Booka-booka-booka-booka-booka-booka   Ha hah, you know the deal, it's just me Dog   Beats by su-primo for all of my people   Negroes and Latinos and even the Gringos      Yo, check it, one for Charlie Hustle, two for Steady Rock   Three for the fourth comin' live, future shock   It's five dimensions, six senses   Seven firmaments of heaven to hell, eight million stories to tell      Nine planets faithfully keep in orbit   With the probable tenth, the universe expands length   The body of my text possess extra strength   Power-liftin' powerless up, out of this towerin' inferno      My ink so hot, it burn through the journal   I'm blacker than midnight on broadway and myrtle   Hip-Hop past 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 cha-ching cats get tha cha-pow, who dead now      Killin' fields need blood to graze the cash cow   Some 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're 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 'coz you in the terrordome   Full of hard niggaz, large niggaz, 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 in playstation   This new math is whippin' motherfuckers ass   You wanna know how to rhyme you better learn how to add   It's mathematics      "The mighty Mos Def"   "It's simple mathematics"   "Check it out!"   "I revolve around science"   "What are we talking about here?"      "The mighty Mos Def"   "It's simple mathematics"   "Check it out!"   "I revolve around science"   "What are we talking about here?"      "Do your math"   "Do your math"   "One, t-t-two, three, four"   "What are we talking about here?"      Yo, it's one universal law but two sides to every story   Three strikes and you be in for life, mandatory   Four M.C's murdered in the last four years   I ain't tryin' to be the fifth one, the millennium is here      Yo it's six million ways to die, from the seven deadly thrills   Eight year olds gettin' found with nine mill's   It's ten p.m., where your seeds at? What's the deal?   He on the hill puffin' krill to keep their bellies filled      Light in the ass with heavy steel, sights on the pretty shit in life   Young soldiers tryin' to earn they next stripe   When the average minimum wage is five fifteen   You best believe you gotta find a new grind to get cream      The white unemployment rate is nearly more than triple for black   So frontliners got their gun in your back   Bubblin' crack, jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty   And end up in the global jail economy      Stiffer stipulations attached to each sentence   Budget cutbacks but increased police presence   And even if you get out of prison still livin'   Join the other five million under state supervision      This is business, no faces just lines and statistics   From your phone, your zip code, to S S I digits   The system break man, child and women into figures   Two columns for who is and who ain't niggaz      Numbers is hardly real and they never have feelings   But you push too hard, even numbers got limits   Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret   The're million other straws underneath it, it's all mathematics      "The mighty Mos Def"   "It's simple mathematics"   "Check it out!"   "I revolve around science"   "What are we talking about here?"      "The mighty Mos Def"   "It's simple mathematics"   "Check it out!"   "I revolve around science"   "What are we talking about here?"      Mathematics