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. On Friday morning, Lil Baby caught many by surprise.
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