
Why Biig Piig’s ‘Bubblegum’ is the bridge to ‘11:11’
Biig Piig’s 2023 seven-track mixtape turned a prolific writing spell into the crucial stretch between her lo-fi beginnings and the bigger pop canvas of debut album ‘11:11’.
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D'Angelo and producer DJ Premier built 'Devil's Pie' as a moral reckoning wrapped in aggression. The track anchors itself on a hard-hitting drum and snare combination, its production bearing the influence of Premier and J Dilla's approach to rhythm. D'Angelo's lyrics catalogue the appetites that drive people toward compromise: materialism, greed, lust, jealousy, the hunger for status and money. The song frames these desires as a shared human weakness, a line we all stand in, rather than condemning from outside. What gives the track its force is the tension between its musical directness and the philosophical weight of its subject. D'Angelo doesn't preach; he confesses. He acknowledges his own complicity in the systems he describes, asking who he is to judge when he feels the pull of the same temptations. The chorus returns again and again to the image of appetite and excess, each repetition tightening the knot between desire and damnation. It's a song about knowing better and doing it anyway, about the gap between understanding and escape.
"Devil's Pie" is a track by D'Angelo, from the album Voodoo, released 31st October 1998. Full lyrics are available below.
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