The introduction to the song features news report clips on the George Floyd protests followed by the chant, “I can’t breathe.” “ The Bigger Picture“ was released on June 12, along with a music video featuring Lil Baby at the Atlanta protests, spliced together with shots of demonstrations around the country and the violent police response. After 12 of the songs on the album entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Lil Baby’s career total of 47 songs on the Hot 100 chart ties him with Prince and Paul McCartney. Lil Baby’s second and latest full-length album, My Turn, was released in February of this year, debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 album chart and this week returned to number one. While lots of trap music today is still associated with illicit drug culture, it has increasingly entered the mainstream in the past decade and its musical elements-rapid bursts of programmed hi-hats, sub-bass kick drum and melancholic melodic content-have had a strong influence on the sound of modern pop music. The trap genre originated in the 1990s in the Southern US and often revolved around the life of drug dealing. Trap is a slang word for a place to deal drugs. Lil Baby has been an active and increasingly popular rapper in the trap music genre since 2016. The song is significant in that it speaks sharply on issues of race and police brutality, while refuting the racial narrative-that the fundamental dividing line in society is race, not class-and connects these social issues to a broader critique of society as a whole. But now that he has a platform he is bringing awareness to people who just might not understand.Twenty-five-year-old Atlanta rapper Lil Baby (Dominique Armani Jones) released a new song earlier this month entitled “The Bigger Picture” in response to the ongoing wave of protests triggered by the police murder of George Floyd. He explains that he did not have a choice for some of the things he has done in his life. Not only does he address police brutality and systemic racism in our country but also talks about his past as a Black man. I highly recommend listening to the song if you haven’t already. I was very glad that Lil Baby made this song, and decided to share his thoughts with the world. If we all ignore what’s on the outside and pay more attention to how people are on the inside, I think they world would be filled with less hate. I am glad Lil Baby acknowledge these stereotypes because that is what’s making the world a hateful place. While some people see a white person and assume they are racist. Some people see a black person and hold a bias that they are not intelligent. Baby also goes on to say ” Every colored person ain’t dumb and all whites not racist, I be judging by the mind and heart, I ain’t really into faces.” This is my favorite verse in the song because it addresses certain stereotypes people are holding. When listening to this song I did not know this happened to I googled it. Baby is bringing awareness to events that happened that people might not know about. “I find it crazy the police’ll shoot you and know you dead but still tell you to freeze.” Baby is referring to a murder that happened to a black individual who was already dead but the police still told them to freeze. Lil Baby shows solidarity with the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests calling for justice against police brutality in the United States and systemic racism.Throughout the song, Lil Baby explains what life is like as a Black man, while telling examples of how Black people have been hurt in this world we are living in. Lil Baby dropped this song around the time George Floyd was killed. “The Bigger Picture” is a protest song by an American rapper “Lil Baby”.
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