Mathematics-Mos Def

[00:00.00]Mathematics （学）-Mos Def [00:00.000] 作曲 : Dante Smith [00:03.250]Written by ：C Martin /D Smith [00:06.504]Bucka bucka bucka bucka bucka bucka haha [00:12.118]You know the deal [00:14.680]It's just me yo [00:16.687]Beats by Su-Primo for all of my people [00:19.333]Negroes and latinos [00:21.969]And even the gringos [00:25.81]Yo check it [00:26.44]One for Charlie Hustle 2for Steady Rock [00:28.514]3for the forthcoming live future shock [00:30.933]It's 5dimensions 6senses [00:33.135]7firmaments of heaven and hell [00:35.72]8Million Stories to tell [00:36.707]9planets faithfully keep in orbit with the probable tenth [00:39.653]The universe expands length [00:41.206]The body of my text possess extra strength [00:43.754]Power-lift the powerless up out of this towering inferno [00:46.936]My ink so hot it burn through the journal [00:48.910]I'm blacker than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle [00:51.495]Hip-Hop passed all your tall social hurdles [00:53.959]Like the nationwide project-prison-industry complex [00:56.848]Working-class poor better keep your alarm set [00:59.228]Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring [01:01.636]Say evacuate your sleep it's dangerous to dream [01:04.187]For ch-ching cats get the cha-pow [01:05.988]You dead now [01:06.825]Killing fields need blood to graze the cash cow [01:09.386]It's a numbers game but sh*t don't add up somehow [01:11.606]Like I got 16to 32bars to rock it [01:14.664]But only 15%of profits ever see my pockets like [01:17.577]69billion in the last 20years [01:19.667]Spent on national defense [01:20.736]But folks still live in fear like [01:22.395]Nearly half of America's largest cities is one-quarter black [01:25.426]That's why they gave Ricky Ross all the crack [01:27.322]16ounces to a pound 20more to a ki [01:29.845]A 5-minute sentence hearing and you're no longer free [01:32.525]40%of Americans own a cell phone [01:34.912]So they can hear [01:35.670]Everything that you say when you ain't home [01:37.479]I guess Michael Jackson was right [01:39.166]You are not alone [01:40.54]Rock your hardhat black cause you in the Terrordome [01:42.702]Full of hard niggas large niggas dice-tumblers [01:45.801]Young teens and prison greens facing life numbers [01:48.317]Crack mothers crack babies and AIDS patients [01:50.755]Young bloods can't spell [01:51.798]But they could rock you in PlayStation [01:53.441]This new math is whipping motherf**kers'a** [01:55.535]You want to know how to rhyme you better learn how to add [01:57.856]It's mathematics [01:59.326]The Mighty Mos Def [02:01.116]It's simple mathematics [02:02.437]Check it out [02:04.509]I revolve around science [02:06.135]What are we talking about here [02:09.951]The Mighty Mos Def [02:11.407]It's simple mathematics [02:12.612]Check it out [02:14.741]I revolve around science [02:16.373]What are we talking about here [02:20.218]Do your math do your math [02:24.00]1234 [02:26.696]What are we talking about here [02:28.239]Yo [02:28.695]It's one universal law but 2sides to every story [02:31.433]3strikes and you be in for life mandatory [02:34.149]4MC's murdered in the last 4years [02:36.564]I ain't trying to be the fifth one the millennium is here [02:39.106]Yo it's 6Million Ways to Die from the 7deadly thrills [02:42.295]8year olds getting found with 9mils [02:44.304]It's 10P.M.where your seeds at [02:46.147]What's the deal [02:46.804]He on the hill pumping krill to keep they belly filled [02:49.344]Light in the a**with heavy steel [02:51.27]Sights on the pretty sh*t in life [02:52.665]Young soldiers trying to earn their next stripe [02:54.486]When the average minimum wage is $5.15 [02:57.60]You best believe you've got to find a new grind to get cream [02:59.628]The white unemployment rate [03:01.54]It's nearly more than triple for black [03:02.746]Some front-liners got their gun in your back [03:04.755]Bubbling crack jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty [03:08.18]And end up in the global jail economy [03:10.112]Stiffer stipulations attached to each sentence [03:12.519]Budget cutbacks but increased police presence [03:15.121]And even if you get out of prison still living [03:17.521]Join the other 5million under state supervision [03:20.165]This is business no faces just lines and statistics [03:22.632]From your phone your zip code to S-S-I digits [03:25.262]The system break man child and women into figures [03:27.790]2columns for who is and who ain't niggas [03:30.479]Numbers is hard and real and they never have feelings [03:32.787]But you push too hard even numbers got limits [03:35.535]Why did one straw break the camel's back [03:37.462]Here's the secret [03:38.260]The million other straws underneath it [03:40.289]It's all mathematics math [03:42.102]The Mighty Mos Def [03:43.622]It's simple mathematics [03:44.901]Check it out [03:47.90]I revolve around science [03:48.721]What are we talking about here [03:52.234]The Mighty Mos Def [03:53.899]It's simple mathematics [03:55.292]Check it out 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