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The societal pressures faced by African Americans, including a lack of trust in those meant to protect them, remain a ongoing issue. Since 2013, 3,620 African Americans have been killed by police department. And there is a stat that “black people are 2.8 times more likely to be killed by police than white people in the United States” (mappingpoliceviolence). The evolution from slavery to systemic discrimination has had lasting impacts. In 'The Bigger Picture,' the song highlights police brutality, injustice, and racism, reflecting on the death of George Floyd, a murder of a black man committed by a white officer who enabled this man's ability to breathe, as he continued to make it known he could not breathe. This is just one example, but each verse demonstrates an impact of the wrong in society between black and white.
"The Bigger Picture" by Lil Baby serves as a powerful commentary on police brutality and systemic discrimination, highlighting the personal and collective struggles faced in black communities. The song's lyrics brightly describe the emotional and physical impact of injustice, which creates emphasis on the need for change and accountability for actions. As well as, raising awareness to the problems unseen globally. Lil Baby talks about the pain and anger felt by the community, mentioning the killing of George Floyd and the widespread protests that followed this murder.
"The Bigger Picture" by Lil Baby serves as a powerful commentary on police brutality and systemic discrimination, highlighting the personal and collective struggles faced in black communities. The song's lyrics brightly describe the emotional and physical impact of injustice, which creates emphasis on the need for change and accountability for actions. As well as, raising awareness to the problems unseen globally. Lil Baby talks about the pain and anger felt by the community, mentioning the killing of George Floyd and the widespread protests that followed this murder.
“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 gon' 'head start here
We done had a hell of a year
I'ma make it count while I'm here
God is the only man I fear”
The chorus verse talks on this issue being beyond just race, its society, and it clarifies the importance for the need of change. Although things are hard and unfair in a lot of instances, this is preaching that we need to find the determination in ourselves to put in our efforts to make a change with no fear on this earth, besides from the creator of life and death.
“They trainin' officers to kill us
Then shootin' protestors with these rubber bullets
They regular people, I know that they feel it
These scars too deep to heal us
What happened to COVID? Nobody remember
It ain't makin' sense, I'm just here to vent
It happen to one of your people, it's different
We get it, the system is wicked, just learn how to pick it”
This piece attacks the arrangements of the constantly changing law enforcement and justice systems for how they are choosing to treat certain people, or protesters. It points to the fact that officers, or those in charge, are people too. Which leaves thought to wonder, how do all these degrading acts not haunt a persons conscience? And this makes it so hard to reform society because of the problems that have been pushed back for so many years, always putting down those who are willing to try to make a difference.
“I see blue lights, I get scared and start runnin'
That **** be crazy, they 'posed to protect us
Throw us in handcuffs and arrest us
While they go home at night, that **** messed up
Knowing we needed help, they neglect us
Wondering who gon' make them respect us
I can see in your eye that you fed up”
This verse acknowledges the fear and disconnection of trustworthiness people under these circumstances are starting to have for the police department, making black people believe they must take matters into their own hands under any instance. It shows the as society preaches how certain people are supposed to protect us, they are causing great harm, neglect, and conflict.
The next few lines express the sorrow and frustrations of African American mothers who have lost children and loved ones, due to the ongoing acts of violence in this world. And speaks to the injustice of these deaths that aren't speciafically named, throughout time in comparison to a feeling of dehumanization that these communities are having to constantly face, time and time again.
“It's too many mothers that's grieving
They killing us for no reason
Been going on for too long to get even
Throw us in cages like dogs and hyenas”
This song, as a whole, reflects a spirit of contemporary American culture because it addresses a common, reoccurring problem of violence in our nation. There are specific points to the injustice system against African Americans after a long period of chaos, trying to gain freedom and equal rights. Thoughts of racial violence, racism, police brutality, protest, grief, prison, judgement, and forgiveness are invoiced throughout each lyric. And, “The Bigger Picture” asks a few direct questions like: "How are they going to blame us?" and “What happen to COVID?”, to make view to how black people really deal with what they are exposed to through years of uncertainty. As well as, the covid statement bringing view to how before this was a global issue that nobody seems to pay attention to anymore, like it disappeared, or as if it never existed. But in some cases, the virus of Covid-19 could be compared to the many deaths of African American males and females, and how after certain periods of time the names are disregarded by most. Lyrics throughout the song allow readers to gather their own questions and interpretations. But the audio, nor the words, solve the societal problems, rather they bring a connection to an audience who feel they have no voice or rights, like their problems aren’t being seen globally.
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