Lil Baby Releases New Song “The Bigger Picture” In Support Of Protests Against Police Brutality

Lil Baby just released his latest song, “The Bigger Picture,” in solidarity with the ongoing protests in response to the killing of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers. Throughout the track, Lil Baby takes on police brutality and the unjust criminal justice system.

“The Bigger Picture” opens with a news clip about police escalating violence during the peaceful protests in Minneapolis. On the chorus, Lil Baby calls for solidarity between races to tackle issues like racial inequality and police brutality:

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 gone ‘head start here

On the third verse, he directly addresses the protests:

They trainin' officers to kill us
They shootin' protestors with these rubber bullets
They regular people, I know that they feel it
These scars too deep to heal us
What happen to COVID? Nobody remember
It ain’t makin' sense, I’m just here to vent
It happened to one of yo people, it’s different
We get it, the system is wicked, just learn how to pick it

Earlier on, Lil Baby touches on his own experiences with the criminal justice system:

I went to court and they sent me to prison
My mama was crushed when they said I can’t leave
First I was drunk, then I sobered up quick
When I heard all that time they gave to Taleeb
He got a life sentence plus
We just some products of our environment
How the f-ck they gone blame us?

He continues by detailing the extra precautions that Black people take just to survive in America:

F-cked up the way that we livin is not getting’ better
You gotta know how to survive
Crazy, I had to tell all of my loved ones to carry a gun when they going outside
Stare in the mirror whenever you drive
Overprotective, go crazy for mine
You gotta pay attention to the signs

On his final verse, the Atlanta rapper pledges to do his part in the fight against police brutality:

I won’t take the stand
But I’ll take a stand for what I believe
Must not be breathing the air that I breathe
You know the way that I bleed, you can bleed
I never been a fan of police
But my neighborhood know I try to keep peace
So it’s only right I get in the streets
March for a reason, not just on GP
Our people died for us to be free

“The Bigger Picture” follows protest songs by Meek Mill (“Otherside of America”), YG (“FTP”), Terrace Martin (“Pig Feet”), and many more.

Listen to the song above, and read all the lyrics to Lil Baby’s “The Bigger Picture” on Genius now.