[00:00.000] 作曲 : Dante Smith
[00:00.00]Mathematics （学）-Mos Def
[00:03.250]Written by ：C Martin /D Smith
[00:06.504]Bucka bucka bucka bucka bucka bucka haha
[00:12.118]You know the deal
[00:14.680]It's just me yo
[00:16.687]Beats by Su-Primo for all of my people
[00:19.333]Negroes and latinos
[00:21.969]And even the gringos
[00:25.81]Yo check it
[00:26.44]One for Charlie Hustle 2for Steady Rock
[00:28.514]3for the forthcoming live future shock
[00:30.933]It's 5dimensions 6senses
[00:33.135]7firmaments of heaven and hell
[00:35.72]8Million Stories to tell
[00:36.707]9planets faithfully keep in orbit with the probable tenth
[00:39.653]The universe expands length
[00:41.206]The body of my text possess extra strength
[00:43.754]Power-lift the powerless up out of this towering inferno
[00:46.936]My ink so hot it burn through the journal
[00:48.910]I'm blacker than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle
[00:51.495]Hip-Hop passed all your tall social hurdles
[00:53.959]Like the nationwide project-prison-industry complex
[00:56.848]Working-class poor better keep your alarm set
[00:59.228]Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring
[01:01.636]Say evacuate your sleep it's dangerous to dream
[01:04.187]For ch-ching cats get the cha-pow
[01:05.988]You dead now
[01:06.825]Killing fields need blood to graze the cash cow
[01:09.386]It's a numbers game but sh*t don't add up somehow
[01:11.606]Like I got 16to 32bars to rock it
[01:14.664]But only 15%of profits ever see my pockets like
[01:17.577]69billion in the last 20years
[01:19.667]Spent on national defense
[01:20.736]But folks still live in fear like
[01:22.395]Nearly half of America's largest cities is one-quarter black
[01:25.426]That's why they gave Ricky Ross all the crack
[01:27.322]16ounces to a pound 20more to a ki
[01:29.845]A 5-minute sentence hearing and you're no longer free
[01:32.525]40%of Americans own a cell phone
[01:34.912]So they can hear
[01:35.670]Everything that you say when you ain't home
[01:37.479]I guess Michael Jackson was right
[01:39.166]You are not alone
[01:40.54]Rock your hardhat black cause you in the Terrordome
[01:42.702]Full of hard niggas large niggas dice-tumblers
[01:45.801]Young teens and prison greens facing life numbers
[01:48.317]Crack mothers crack babies and AIDS patients
[01:50.755]Young bloods can't spell
[01:51.798]But they could rock you in PlayStation
[01:53.441]This new math is whipping motherf**kers'a**
[01:55.535]You want to know how to rhyme you better learn how to add
[01:57.856]It's mathematics
[01:59.326]The Mighty Mos Def
[02:01.116]It's simple mathematics
[02:02.437]Check it out
[02:04.509]I revolve around science
[02:06.135]What are we talking about here
[02:09.951]The Mighty Mos Def
[02:11.407]It's simple mathematics
[02:12.612]Check it out
[02:14.741]I revolve around science
[02:16.373]What are we talking about here
[02:20.218]Do your math do your math
[02:24.00]1234
[02:26.696]What are we talking about here
[02:28.239]Yo
[02:28.695]It's one universal law but 2sides to every story
[02:31.433]3strikes and you be in for life mandatory
[02:34.149]4MC's murdered in the last 4years
[02:36.564]I ain't trying to be the fifth one the millennium is here
[02:39.106]Yo it's 6Million Ways to Die from the 7deadly thrills
[02:42.295]8year olds getting found with 9mils
[02:44.304]It's 10P.M.where your seeds at
[02:46.147]What's the deal
[02:46.804]He on the hill pumping krill to keep they belly filled
[02:49.344]Light in the a**with heavy steel
[02:51.27]Sights on the pretty sh*t in life
[02:52.665]Young soldiers trying to earn their next stripe
[02:54.486]When the average minimum wage is $5.15
[02:57.60]You best believe you've got to find a new grind to get cream
[02:59.628]The white unemployment rate
[03:01.54]It's nearly more than triple for black
[03:02.746]Some front-liners got their gun in your back
[03:04.755]Bubbling crack jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty
[03:08.18]And end up in the global jail economy
[03:10.112]Stiffer stipulations attached to each sentence
[03:12.519]Budget cutbacks but increased police presence
[03:15.121]And even if you get out of prison still living
[03:17.521]Join the other 5million under state supervision
[03:20.165]This is business no faces just lines and statistics
[03:22.632]From your phone your zip code to S-S-I digits
[03:25.262]The system break man child and women into figures
[03:27.790]2columns for who is and who ain't niggas
[03:30.479]Numbers is hard and real and they never have feelings
[03:32.787]But you push too hard even numbers got limits
[03:35.535]Why did one straw break the camel's back
[03:37.462]Here's the secret
[03:38.260]The million other straws underneath it
[03:40.289]It's all mathematics math
[03:42.102]The Mighty Mos Def
[03:43.622]It's simple mathematics
[03:44.901]Check it out
[03:47.90]I revolve around science
[03:48.721]What are we talking about here
[03:52.234]The Mighty Mos Def
[03:53.899]It's simple mathematics
[03:55.292]Check it out
[03:57.328]I revolve around science
[03:58.742]What are we talking about here
[04:04.171]Mathematics mathematics mathematics