Lyrical Breakdown of A Bigger Picture Called Free - Commentary - A Journey through Words and Rhymes

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A bigger picture called free Well, I actually look at this as like A spoken word, style of song I never done a song like this The beat was really Progressive and, and And different sounding and The syncopation in it and like It just sounded like you like Okay, like you really find it where the beat is But it-it just It made me think of this like I started thinking about what f- What freedom is And I, and I wrote, uh A verse Like slash, poem, stanza That was really A piece that was really dealing with like You can't bottle freedom You can't, like box freedom You can't, like say because somebody Has a hair like this then they are this way Or somebody is wearing this This outfit then they are this way, it's like And we all Fall victim to it at some point or another but I was just like, man, we breaking this laws down So we're getting in to the freedom aspect And then on the second verse, it was Something because I was going through an experience of Being a-a-a fake journalist I thought I was a journalist, I was doing this documentary, uhm Called America Divided and I was interviewing Michael Alexander who wrote, the new Jim Crow in different People in Chicago, dealing with mass incarceration So, I went to the Cook County Jail Which is one of the The roughest jails in-in the country And I went to the lock up and And then I just Started thinking about I want to write something from that perspective like Like how our Criminal justice system is not forgiven, is not Rehabilitating, is not like there to If you can make a mistake and commit a crime It hasn't been Served the people who committed crime to better them You know, it's abused and exploit it And I just wanted to I want to humanize in both verses Like humanize who we are No matter what caliber Just what the And definitely being black and brown people was just was like Thinking about that too And just say, man, we human beings so That was what you get, uhm In a bigger picture called free Kinda freeing your mind from From any restrictions or judgements you have on people And see it blessed with the hook And Bilal came and did something real Forward made me think of Funkadelic and Parliament and And there you have it, you got upright base, uhm This is dope This is dope (Next song)