Mathematics
Mos Def

Booka-booka-booka-booka-booka-booka

Ha hah, you know the deal, it's just me Dog

Beats by su-primo for all of my people

Negroes and Latinos and even the Gringos


Yo, check it, one for Charlie Hustle, two for Steady Rock

Three for the fourth comin' live, future shock

It's five dimensions, six senses

Seven firmaments of heaven to hell, eight million stories to tell


Nine planets faithfully keep in orbit

With the probable tenth, the universe expands length

The body of my text possess extra strength

Power-liftin' powerless up, out of this towerin' inferno


My ink so hot, it burn through the journal

I'm blacker than midnight on broadway and myrtle

Hip-Hop past all your tall social hurdles

Like the nationwide projects, prison-industry complex


Working class poor, better keep your alarm set

Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring

Say evacuate your sleep, it's dangerous to dream

For cha-ching cats get tha cha-pow, who dead now


Killin' fields need blood to graze the cash cow

Some numbers game, but shit don't add up somehow

Like I got, sixteen to thirty-two bars to rock it

But only fifteen percent of profits, ever see my pockets like


Sixty-nine billion in the last twenty years

Spent on national defense but folks still live in fear like

Nearly half of America's largest cities is one-quarter black

That's why they gave Ricky Ross all the crack


Sixteen ounces to a pound, twenty more to a Ki

A five minute sentence hearing and you're no longer free

Forty percent of Americans own a cell phone

So they can hear everything that you say when you ain't home


I guess, Michael Jackson was right, 'You are not alone'

Rock your hardhat black 'coz you in the terrordome

Full of hard niggaz, large niggaz, dice tumblers

Young teens and prison greens facin' life numbers


Crack mothers, crack babies and aids patients

Young bloods can't spell but they could rock you in playstation

This new math is whippin' motherfuckers ass

You wanna know how to rhyme you better learn how to add

It's mathematics


The mighty Mos Def

It's simple mathematics

Check it out!

I revolve around science

What are we talking about here?


The mighty Mos Def

It's simple mathematics

Check it out!


I revolve around science

What are we talking about here?


Do your math

Do your math

One, t-t-two, three, four

What are we talking about here?


Yo, it's one universal law but two sides to every story

Three strikes and you be in for life, mandatory

Four M.C's murdered in the last four years

I ain't tryin' to be the fifth one, the millennium is here


Yo it's six million ways to die, from the seven deadly thrills

Eight year olds gettin' found with nine mill's

It's ten p.m., where your seeds at? What's the deal?

He on the hill puffin' krill to keep their bellies filled


Light in the ass with heavy steel, sights on the pretty shit in life

Young soldiers tryin' to earn they next stripe

When the average minimum wage is five fifteen

You best believe you gotta find a new grind to get cream


The white unemployment rate is nearly more than triple for black

So frontliners got their gun in your back

Bubblin' crack, jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty

And end up in the global jail economy


Stiffer stipulations attached to each sentence

Budget cutbacks but increased police presence

And even if you get out of prison still livin'

Join the other five million under state supervision


This is business, no faces just lines and statistics

From your phone, your zip code, to S S I digits

The system break man, child and women into figures

Two columns for who is and who ain't niggaz


Numbers is hardly real and they never have feelings

But you push too hard, even numbers got limits

Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret

The're million other straws underneath it, it's all mathematics


The mighty Mos Def

It's simple mathematics

Check it out!

I revolve around science

What are we talking about here?


The mighty Mos Def

It's simple mathematics

Check it out!

I revolve around science

What are we talking about here?


Mathematics


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