Mathematics (Dirty) - Mos Def.mp3

[00:00.00] 作曲 : Dante Smith
[00:05.93]Booka-booka-booka-booka-booka-booka
[00:08.28]Ha hah, you know the deal, it's just me Dog
[00:16.08]Beats by su-primo for all of my people
[00:18.96]Negroes and Latinos and even the Gringos
[00:24.66]Yo, check it, one for Charlie Hustle, two for Steady Rock
[00:28.32]Three for the fourth comin' live, future shock
[00:30.72]It's five dimensions, six senses
[00:32.73]Seven firmaments of heaven to hell, eight million stories to tell
[00:36.33]Nine planets faithfully keep in orbit
[00:38.25]With the probable tenth, the universe expands length
[00:40.92]The body of my text possess extra strength
[00:43.41]Power-liftin' powerless up, out of this towerin' inferno
[00:46.74]My ink so hot, it burn through the journal
[00:48.69]I'm blacker than midnight on broadway and myrtle
[00:51.24]Hip-Hop past all your tall social hurdles
[00:53.70]Like the nationwide projects, prison-industry complex
[00:56.61]Working class poor, better keep your alarm set
[00:59.01]Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring
[01:01.29]Say evacuate your sleep, it's dangerous to dream
[01:03.93]For cha-ching cats get tha cha-pow, who dead now
[01:06.45]Killin' fields need blood to graze the cash cow
[01:09.21]Some numbers game, but shit don't add up somehow
[01:11.40]Like I got, sixteen to thirty-two bars to rock it
[01:14.25]But only fifteen percent of profits, ever see my pockets like
[01:17.13]Sixty-nine billion in the last twenty years
[01:19.32]Spent on national defense but folks still live in fear like
[01:22.17]Nearly half of America's largest cities is one-quarter black
[01:25.11]That's why they gave Ricky Ross all the crack
[01:27.00]Sixteen ounces to a pound, twenty more to a Ki
[01:29.55]A five minute sentence hearing and you're no longer free
[01:32.25]Forty percent of Americans own a cell phone
[01:34.62]So they can hear everything that you say when you ain't home
[01:37.23]I guess, Michael Jackson was right, 'You are not alone'
[01:39.87]Rock your hardhat black 'coz you in the terrordome
[01:42.42]Full of hard niggas, large niggas, dice tumblers
[01:45.63]Young teens and prison greens facin' life numbers
[01:48.18]Crack mothers, crack babies and aids patients
[01:50.58]Young bloods can't spell but they could rock you in playstation
[01:53.25]This new math is whippin' mother****ers ass
[01:55.26]You wanna know how to rhyme you better learn how to add
[01:57.72]It's mathematics
[01:59.28]"The mighty Mos Def"
[02:00.33]" It's simple mathematics "
[02:02.13]"Check it out!"
[02:03.90]" I revolve around science"
[02:05.70]" What are we talking about here?"
[02:09.03]" The mighty Mos Def"
[02:11.10]"It's simple mathematics "
[02:12.42]"Check it out!"
[02:14.16]" I revolve around science "
[02:16.08]"What are we talking about here?"
[02:19.77]"Do your math "
[02:22.35]"Do your math "
[02:23.73]"One, t-t-two, three, four"
[02:26.34]"What are we talking about here?"
[02:27.96]Yo, it's one universal law but two sides to every story
[02:31.29]Three strikes and you be in for life, mandatory
[02:33.87]Four M.C's murdered in the last four years
[02:36.39]I ain't tryin' to be the fifth one, the millennium is here
[02:38.91]Yo it's six million ways to die, from the seven deadly thrills
[02:42.24]Eight year olds gettin' found with nine mill's
[02:44.22]It's ten p.m., where your seeds at? What's the deal?
[02:46.59]He on the hill puffin' krill to keep their bellies filled
[02:49.23]Light in the ass with heavy steel, sights on the pretty shit in life
[02:52.47]Young soldiers tryin' to earn they next stripe
[02:54.27]When the average minimum wage is five fifteen
[02:56.82]You best believe you gotta find a new grind to get cream
[02:59.40]The white unemployment rate is nearly more than triple for black
[03:02.49]So frontliners got their gun in your back
[03:04.56]Bubblin' crack, jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty
[03:07.98]And end up in the global jail economy
[03:09.93]Stiffer stipulations attached to each sentence
[03:12.54]Budget cutbacks but increased police presence
[03:15.09]And even if you get out of prison still livin'
[03:17.37]Join the other five million under state supervision
[03:19.98]This is business, no faces just lines and statistics
[03:22.56]From your phone, your zip code, to S S I digits
[03:25.26]The system break man, child and women into figures
[03:27.72]Mos Def - Mathematics (Dirty) - Ms. Fat Booty / Mathematics - Two columns for who is and who ain't shit
[03:30.48]Numbers is hardly real and they never have feelings
[03:32.79]But you push too hard, even numbers got limits
[03:35.46]Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret
[03:38.16]The're million other straws underneath it, it's all mathematics
[03:41.61]" The mighty Mos Def"
[03:43.38]" It's simple mathematics"
[03:44.82]"Check it out!"
[03:46.41]" I revolve around science "
[03:48.51]"What are we talking about here?"
[03:51.39]" The mighty Mos Def"
[03:53.34]" It's simple mathematics "
[03:55.08]"Check it out!"
[03:57.18]"I revolve around science"
[03:58.65]" What are we talking about here?"
[04:03.90]Mathematics