A speaker criticizes rapper Birdman's plan to visit prisons, calling his claims to improve inmates' lives hypocritical. Birdman can't even stop his own house from being foreclosed, yet claims power he doesn't have. The speaker compares his empty promises to slave masters denying education to maintain control.
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Birdman to go visit his fellow prisoners. Lord knows there's a lot of people that went to prison under his care and watch. And for him to go in so cocky, so narcissistic, to be like, I'm sorry, I got the power, like he Vladimir Putin or Kim Jong-un, to make their lives different. But yet you're coming to visit them in a jail, right? You don't have no power. To get nobody out of jail. And you ain't got no power to empower them if they're asking for books. Like, that's how— ain't that how the slave masters did it? They didn't want us to read. They wanted us to rely on them as, you know, for our power, which is reading and writing and understanding what it is that they know. And for him to say that you think that a book is gonna help you. I'm like, Birdman ain't even got the power to save his house from foreclosure.