at bruh

The truth is, we held a bag for this kid we took in

Tryna part with his old ways, maybe we all mistook him

'Cause I knew something was fucked up when he said

"Don't open or look in this here satchel that I'll be back for in just a couple of minutes"

And hella hours later, like, lookin' in an hour later

What about cold food for a cold fool?

Motherfucker put my family in danger

I blame myself for all my anger

I never looked inside his stuff so he never really needed to hide his stuff

When you showed me what was really inside his stuff

I never had a clue

Now I know as police, you gotta do what you gotta do

But this my family, all I got us, my niggah

My own mother just shot at us, my niggah

This is why we here

And I don't fuck with niggas I don't know

But I had the heart to help this kid in danger, tears in anger

Gemini gettin' violently

The police silence don't help anxiety

My daddy's passin', all of this wildin'

All of these pilots, not one of them flyin'

Y'all flyin', all tryna fight this divin' nose duck

Popo stuck, play your part

All this commotion and the neighbors listenin' like, "Oh fuck"

Shit finna spark

All this emotion, need a decision made with some heart

'Cause ours is broken, they tryna lock the third, not your mouth

Pops chokin', this shit ain't kosher

Moms is over if CPS get sent to page us

I ain't gon' see my parents for ages

All this erosion, no more protection

Shit don't feel safe

What graduation? What degrees?

What dissertation? What imagination?

Imagine my whole world taken away from me

All over some basic misconstrued melodies

My heart racin', clutchin' my red Ranger, pacin'

I can barely breathe

Mister policeman

Po-pooliceman

We got what we need

Just let 'em be

**[Chorus: Ryan Beatty]**

Thank God for my bitches still sticking with me

Thank God, when I talk, I know you listen to me

Thank God that I'm built for the distance

Thank God for me, thank God for me

Thank God for my bitches still sticking with me

Thank God, when I talk, I know you listen to me

Thank God that I'm built for the distance

Thank God for me, thank God for me

**[Bridge: bearface]**

And if you're hurting, love yourself with my heart

And if you're hurting, love yourself with my heart

**[Chorus: Ryan Beatty]**

Thank God for my bitches still sticking with me

Thank God, when I talk, I know you listen to me

Thank God that I'm built for the distance

Thank God for me, thank God for me

Thank God for my bitches still sticking with me

Thank God, when I talk, I know you listen to me

Thank God that I'm built for the distance

Thank God for me, thank God for me

**[Outro: Ryan Beatty]**

Thank God for me, thank God for me

Thank God for me

Thank God for me, thank God for me

Thank God for me

Oh, oh

(Nobody)

## References

1. ↑ Dom McLennon tweets about his friendship with Victor Roberts.