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The Bigger Picture

Analysis of Lil Baby's 'The Bigger Picture'—exploring speaker, purpose, and audience. Highlights themes of racial injustice, police brutality, and institutional racism following George Floyd's death. Powerful commentary on social change.

Daniel Miller
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The Bigger Picture - Page 1 preview imageSPEAKERUL BABY COMPOSED "THE BIGGER PICTURE" SHORTLYAFTER GEORGEFLGYD DIED. HE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN ANIMPOVERISHED ATLANTA NEIGHBORHOOD. IN THE SONG, HEDISCUSSES HIS GROWING-UP STRUGGLES AND WORRIES. HEARGUES HOW BLACK COMMUNITIES ARE STILL STRUGGLINGTODAY. AND HOW CHANGE IS HARMFUL TO SOCIETY AS ARESULT. IN THIS SONG. HE ADDRESSES CONCERNS THAT THECOUNTRY CONTINUES TO DEAL WITH. INCLUDING SYSTEMICRACISM AND POLICE BRUTALITY.
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The Bigger Picture - Page 2 preview imageUL BABY INTRODUCES A THEME THAT AIMS TO ILLUMINATE PEOPLE’S EYES, STATING THATCORRUPTION HAS TAKEN OVER SOCIETY AND THAT PEOPLE MUST WORK TOGETHER TO REPAIR IT.HETHEN DISCUSSES TWO IMPORTANT ISSUES: POLICE BRUTALITY AND INSTITUTIONAL RACISM. “IAND IT CRAZY THAT THE POUCE WILL SHOOT YOU AND KNOW YOU'RE DEAO, BUT TELL YOU TOFREEZE," HE ADDS, "THEYKILLINGUS FOR NO REASON." UL BABY WANTS HIS AUDIENCE TOUNDERSTAND HOW SERIOUS AND DANGEROUS THIS SITUATION IS. HE DESIRES A DRAMATICREACTION FROM HIS VIEWERS. HE WANTS TO FRIGHTEN THEM SO THEY CAN GENUINELYCOMPREHEND WHATITS UKETO BE IN HISSHOES. HE ALSO CLAIMSTHAT "EVERY COLOREDPERSON AIN’T DUMB AND ALL WHITES NOT RACIST. I BE JUDGING BY THE MIND AND HEART." HESAYS THIS TO EXPRESS HIS DISBELIEF IN RACIAL PREJUDICES, HE ADOS THAT MORE PEOPLESHOULD BE LIKE THIS AND NOT ONLY JUDGE INDIVIDUALS BASED ON THEIR APPEARANCE. HEIMPUES THAT THIS IS WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR CHANGE. INTHE CHORUS OF THE SONG, UL BABYSTATES "IT S BIGGER THAN BLACK ANO WHITE ITS A PROBLEM WITH THE WHOLE WAY OF LIFE.IT CAN T CHANGE OVERNIGHT. BUT WE MUST START SOMEWHERE MIGHT AS WELL GON STARTHERE." HE DESCRIBES HOW INSTITUTIONAL RACISM PERSISTS IN OUR NATION AND ISDETERMINEDTO OVERCOME THIS OBSTACLE. HESAYS THAT CHANGE WILL TAKE ALONG TIME,BUT THAT IT IS CRITCAL FOR EQUALITY AND THE OUAUTY OF UFEFOR EVERYONE.PURPOSEBin1 \UdienceThe Bigger Picture” was inspired by Lil Babexperience, but the outcry over Floyd’s deathhim the opportunity to speak on the probleiplaguing Black communities hoping that peacross the nation would act upon a changeBLH
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