![]() The second verse suggests a conscious attempt at this break: The song is also noteworthy because it breaks with and addresses Lil Baby’s past musical trajectory, which has been self-centered and focused around the backward, selfish flaunting of money, drugs, violence, women, jewelry and clothing. Stick together, we can get it up out of them.” Other lines in the song reiterate the need for the masses to unify, rather than divide: “People speaking for the people, I’m proud of them. It’s bigger than black and white It’s a problem with the whole way of life It can’t change overnight But we gotta start somewhere Might as well gon’ ‘head start here We done had a hell of a year I’ma make it count while I’m here God is the only man I fear The chorus elaborates on the issues confronting the general population: This acknowledgement that people aren’t inherently racist and that unifying across racial boundaries creates power that strikes fear in the ruling class frames the song. I can see in your eye that you fed up Fuck around, got my shot, I won’t let up They know that we a problem together They know that we can storm any weather He follows this up by stating, “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,” recalling Martin Luther King Jr.’s quote about judging one not “by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” It’s too many mothers that’s grieving They killing us for no reason Been going on for too long to get even Throw us in cages like dogs and hyenas In the first verse, Lil Baby speaks about police brutality targeted towards black people: 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. ![]() The main message that they have is that they want to see the officers involved, they want to see those officers arrested. A well-known Atlanta attorney says without the video of what happened, he doesn’t believe any district attorney would have brought any criminal charges against them.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. ![]() “Protests continue amid a growing national outcry over the death of George Floyd (No Justice No Peace in the background), Last Night peaceful protests in Minneapolis escalated as demonstrators clashed with police, who fired tear gas and rubber bullets. The lyrics follow in full below, listen to the song here.
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