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