Lyrics

[Intro] Bucka-bucka-bucka-bucka-bucka-bucka, haha You know the deal, it's just me, yo Beats by Su-Primo for all of my people, Negroes and Latinos And even gringos Yo, check it [Verse 1] One for Charlie Hustle, two for Steady Rock Three for the forthcomin' live future shock It's five dimensions, six senses Seven firmaments of Heaven and Hell Eight million stories to tell Nine planets faithfully keepin' orbit with a probable tenth The universe expands length The body of my text possess extra strength Power-lift the powerless up out of this towering inferno My ink so hot, it burn through the journal I'm Blacker than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle Hip-hop passed all your tall social hurdles Like the nationwide projects-prison-industry complex Working-class poor, better keep your alarm set Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring Say evacuate your sleep, it's dangerous to dream For ch-ching, cats get the cha-pow, you dead now Killing fields need blood to graze the cash cow It's a numbers game, but shit don't add up somehow Like I got sixteen to thirty-two bars to rock it But only fifteen percent of profits ever see my pockets Like sixty-nine billion in the last twenty years Spent on national defense, but folks still live in fear Like nearly half of America's largest cities is one-quarter Black That's why they gave Ricky Ross all the crack Sixteen ounces to a pound, twenty more to a ki A five minute sentence hearing and you no longer free Forty percent of Americans own a cell phone So they can hear everything that you say when you ain't home I guess Michael Jackson was right, you are not alone Rock your hardhat, Black, 'cause you in the Terrordome Full of hard niggas, large niggas, dice-tumblers Young teens and prison greens facin' life numbers Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients Young bloods can't spell, but they could rock you at PlayStation This new math is whippin' motherfuckers' ass You wanna know how to rhyme? You better learn how to add It's mathematics [Outro] The mighty Mos Def It's simple mathematics— check it out I revolve around science What are we talking about here?