Mathematics Chords by Mos Def
- Key: E
- BPM: 94
- Capo: no capo
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MATHEMATICS CHORDS
[Start] [Intro] E Bookabookabookabookabookabooka Hahah A E You know ■ the deal A7 A It's ■ just me yo E A Beats by SuPrimo for all of my peoples negroes and latinos A And even the gringos [Verse] E Yo check it one for Charlie Hustle two for Steady Rock A7 Three for the fourth comin' live future shock E It's five dimensions six senses A A7 Seven firmaments of heaven to hell eight million stories to tell E Nine planets faithfully keep in orbit A7 With the probable tenth the universe expands length E The body of my text poses extra strength E Powerliftin' powerless up out of this towerin' inferno E My ink so hot it burn through the journal A I'm blacker than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle E7 Hiphop past all your tall social hurdles E A Like the nationwide projects prisonindustry complex E Broken glass wall better keep your alarm set A Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring E Say evacuate your sleep it's dangerous to dream E But you chain cats get they chapow who dead now E Killin' fields need blood to graze the cash cow A It's a number game but shit don't add up somehow E Like I got sixteen to thirtytwo bars to rock it A7 But only fifteen percent of profits ever see my pockets like E A7 Sixtynine billion in the last twenty years spent on national defense A7 But folks still live in fear like E Nearly half of America's largest cities is onequarter black E That's why they gave Ricky Ross all the crack E Sixteen ounces to a pound twenty more to a ki A7 A fiveminute sentence hearing and you no longer free E Forty% of Americans own a cell phone A7 So they can hear everything that you say when you ain't home E I guess Michael Jackson was right You Are Not Alone A Rock your hardhat black 'cause you in the Terrordome E Full of hard niggas large niggas dice tumblers E Young teens and prison greens facin' life numbers A7 Crack mothers crack babies and AIDS patients A7 Young bloods can't spell but they could rock you in PlayStation E This new math is whippin' motherfuckers ass A You wanna know how to rhyme you better learn how to add A It's mathematics E The Mighty Mos Def A7 It's simple mathematics Gb7 ■ Check it out Gb7 I revolve around science Gb7 What are we talking about here [Chorus] E The Mighty Mos Def A It's simple mathematics A Check it out Gb7 I revolve around science A What are we talking about here A Do your math Do your math Db One tttwo three four Db What are we talking about here [Verse] E Yo it's one universal law but two sides to every story A Three strikes and you be in for life manditory E Four MCs murdered in the last four years A I ain't tryin' to be the fifth one the millennium is here E A Yo it's six million ways to die from the seven deadly thrills A Eightyear olds gettin' found with nine mill's A It's ten pm where your seeds at What's the deal A He on the hill puffin' krill to keep they belly filled E Light in the ass with heavy steel sights on the pretty shit in life A Young soldiers tryin' to earn they next stripe E When the average minimum wage is five point one five A You best believe you gotta find a new grind to get cream E A The white unemployment rate is nearly more than triple for black A7 So frontliners got they gun in your back E Bubblin' crack jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty E And end up in the global jail economy E Stiffer stipulations attached to each sentence A7 Budget cutbacks but increased police presence E And even if you get out of prison still livin' A7 Join the other five million under state supervision E This is business no faces just lines and statistics A From your phone your zip code to SSI digits E The system break man child and women into figures E Two columns for who is and who ain't niggaz E Numbers is hardly real and they never have feelings A But you push too hard even numbers got limits E Why did one straw break the camel's back Here's the secret A7 Gb7 The million other straws underneath it it's all mathematics ■ A Gb7 The Mighty Mos ■ Def [End] E A7 It's simple ■ mathematics Gb7 Check it out A E I revolve around science E What are we talking about here N.C. The Mighty Mos Def N.C. It's simple mathematics