Mathemtics Songtext

[Mos Def]Booka-booka-booka-booka-booka-bookaHa hahYou know the dealIt's just me yoBeats by Su-Primo for all of my peoples, negroes and latinosand even the gringosYo, check it one for Charlie Hustle, two for Steady RockThree for the fourth comin live, future shockIt's five dimensions, six sensesSeven firmaments of heaven to hell, 8 Million Stories to tellNine planets faithfully keep in orbitwith the probable tenth, the universe expands lengthThe body of my text posess extra strengthPower-liftin powerless up, out of this, towerin infernoMy ink so hot it burn through the journalI'm blacker than midnight on Broadway and MyrtleHip-Hop past all your tall social hurdleslike the nationwide projects, prison-industry complexBroken glass wall better keep your alarm setStreets too loud to ever hear freedom singSay evacuate your sleep, it's dangerous to dreambut you chain cats get they CHA-POW, who dead nowKillin fields need blood to graze the cash cowIt's a number game, but shit don't add up somehowLike I got, sixteen to thirty-two bars to rock itbut only 15% of profits, ever see my pockets likesixty-nine billion in the last twenty yearsspent on national defense but folks still live in fear likenearly half of America's largest cities is one-quarter blackThat's why they gave Ricky Ross all the crackSixteen ounces to a pound, twenty more to a kiA five minute sentence hearing and you no longer free40% of Americans own a cell phoneso they can hear, everything that you say when you ain't homeI guess, Michael Jackson was right, "You Are Not Alone"Rock your hardhat black cause you in the Terrordomefull of hard niggaz, large niggaz, dice tumblersYoung teens and prison greens facin life numbersCrack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patientsYoung bloods can't spell but they could rock you in PlayStationThis new math is whippin motherfuckers assYou wanna know how to rhyme you better learn how to addIt's mathematicsChorus: scratched by DJ Premier (repeat 2X) "The Mighty Mos Def.." "It's simple mathematics" -> Fat Joe "Check it out!" "I revolve around science.." "What are we talking about here?".. "Do your math" -> Erykah Badu (2X) .... "One.. t-t-two.. three, four" -> James Brown .... "What are we talking about here?" ..[Mos Def]Yo, it's one universal law but two sides to every storyThree strikes and you be in for life, manditoryFour MC's murdered in the last four yearsI ain't tryin to be the fifth one, the millenium is hereYo it's 6 Million Ways to Die, from the seven deadly thrillsEight-year olds gettin found with 9 mill'sIt's 10 P.M., where your seeds at?What's the dealHe on the hill puffin krill to keep they belly filledLight in the ass with heavy steel, sights on the pretty shit in lifeYoung soldiers tryin to earn they next stripeWhen the average minimum wage is $5.15You best believe you gotta find a new ground to get creamThe white unemployment rate, is nearly more than triple for blackso frontliners got they gun in your backBubblin crack, jewel theft and robbery to combat povertyand end up in the global jail economyStiffer stipulations attached to each sentenceBudget cutbacks but increased police presenceAnd even if you get out of prison still livinjoin the other five million under state supervisionThis is business, no faces just lines and statisticsfrom your phone, your zip code, to S-S-I digitsThe system break man child and women into figuresTwo columns for who is, and who ain't niggazNumbers is hardly real and they never have feelingsbut you push too hard, even numbers got limitsWhy did one straw break the camel's back?Here's the secret:the million other straws underneath it - it's all mathematicsChorus{closing scratch} "Mathematics.."