Mathematics (Jayceeoh Rmx) chords by Mos Def, Gang Starr
Verse 1
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Bucka, bucka, bucka,
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bucka, bucka, bucka
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Ha ha
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You know the deal
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This is me, dog
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Beats by Supremo for all of my people
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Negroes and Latinos
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And even the gringos
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Yo, check it, one for Charlie Hustle
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Two for Steady Rock
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Three for the fourth,
comin' live, future shock
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It's five dimensions, six senses
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Seven from immense, a heaven to hell
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Eight million stories to tell
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Nine planets faithfully keepin' orbit
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With the probable tense,
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the universe expands length
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The body of my text possess
extra strength
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Power lifted, powerless, up outta this
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Towering in fernal, my aim so high
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they burn through the journal
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I'm blacker than midnight on Broadway,
a myrtle
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Hip -hop past all your tall social hurdles
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Like the nationwide projects,
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prison industry complex
Working class poor,
better keep your alarm set
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Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring
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Say evacuate to sleep,
it's dangerous to dream
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But your chain cats can't
take your breath
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You dead now,
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killing fields need blood
Degrees to cash cow
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Some numbers game
but shit don't add up somehow
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Like I got 16 to 32 balls to rock it
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But only 15 % of profits
ever see my pockets
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Like 69 billion in the last 20 years
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Spent on national defense
but folks still live in fear
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Like nearly half of America's
largest cities
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is one quarter black
That's why they gave the
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girls all the crap
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Sixteen ounces to a pound,
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twenty more to a key
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A five -minute sentence, hearing it,
you no longer free
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Forty percent of Americans
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own a cell phone
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So they can hear everything that you say
when you ain't home
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I guess Michael Jackson was right,
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you are not alone
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Rock your heart,
have black as you in the pterodon
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Full of hard niggas, large niggas,
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dice tumblers
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Young teens in prison greens
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placing life numbers
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Crack mothers, crack babies,
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and maze patients
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Young bloods can't spell,
but they can rock you a PlayStation
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This new math is with
my motherfuckers ass
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You wanna know how to rhyme?
You better learn how to add
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It's mathematics
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Mighty most devil
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It's simple mathematics,
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it out I revolve around science
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What are we talking about here?
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Mighty most devil
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It's simple mathematics,
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check it out
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I re volve around science
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What are we talking about here?
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Do your math
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It's one universal law,
but two sides to every story
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Three strikes and you bitten for life,
mandatory
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Four MC's murdered in the last four years
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I ain't trying to be the fifth
when the millennium is here
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There was six million ways to die
from the seven deadly thrills
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Eight year olds getting
found with nine mils
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It's 10pm where your C's at,
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what's the deal?
They on the hill pumping krills
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to keep their bellies filled
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Lighten the ass with heavy steel
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Sights on the pretty shit in life
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Young soldiers trying to earn
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their next strike
When the average minimum wage is 5 .15
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You best believe you gotta find
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a new grind to get cream
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The white unemployment rate
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is nearly more than triple for black
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So frontliners got their gun
in your back
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Bumbling crap, jewel theft and robbery
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To combat poverty
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and end up in the global jell economy
Different stipulations attached
to each sentence
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Budget cutbacks but increased
police presence
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And even if you get out
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of prison still living
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Join the other 5 million
under state supervision
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This is business, no faces,
just lines and statistics
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From your phone, your zip code,
the SSI digits
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The system break man,
channeling women in the figures
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Two columns for who is an
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d who ain't niggas
Numbers is hard and real
and they never have been as
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But you push too hard,
even numbers got limits
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Why did one straw break
the camel's back is the secret
There's a million other
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straws underneath it
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It's all mathematics
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Mighty Mo's devil
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It's simple mathematics
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Check it out
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I'm a walk around science,
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what are we talking about here?
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Mighty Moses Devil,
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it's simple mathematics,
check it out.
I'm a walk around science,
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what are we talking about
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here?
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Mathematics (Jayceeoh Rmx)
Mos Def, Gang Starr
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