The telling of Baby’s early life is illuminating. It offers his lived experience as well as an insight into the historical background of oppression and inequality in the US to show how the rapper – a childhood “genius” who would ace exams even though he never showed up to class – would eventually be incarcerated by the age of 20. As his childhood friend Mohawke puts it: “Getting out of poverty is hard when you don’t know the best way.”Īfter being persuaded to leave the streets behind for a career in music (admitting that he never wanted to be a rapper, Baby notes: “I couldn’t go back to prison, I had to at least try ”), Baby’s rising fame feels like a product of both hard work and an ability to capture an essence in his bars that resonates with millions. “Most rappers are telling your story, your story is real,” Quality Control Music label head Coach K recalls telling him. Throughout Untrapped, Baby seems to take every new career milestone in his stride, and you get a sense that this slight nonchalance is down to the fact that his focus goes beyond music. The documentary illustrates how the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement were catalysts in Baby using his voice positively. “I had the biggest album in the world, but something felt empty. I had to look inwards,” he explains, as the film documents the making of his acclaimed police brutality protest song ‘The Bigger Picture’.īaby truly seems to see the bigger picture, too, always appearing grounded and humble despite his rocketing wealth and status. As journalist Charles Holmes says in the doc: “For Lil Baby, music got him out. ![]() ![]() The sad part is that there’s a million Lil Babies in America.” It’s this latter reason that Baby appears so focussed on giving back. “And I learned what is obvious to a child.And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.” -Penelope Cruz “All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood-all of them are true.It is a moment of pure ecstasy and satisfaction when you see a smile flicker on baby’s lips, just as they gently pass into a deep slumber.“I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.” -Vincent Van Gogh.They enjoy the present, which very few of us do.” -Jean De La Bruyere “Children have neither past nor future.You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.” -Anita Diamant “It’s a good thing babies don’t give you a lot of time to think.“What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.” -Benjamin Spock.“There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.” -Jared Padalecki.“Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.” -Tina Brown.For all the things my hands have held the best by far is you.“Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world.“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children.It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” -Elizabeth Stone “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time.
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