Mathematics chords by Mos Def
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Verse 1
(D major) (G major) (D major)
(E flat major) (D major) (C sharp major) (G major)
Bucka, bucka, bucka, bucka, bucka, bucka
Ha ha (E flat major) (D major)
You know the (C sharp major) deal (G major)
It's just me, yo (E flat major)
(D major) Beats (C sharp major) by Su- Primo for all of my people, (G major)
Negros and (E flat major) (D major) Latinos
And even the gringos
(C sharp major)
Verse 2
(G major) Yo, check (E flat major) it one for Charlie (D major) Hustle,
two for Steady (C sharp major) Rock
Three for (G major) the forth- coming
live future shock
(E flat major) It's five dimen (D major) sions, six senses
(C sharp major) Seven firmaments of Heaven (G major) to Hell,
eight million (D major) stories to tell
(E flat major) Nine (D major) planets faithfully keep (C sharp major) in orbit
With the (G major) probable tenth,
the universe expand (F sharp major) s length
(D major) The body of my text posses
extra strength
Power (C sharp major) - lift the powerless up,
(G major) out of this, towering (E flat major) in ferno
(D major) My ink so hot it burn through
the (C sharp major) journal
(G major) I'm blacker than midnight
on Broadway and Myrtle
(E flat major) Hip- hop past (D major) all your tall social hurdles
Like (G major) the nationwide projects,
prison- industry (D major) complex
Working class poor better
keep your alarm set
Streets too (G major) loud to ever hear freedom (F sharp major) ring
Say (E flat major) evacuate your (D major) sleep,
it's dangerous to dream
For ch- (C sharp major) ching cats get they cha- (D major)
paow, you dead (G major) now
Killing (E flat major) fields need (D major) blood to graze
the cash cow
It's a number game,
(G major) but shit don't add up somehow
(D major) Like I (E flat major) got,
six (D major) teen to thirty- two bars to rock it
But only fifteen per (G major) cent of profits,
ever see my pockets (E flat major) like
Sixty- nine (D major) billion in (C sharp major) the last twenty years
Spent (G major) on national defense
but folks still live in fear like
(E flat major) Nearly half (D major) of America's largest
cities (C sharp major) is one- quarter black
That's why they gave (D major) Rick
y Ross all the (G major) crack
Six (E flat major) teen ounces to a pound,
twenty (D major) more to a key
A five minute sentence (G major) hearing and
you no longer free
(E flat major) Forty percent of (D major) Americans
own a cell (C sharp major) phone
So they (G major) can hear,
everything that you say when you ain't home
I guess, (E flat major) Michael Jack (D major) son was right,
you are not (C sharp major) alone
Rock (G major) your hardhat black
'cause you in the Terrordome
Full (D major) of hard niggas, large niggas,
(C sharp major) dice tumblers
Young teens and pris (D major) on greens
fa (G major) cing life num (E flat major) bers
Crack (D major) mothers,
crack babies (C sharp major) and AIDS patients
Young bloods (G major) can't spell but they could
rock you (E flat major) at PlayStation
This new (D major) math is whipping
motherfuckers' ass
You wanna know how to (G major) rhyme
you better learn how to add
It's math (E flat major) ematics (D major)
(The Mighty Mos (C sharp major)
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Verse 3
(D major) Def)
(It's simple (G major) mathematics)
(Check it (E flat major) out)
(G major) (I revolve around (C sharp major) science)
(What are we talking (D major) (E flat major)
(D major) about (C sharp major) here?)
Verse 4
(The Mighty Mos Def) (It's simple (C sharp major)
mathematics)
(Check it (G major) out)
(I revolve around (E flat major) science)
(What are we (G major) talking about
here?)
Verse 5
(Do your math, (G major)
(D major)
do your math)
(One, t- t- two, three four)
(What are we (G major) talking about here?)
Yo, (D major) it's one
Verse 6
(E flat major) univer (D major) sal law
but two sides to every (C sharp major) story
Three (G major) strikes and you biddin' for life,
mandatory
(E flat major) Four (D major) MC's murdered in the last four (C sharp major) years
I (D major) ain't trying to be (G major) the fifth
one, the millennium is here
Yo, (E flat major) it's six million (D major) ways to die (C sharp major) from
the seven deadly thrills
(G major) Eight- year olds getting
found with 9 mill's
(E flat major) It's ten P.M.,
(D major) where your seeds at? What's (C sharp major) the deal?
He on the hill pumpin' krills to
keep they bellies (D major) filled
Light (E flat major) in the ass (D major) with heavy steel,
sights on (C sharp major) the pretty shit (D major) in life
(G major) Young soldiers trying to earn
they next (D major) stripe
When the average minimum
wage is (C sharp major) $5.15
You best (D major) believe you gotta (G major) find a new
ground to get (D major) C.R.E.A.M
The white (E flat major) unemploy (D major) ment rate is nearly
more than (C sharp major) triple for black
So front (G major) liners got they gun in your back
Bub (D major) bling crack,
jewel theft and robbery (C sharp major) to combat poverty
And end up in the (D major) global jail economy
(E flat major) Stiffer stipu (D major) lations attached
to each sentence
Budget (G major) cutbacks but increased
police presence
(E flat major) And even if (D major) you get out of prison still (C sharp major) living
Join (D major) the other five (G major) million
under state supervision
This (E flat major) is business,
(D major) no faces just lines and statistics
From your phone, your (G major) zip code,
to (D major) SSI digits
The system break man,
child and women into (C sharp major) figures
Two columns for who is (D major)
and who ain't niggas
(E flat major) Numbers is hard (D major) and real and
they never have feelings
But you push too (G major) hard,
even numbers got limits
(E flat major) Why did one straw (D major) break the camel's
back? Here's the secret
The million other (G major) straws underneath it,
it's all math (E flat major) ematics (D major)
Verse 7
(The Mighty Mos (D major) Def)
(It's simple (G major) (D major) mathematics)
(Check it (E flat major) out)
(I revolve around (D major) (C sharp major) science)
(What are we talking (D major)
about (D major) here?)
Verse 8
(The Mighty Mos Def)
(It's simple (G major) mathematics)
(Check it out)
(I revolve around (D major) science)
(What are we (G major) talking
about here?)
(Mathematics)
(D major)
Mathematics
Mos Def
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