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Mathematics chords by
Mos Def
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Verse 1
D
G
D

Eb
D
C#
G


Bucka, bucka, bucka, bucka, bucka, bucka
Eb
D

Ha ha
C#
G

You know the deal
Eb

It's just me, yo
D
C#
G

Beats by Su- Primo for all of my people,
Eb
D

Negros and Latinos

And even the gringos
C#
Verse 2
G
Eb
D

Yo, check it one for Charlie Hustle,
C#

two for Steady Rock
G

Three for the forth- coming

live future shock
Eb
D

It's five dimensions, six senses
C#
G

Seven firmaments of Heaven to Hell,
D

eight million stories to tell
Eb
D
C#

Nine planets faithfully keep in orbit
G

With the probable tenth,
F#

the universe expands length
D

The body of my text posses

extra strength
C#

Power- lift the powerless up,
G
Eb

out of this, towering in ferno
D

My ink so hot it burn through
C#

the journal
G

I'm blacker than midnight

on Broadway and Myrtle
Eb
D

Hip- hop past all your tall social hurdles
G

Like the nationwide projects,
D

prison- industry complex

Working class poor better

keep your alarm set
G
F#

Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring
Eb
D

Say evacuate your sleep,

it's dangerous to dream
C#
D

For ch- ching cats get they cha-
G

paow, you dead now
Eb
D

Killing fields need blood to graze

the cash cow

It's a number game,
G

but shit don't add up somehow
D
Eb

Like I got,
D

sixteen to thirty- two bars to rock it
G

But only fifteen percent of profits,
Eb

ever see my pockets like
D
C#

Sixty- nine billion in the last twenty years
G

Spent on national defense

but folks still live in fear like
Eb
D

Nearly half of America's largest
C#

cities is one- quarter black
D

That's why they gave Rick
G

y Ross all the crack
Eb

Sixteen ounces to a pound,
D

twenty more to a key
G

A five minute sentence hearing and

you no longer free
Eb
D

Forty percent of Americans
C#

own a cell phone
G

So they can hear,

everything that you say when you ain't home
Eb
D

I guess, Michael Jackson was right,
C#

you are not alone
G

Rock your hardhat black

'cause you in the Terrordome
D

Full of hard niggas, large niggas,
C#

dice tumblers
D

Young teens and prison greens
G
Eb

facing life numbers
D

Crack mothers,
C#

crack babies and AIDS patients
G

Young bloods can't spell but they could
Eb

rock you at PlayStation
D

This new math is whipping

motherfuckers' ass
G

You wanna know how to rhyme

you better learn how to add
Eb
D

It's mathematics
C#
(The Mighty Mos
Verse 3
D

Def)
G

(It's simple mathematics)
Eb

(Check it out)
G
C#

(I revolve around science)
D
Eb

(What are we talking
D
C#

about here?)
Verse 4
C#

(The Mighty Mos Def) (It's simple

mathematics)
G

(Check it out)
Eb

(I revolve around science)
G

(What are we talking about

here?)
Verse 5
G

(Do your math,
D


do your math)

(One, t- t- two, three four)
G

(What are we talking about here?)
D
Yo, it's one
Verse 6
Eb
D

universal law
C#

but two sides to every story
G

Three strikes and you biddin' for life,

mandatory
Eb
D
C#

Four MC's murdered in the last four years
D
G

I ain't trying to be the fifth

one, the millennium is here
Eb
D
C#

Yo, it's six million ways to die from

the seven deadly thrills
G

Eight- year olds getting

found with 9 mill's
Eb

It's ten P.M.,
D
C#

where your seeds at? What's the deal?

He on the hill pumpin' krills to
D

keep they bellies filled
Eb
D

Light in the ass with heavy steel,
C#
D

sights on the pretty shit in life
G

Young soldiers trying to earn
D

they next stripe

When the average minimum
C#

wage is $5.15
D
G

You best believe you gotta find a new
D

ground to get C.R.E.A.M
Eb
D

The white unemployment rate is nearly
C#

more than triple for black
G

So front liners got they gun in your back
D

Bubbling crack,
C#

jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty
D

And end up in the global jail economy
Eb
D

Stiffer stipulations attached

to each sentence
G

Budget cutbacks but increased

police presence
Eb
D
C#

And even if you get out of prison still living
D
G

Join the other five million

under state supervision
Eb

This is business,
D

no faces just lines and statistics
G

From your phone, your zip code,
D

to SSI digits

The system break man,
C#

child and women into figures
D

Two columns for who is

and who ain't niggas
Eb
D

Numbers is hard and real and

they never have feelings
G

But you push too hard,

even numbers got limits
Eb
D

Why did one straw break the camel's

back? Here's the secret
G

The million other straws underneath it,
Eb
D

it's all mathematics
Verse 7
D

(The Mighty Mos Def)
G
D

(It's simple mathematics)
Eb

(Check it out)
D
C#

(I revolve around science)
D

(What are we talking
D

about here?)
Verse 8

(The Mighty Mos Def)
G

(It's simple mathematics)

(Check it out)
D

(I revolve around science)
G

(What are we talking

about here?)

(Mathematics)
D


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Chords
  • D

  • G

  • Eb

    6
  • C#

    4
  • F#

    2

Capo: 2

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