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Analyzing The Bigger Picture by Lil Baby Societal

Lil Baby’s song “The Bigger Picture” addresses racial discrimination and police brutality during the 2020 peak of COVID-19. It speaks out for the Black community, calling for unity and change beyond race.

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Jeffrey Sims12. 14 22SociologyThe Bigger Picture AnalyzedThe Bigger Picture By Lil BabyThe Bigger Picture is a song made by the artist Lil Baby and became nominatedfor the BET's Best Impact Track, and Best Rap Song all for the year 2020. During this timeCovid 19 was hitting its peak and more instances of police brutality within america. During thistime especially with all the police brutality cases going around, more and more african americansin the united states did not want to go outside. Due to this fact multiple hip hop artists createdsongs about these issues and how they need to come to a halt. One of those artists came up with agreat song called.The Bigger Picture". The Bigger Picture's meaning was to speak out for theblack communit}’ from constant decades of racial discriminations and brutalities. The song isalso meant for everyone no matter tvhat race you are so that you can get the message to attemptto change and make the world a better place.In the song Lil Baby goes into depth and speaks about how long the black communit}’ hasbeen suffering from this much hate and discrimination. He also states. "They are killing us for noreason. Been goins on for too Ions to aet even. Throw us in cases like dogs and hvenas". Thisquote best helps explain how the black community has been experiencing these racialdiscriminations and are tired of being treated Like animals the}’can dispose of at any time."Even’ colored person ain't dumb and all whites not racist. I be judging by the mind and heart, Iain't really into faces". This quoted lyric is self explanatory. We can't go on about life thinking ofhow each and ever}-single black person is dumb or a terrible person as well as not thinking that
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