Lil Baby is no stranger to using her voice and music to raise awareness of the issues that have affected her personally. More recently, the 25-year-old rapper has shared his experiences with police brutality.
On Monday (July 20), Rolling Stone He published a cover story with rapper “The Bigger Picture,” in which he discussed his encounters with police brutality and how the criminal justice system is not configured to protect blacks.
“I have been a victim of police brutality,” he said. Rolling Stone. “I’ve been in prison where white officers control you. I’ve been in a court system where white judges give you a different time than they would give someone white.”
The Quality Control Records artist also explained an incident while in prison when officers grabbed him and beat him in a room without cameras. He went on to say that he is used to abusing at the hands of the police.
“There were times when I had a physical altercation with an officer, and then he grabbed me and took me to a room where there is no camera,” he said. “We have a physical altercation and I was left in a room for about an hour. I’m there screaming and screaming. I’m so used to it that we didn’t even consider it a big problem.”
During the ongoing civil unrest following the deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony McDade and other black people killed due to police brutality, Lil Baby has used her music to support the movement. The Atlanta native released “The Bigger Picture,” a protest hymn that addresses systemic racism, police brutality, and more, last month.
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