Lil Baby – “The Bigger Picture”

Lil Baby‘s “The Bigger Picture” is a protest song pure and simple. Opening with news reports on the killing of George Floyd the track quickly evolves into a treatise on...
Lil Baby - The Bigger Picture

Lil Baby - The Bigger PictureLil Baby‘s “The Bigger Picture” is a protest song pure and simple. Opening with news reports on the killing of George Floyd the track quickly evolves into a treatise on being a black youth in America. He speaks of police brutality and a mother’s heartache saying, “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” and of the fear that most people will never experience, I see blue lights, I get scared and start runnin’ / That shit be crazy, they ‘posed to protect us / Throw us in handcuffs and arrest us while they go home at night, that shit messed up”. This is 4:13 wake up call to everyone turning a blind eye to police brutality and the prison industrial complex, a tale of the angst of knowing that nobody cares. Proceeds from this single will be donated to organizations supporting the cause. These organizations as of yet have not been named.

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