Mathematics

Mathematics - Mos Def

Bucka-bucka-bucka-bucka-bucka-bucka

Haha

You know the deal it's just me yo

Beats by su-primo for all of my people

Negroes and Latinos

And even the gringos

Yo check it

1 for Charlie Hustle 2 for Steady Rock

3 for the forth-coming live future shock

It's 5 dimensions 6 senses

7 firmaments of heaven and hell

8 million stories to tell

9 planets faithfully keepin' orbit

With the probable 10th

The universe expands length

The body of my text possess extra strength

Power-lift the powerless up out of this towering inferno

My ink so hot it burn through the journal

I'm blacker than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle

Hip-hop passed 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 ch-ching cats get the cha-pow you dead now

Killing fields need blood to graze the cash cow

It's a numbers game but s**t don't add up somehow

Like I got 16 to 32 bars to rock it

But only 15 of profits ever see my pockets

Like 69 billion in the last 20 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

16 ounces to a pound 20 more to a ki

A 5 minute sentence hearing and you're no longer free

40 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

'Cause you in the Terrordome

Full of hard n***as large n***as dice-tumblers

Young teens and prison greens facing life numbers

Crack mothers crack babies

And aids patients

Young bloods can't spell but

They could rock you in play station

This new math is whipping motherf**kers' a*s

You want to 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