By Baby’s own admission, if Young Thug hadn’t paid him to rap, he’d likely still be in the streets. For three years, the Quality Control rapper carved out a viewpoint that was workman-like in nature. In form but not style, Baby is part of a lineage of Atlanta solo stars (T.I., Future, Ludacris) who become a time capsule for everything the city is, lacks, and can be. But of all the feelings Lil Baby exorcises on the track, it’s trepidation and fear that colors “The Bigger Picture.” In verse, he’s both angry and confused - “I find it crazy the police will shoot you and know that you dead but still tell you to freeze” - trying to make sense of what millions of Americans are struggling to come to grips with. According to Lil Baby’s Instagram and his representatives, proceeds from “The Bigger Picture” will go to The National Association of Black Journalists, Breonna Taylor’s attorney, The Bail Project, and Black Lives Matter.įor over four minutes and three verses, Baby raps like a torrent, sprinting across the beat as he tries to come to grips with the weeks-long protests calling for justice after the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others. Produced by Section 8 and Noah, the song begins with morose keys, a soundbite pulled from the news detailing the Minneapolis protest, and chants from those who took to the streets. “The Bigger Picture,” the rapper’s latest single, exists somewhere between open rage and pleading urgency. Peering at the listener behind a “No Justice, No Peace” face mask and wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt, the Atlanta rapper reintroduced himself to a world that, as of late, he’s already begun to conquer. Ĭlick here to view video of Big K.R.I.T.On Friday morning, Lil Baby caught many by surprise. Perhaps we will all be lucky enough to find that one person who sees that bigger picture we are speaking of or just helps us paint it in its entirety. Listen to the story and the constant request from the rapper. But, if you have some time, stop and check out the song without the video. I’ll let you watch it and form your own opinions of that. I won’t tell the story about the video or what it’s supposed to mean. It may not mean much, but for me that gave me some sense of validation that I wasn’t the only one that thought the song was dope. What made grin from ear to ear when I was browsing the web and came across a post about this song was that K.R.I.T. All of it made me say that I would use this track here at 3GW and maybe even in one of my DJ mixes. The visual that was provided while listening to the delivery from the musician. The delivery that was used to relay the lyrics to the listener. The lyrics that were carefully intertwined with the production. The production that accompanied the sample. I was mesmerized by the sample that was used. When I first heard it I must have played it back 4 or 5 times just to keep hearing all that was encompassed within the song. I responded that I wasn’t as thrilled about this one as I was about some of his earlier mixtapes, but I did go on to tell him of all the tracks on it my absolute favorite hands down was Bigger Picture. I spoke with him a few days later and he asked me what did I think of the K.R.I.T. I told him that some of the joints that I would be listening to soon were Talib Kweli‘s Prisoner of Conscious and Big K.R.I.T.‘s King Remembered In Time. Talking to my frat brother one day, he asked me had I checked out some albums & mixtapes that had recently dropped.
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