Lil Baby Drops Powerful New Protest Record ‘The Bigger Picture’

Lil Baby will be be donating proceeds from “The Bigger Picture” to the Bail Project, the National Association of Black Journalists, and Breonna Taylor’s legal fund

Photo: Matthew Geovany Lil Baby is stepping up to the mic in a new way. In his new song, “The Bigger Picture,” the 25-year-old rapper shares his experiences with racism, police brutality, and now activism. Opening with snippets from news reports, you can hear the anxiety in Lil Baby quick flow, as he weaves imagery of the recent protests against racial injustice in his hometown of Atlanta with his own complicated feelings about violence.

.youtube[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/youtube/instances/ckbcf858x00463g68nc83w4h9@published"].border-top:before { content: 'Watch'; } The rapper already walked the walked when he protested alongside Atlanta city councilman Antonio Brown. “They trainin’ officers to kill us / They shootin’ protesters with these rubber bullets / They regular people I know that they feel it / These scars too deep to heal us,” he raps in the third verse.

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