“You got the feeling that Lil Baby is loved across this city. I kept hearing people say, ‘He’s a real one,’ ” she says. “It meant a lot for people to see him there. It was at a point where I felt I needed to say. I just rap about my life all my songs are basically about me, Baby says. “It was a surreal feeling of being somewhere that felt like heavy, hallowed ground,” says Catriona Ni Aolain, Rolling Stone’s director of creative content. To Lil Baby, The Bigger Picture isn’t a protest song. As protests against police brutality continue across the country following the killing of George Floyd, the Atlanta rapper speaks out on The Bigger Picture. When Baby showed up in his all-white Rolls-Royce, he was reticent, but he ended up taking photos and even making a cameo in an amateur rap video. The spot has become a locus of grief and rage. It’s when people realized, ‘This guy has something to say.’ ”įor the cover image, photographer Diwang Valdez shot Lil Baby at locations across Atlanta, including on the street outside the Wendy’s in Peoplestown where Brooks was killed. Earlier on June 12, Lil Baby, the biggest star in Atlanta hip-hop right now, had released The Bigger Picture, a raised fist in the Black Lives Matter movement following the police killing of.
“ ‘The Bigger Picture’ is when everybody caught on to the fact that he has a consciousness people weren’t sure of before. Cole had been trying to sum up the moment, but Lil Baby really hit it,” says Holmes. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. Holmes was early to recognize Lil Baby’s potential and places him in a lineage of iconoclastic Atlanta rappers that started with Outkast and includes T.I., Young Jeezy, and Future. And it was at a point where I felt I needed to say something.” Lil Baby’s ‘The Bigger Picture’ Is The Most Streamed Protest Track After Death Of George Floyd Abigail Freeman Former Staff I'm an assistant editor at Forbes covering media and entertainment.
“I just rap about my life,” he tells Holmes. The track gets its power from real-life experience: Baby started out as a local drug dealer, experienced horrific police violence, and spent roughly two years in prison before turning to music in 2017. The song, which has been streamed more than 100 million times, has become a defining commentary on the Black Lives Matter movement, and catapulted Baby to a new level of fame. “But it also felt like the right time to visit Lil Baby.” The Atlanta rapper’s latest song, “ The Bigger Picture,” describes in urgent, personal rhymes the fear, pain, and “wicked” system of police brutality that led to this moment. “It was an intense time to be there,” says Holmes. “That’s where ‘F**k tha Police’ originally came from, that feeling of ‘fight the establishment and fight for us.When Charles Holmes traveled to Atlanta on June 27th t o interview Lil Baby for the August magazine cover story, the city was still raging over the police killing of Rayshard Brooks outside a local Wendy’s and reeling from a new escalation in coronavirus cases, with a record 10,284 reported across Georgia that week. For one, it captured the sentiment that many were. “We’ve become so divided as a nation, and when you get that very strong feeling of ‘our side against their side,’ you are going to get songs like this,” Bakula says. One of last year’s most powerful and impactful songs, Lil Baby’s The Bigger Picture became an instant fan-favorite upon its release. One of last year’s most powerful and impactful songs. The urgency in Lil Baby’s track to stand up for his community could become an anthem that stands the test of time, just like the older protest songs that still resonate. Lil Baby’s powerful single The Bigger Picture, easily one of 2020’s most powerful tracks, has been officially certified platinum. All have been featured on curated Black Lives Matter playlists across streaming platforms as listeners seek insight and catharsis from Black artists. Other releases include “I Can’t Breathe” by H.E.R., “2020 Riots: How Many Times” by Trey Songz and Keedron Bryant’s “I Just Wanna Live,” which went viral and landed the 12-year-old a record deal with Warner Records. Matthew Geovany /Courtesy of the artist Music is canonizing this moment in history at rapid speed. “The Bigger Picture” is one of more than a dozen protest songs released by Black artists in the month following Floyd’s death-a response of unprecedented proportion in the streaming era, according to Nielsen’s Bakula.Īfter Lil Baby’s hit, Meek Mill’s “Otherside of America” was the second most-consumed new protest song in June with almost 18 million streams, followed by Beyonce’s “Black Parade,” which surpassed 7.5 million streams in just six days. Lil Baby's 'The Bigger Picture' is a conscious trap anthem for the Black Lives Matter movement.
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