Mathematics Chords by Mos Def

[Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ Bucka, bucka, bucka, [Ab] bucka, bucka, bucka.
_ [C] _
_ _ [Eb] You know the devil.
[Ab] _ [C] This is me, yo.
[Eb] Beast by Supreme [Ab] mode for all of my people,
[C] Negroes and Latinos.
[Eb] And even the [F] gringos.
_ [C] Yo, check with Mama Charlie [Eb] Hustle.
Two for steady [Ab] ride.
Three for the fourth coming live, future [F] shock.
Five [Eb] dimensions, six senses.
[Ab] Seven from a mental heaven to hell.
Eight million [F] stories to tell.
Nine [Eb] planets faithfully keeping [Ab] orbit
with the probable test.
The [Db] universe expands [F] left.
The body of my [Eb] text possess extra strength.
Power [Ab] lifted, powerless up.
Out of this towering inferno.
Lighting so hot it burned through the journal.
I'm lacking in midnight on Broadway immortal.
[F] Hip hop [Eb] past all your tall social hurdles
like the [Ab] nation's wild ride.
This [Cm] prison industry complex.
Bring that [Eb] clapboard, better keep your [Ab] alarm set.
Streets too loud to ever [C] hear freedom ring.
Say it back in what you [Eb] sleep.
It's dangerous to [A] dream, but your chain catch.
[C] And they just want you dead [Cm] now.
Killing fields need blood to graze to cash [Ab] out.
Some numbers game, but shit don't add up somehow.
[Cm] Like I got [Eb] 16 to 32 bars [Ab] to rock it,
but only 15% of profits.
[C] Ever seen my pockets like [Eb] 69 billion in the last 20 [Ab] years.
Spent on national defense, but folks still live in [Fm] fear.
Like nearly half [Eb] of America's largest cities
is one quarter [Cm] black.
That's why they gave us these rolls all the crap.
16 ounces to a pound, 20 more to [Ab] a key.
A five minute sentence hearing it, you [C] know we're on the [F] free.
40% of [Eb] Americans own a cell [Ab] phone
so they can hear everything that you say
when you ain't [F] home.
I guess Michael Jackson [Eb] was right.
You are not [Ab] alone.
Rock your heart half black
as you in the territory full of hard [Eb] niggas.
Large niggas, dice [Ab] tumblers.
Young teens in prison greens facing life numbers.
Crack [Eb] mothers, crack babies, [Ab] slave patients.
Young blokes can't smell,
but [Db] they can rock you a PlayStation.
[G] Snoop Mathers with a motherfucker's ass.
You want [Ab] to know how to rhyme?
You better learn how to [Fm] add.
It's math, math.
[Ab] Mighty Mo's death breath.
It's simple mathematics.
Check it [Fm] out.
I will pop around science.
[Cm] What are we talking about here?
What's my, [Eb] my, my,
Mighty Mo's [Ab] death.
It's simple mathematics.
Check [G] it out.
[Ab] I will pop around science.
What are we talking about here?
[Fm] _ _ Kill your man.
[C] _ Kill your man.
One, two, three, [Cm] four.
What are we talking about here?
Yo, it's one universe [Eb] floor
but two sides of every [Ab] story.
Three strikes and you bitten for [C] life.
Man's story, [Fm] four-inch seat [Eb] murdered in the last four years.
I ain't [Ab] trying to be the fifth one.
The millennium is [Cm] here.
You're a six million ways to die.
From the [Ab] seven deadly grills.
Eight year olds getting found with nine [N] mils.
It's 10 PM where your C's at.
What's the deal?
They on the hill pumping grills.
The [C] jeep, they belly filled.
Lighting the ass with [Eb] heavy steel.
Sights on the [Ab] pretty shit and life.
Young soldiers trying to earn their next [C] strike.
When the average minimum [Eb] wage is 5.15,. [Ab] you best believe you got to find a new grind to get [F] clean. The white [Eb] unemployment rate, nearly more than [Ab] triple for black. Front line has got their gun in your back. Fumbling clap. Jew theft and [N] robbery to combat poverty and end up in the global jail economy. Stiffer [Eb] stipulations attached to each [Ab] sentence. Budget cutbacks would increase police presence. Even if you get out of prison, still living. Join the other five million under state [D] supervision. This is business. No [Eb] faces, just lines of [Ab] statistics. From your phone, your zip code, the SSI [Cm] digits. This is the break man, channeling women in the figures. Two columns for [C] who is and who ain't niggas. Numbers is harder [Eb] real than they never have [Dm] been. But you [Ab] push too hard, even numbers got [F] limits. Why did one straw [Eb] break the camel's back is the [Ab] secret. A million other straws underneath it. [G] It's all [Cm] mathematics. It's mighty most [Ab] definite. It's simple mathematics. Check it [Fm] out. I'm a barber around [Db] Sights. What are we [Ab] talking about? _ _ [Eb] It's mighty most [Ab] definite. It's simple mathematics. Check it out. I'm a barber around Sights. What are we talking about here? _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _
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