Key: E major
Verse 1
A
D
A
Bb
A
G#
D
Bucka, bucka, bucka, bucka, bucka, bucka
Bb
A
Ha ha
G#
D
You know the deal
A
G#
D
Beats by Su- Primo for all of my people,
Bb
A
Negros and Latinos
And even the gringos
G#
Verse 2
D
Bb
A
Yo, check it one for Charlie Hustle,
live future shock
Bb
A
It's five dimensions, six senses
G#
D
Seven firmaments of Heaven to Hell,
Bb
A
G#
Nine planets faithfully keep in orbit
extra strength
D
Bb
out of this, towering in ferno
on Broadway and Myrtle
Bb
A
Hip- hop past all your tall social hurdles
Working class poor better
keep your alarm set
D
C#
Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring
Bb
A
Say evacuate your sleep,
it's dangerous to dream
G#
A
For ch- ching cats get they cha-
Bb
A
Killing fields need blood to graze
the cash cow
It's a number game,
A
Bb
Like I got,
A
G#
Sixty- nine billion in the last twenty years
but folks still live in fear like
Bb
A
Nearly half of America's largest
you no longer free
Bb
A
Forty percent of Americans
everything that you say when you ain't home
Bb
A
I guess, Michael Jackson was right,
'cause you in the Terrordome
D
Bb
facing life numbers
motherfuckers' ass
you better learn how to add
Bb
A
It's mathematics
Verse 3
D
G#
(I revolve around science)
A
Bb
(What are we talking
A
G#
about here?)
Verse 4
mathematics)
here?)
Verse 5
D
(Do your math,
A
do your math)
(One, t- t- two, three four)
Verse 6
Bb
A
universal law
mandatory
Bb
A
G#
Four MC's murdered in the last four years
A
D
I ain't trying to be the fifth
one, the millennium is here
Bb
A
G#
Yo, it's six million ways to die from
the seven deadly thrills
found with 9 mill's
A
G#
where your seeds at? What's the deal?
He on the hill pumpin' krills to
Bb
A
Light in the ass with heavy steel,
G#
A
sights on the pretty shit in life
When the average minimum
A
D
You best believe you gotta find a new
Bb
A
The white unemployment rate is nearly
G#
jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty
Bb
A
Stiffer stipulations attached
to each sentence
police presence
Bb
A
G#
And even if you get out of prison still living
A
D
Join the other five million
under state supervision
The system break man,
and who ain't niggas
Bb
A
Numbers is hard and real and
they never have feelings
even numbers got limits
Bb
A
Why did one straw break the camel's
back? Here's the secret
Bb
A
it's all mathematics
Verse 7
D
A
(It's simple mathematics)
A
G#
(I revolve around science)
Verse 8
(The Mighty Mos Def)
(Check it out)
about here?)
(Mathematics)
A
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ChordsA D Bb G# C#
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