Dominique Armani Jones, professionally known as Lil Boy, dropped the music video for his latest track 'The Bigger Picture' in the aftermath of demonstrations over the death of George Floyd by the Black Lives Matter Movement and other activists, a video that earned 114,271,400 views on YouTube. In the song, Lil Baby shows solidarity with the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests calling for justice against police brutality in the United States and systemic racism. It was released on June 12, 2020, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. Proceeds from the song go to various sources, including Breonna Taylor’s attorney, The Bail Project, and Black Lives Matter. A Rhetorical Analysis of Lil Baby’s The Bigger Picture music video. The Bigger Picture - Lil Baby Lyrics - Protests and growing national outcry continues over the death of George Floyd / // (Section 8 just straight. ' The Bigger Picture ' is a protest song by American rapper Lil Baby. The song was released a few days after he was seen at the George Floyd protests in Atlanta, accompanied by the city’s councilman, Antonio Brown. He marched in his hometown of Atlanta and released the anthemic protest track, 'The Bigger Picture.' The song, which addresses systemic racism, the mistreatment of the Black community by police and. His anger erupts across the whole track, rapping against the beat with lyrics like “We just some products of our environment,/How the fuck they gon’ blame us?” His disgust with systemic racism is punctuated by tragic reality: “Crazy, I had to tell all of my loved ones to carry a gun when they going outside.” In the song’s second verse he admits ‘The Bigger Picture’ contrasts his usual subject matter, but this only serves to strengthen his message a thousandfold– “I can’t lie like I don’t rap about killing and dope, but I’m telling my youngins to vote/I did what I did ’cause I didn’t have no choice or no hope, I was forced to just jump in and go.” Earlier on June 12, Lil Baby, the biggest star in Atlanta hip-hop right now, had released The Bigger Picture, a raised fist in the Black Lives Matter movement following the police killing of. This features in the music video for the song, which has amassed over 50 million views in just over a month. His album My Turn, released this year, is one of the highest selling of the year, but it’s a single, separate from the album, released in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, which is becoming his greatest career achievement.Īlthough the instrumental is standard fare for Lil Baby’s work– sombre piano, alongside hard-hitting trap drums– the bitter aggression he displays in the song’s first verse is like nothing he has ever released, cutting no corners with lines like “I find it crazy the police’ll shoot you and know that you dead, but still tell you to freeze.” His bitterness is no surprise, considering his vocal presence at Black Lives Matters protests. Atlanta rapper Lil Baby is one of the most prominent artists in popular trap music, receiving a Grammy nomination in 2019 for the hit single ‘Drip Too Hard’ alongside his frequent collaborator Gunna.
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