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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.

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    SPEAKER UL BABY COMPOSED "THE BIGGER PICTURE" SHORTLY AFTER GEORGE FLGYD DIED. HE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN AN IMPOVERISHED ATLANTA NEIGHBORHOOD. IN THE SONG, HE DISCUSSES HIS GROWING-UP STRUGGLES AND WORRIES. HE ARGUES HOW BLACK COMMUNITIES ARE STILL STRUGGLING TODAY. AND HOW CHANGE IS HARMFUL TO SOCIETY AS A RESULT. IN THIS SONG. HE ADDRESSES CONCERNS THAT THE COUNTRY CONTINUES TO DEAL WITH. INCLUDING SYSTEMIC RACISM AND POLICE BRUTALITY.

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    UL BABY INTRODUCES A THEME THAT AIMS TO ILLUMINATE PEOPLE’S EYES, STATING THAT CORRUPTION HAS TAKEN OVER SOCIETY AND THAT PEOPLE MUST WORK TOGETHER TO REPAIR IT. HETHEN DISCUSSES TWO IMPORTANT ISSUES: POLICE BRUTALITY AND INSTITUTIONAL RACISM. “I AND IT CRAZY THAT THE POUCE WILL SHOOT YOU AND KNOW YOU'RE DEAO, BUT TELL YOU TO FREEZE," HE ADDS, "THEY KILLING US FOR NO REASON." UL BABY WANTS HIS AUDIENCE TO UNDERSTAND HOW SERIOUS AND DANGEROUS THIS SITUATION IS. HE DESIRES A DRAMATIC REACTION FROM HIS VIEWERS. HE WANTS TO FRIGHTEN THEM SO THEY CAN GENUINELY COMPREHEND WHATITS UKETO BE IN HISSHOES. HE ALSO CLAIMS THAT "EVERY COLORED PERSON AIN’T DUMB AND ALL WHITES NOT RACIST. I BE JUDGI NG BY THE MIND AND HEART." HE SAYS THIS TO EXPRESS HIS DISBELIEF IN RACIAL PREJUDICES, HE ADOS THAT MORE PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIKE THIS AND NOT ONLY JUDGE INDIVIDUALS BASED ON THEIR APPEARANCE. HE IMPUES THAT THIS IS WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR CHANGE. IN THE CHORUS OF THE SONG, UL BABY STATES "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 START HERE." HE DESCRIBES HOW INSTITUTIONAL RACISM PERSISTS IN OUR NATION AND IS DETERMINED TO OVERCOME THIS OBSTACLE. HESAYS THAT CHANGE WILL TAKE ALONG TIME, BUT THAT IT IS CRITCAL FOR EQUALITY AND THE OUAUTY OF UFE FOR EVERYONE. PURPOSE Bin 1 \Udience The Bigger Picture” was inspired by Lil Bab experience, but the outcry over Floyd’s death him the opportunity to speak on the problei plaguing Black communities hoping that pe across the nation would act upon a change BLH

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