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Booka-booka-booka-booka-booka-booka |
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Ha hah, you know the deal, it's just me Dog |
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Beats by su-primo for all of my people |
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Negroes and Latinos and even the Gringos |
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Yo, check it, one for Charlie Hustle, two for Steady Rock |
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Three for the fourth comin' live, future shock |
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It's five dimensions, six senses |
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Seven firmaments of heaven to hell, eight million stories to tell |
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Nine planets faithfully keep in orbit |
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With the probable tenth, the universe expands length |
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The body of my text possess extra strength |
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Power-liftin' powerless up, out of this towerin' inferno |
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My ink so hot, it burn through the journal |
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I'm blacker than midnight on broadway and myrtle |
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Hip-Hop past all your tall social hurdles |
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Like the nationwide projects, prison-industry complex |
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Working class poor, better keep your alarm set |
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Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring |
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Say evacuate your sleep, it's dangerous to dream |
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For cha-ching cats get tha cha-pow, who dead now |
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Killin' fields need blood to graze the cash cow |
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Some numbers game, but shit don't add up somehow |
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Like I got, sixteen to thirty-two bars to rock it |
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But only fifteen percent of profits, ever see my pockets like |
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Sixty-nine billion in the last twenty years |
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Spent on national defense but folks still live in fear like |
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Nearly half of America's largest cities is one-quarter black |
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That's why they gave Ricky Ross all the crack |
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Sixteen ounces to a pound, twenty more to a Ki |
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A five minute sentence hearing and you're no longer free |
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Forty percent of Americans own a cell phone |
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So they can hear everything that you say when you ain't home |
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I guess, Michael Jackson was right, 'You are not alone' |
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Rock your hardhat black 'coz you in the terrordome |
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Full of hard niggaz, large niggaz, dice tumblers |
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Young teens and prison greens facin' life numbers |
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Crack mothers, crack babies and aids patients |
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Young bloods can't spell but they could rock you in playstation |
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This new math is whippin' motherfuckers ass |
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You wanna know how to rhyme you better learn how to add |
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It's mathematics |
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"The mighty Mos Def" |
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"It's simple mathematics" |
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"Check it out!" |
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"I revolve around science" |
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"What are we talking about here?" |
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"The mighty Mos Def" |
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"It's simple mathematics" |
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"Check it out!" |
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"I revolve around science" |
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"What are we talking about here?" |
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"Do your math" |
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"Do your math" |
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"One, t-t-two, three, four" |
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"What are we talking about here?" |
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Yo, it's one universal law but two sides to every story |
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Three strikes and you be in for life, mandatory |
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Four M.C's murdered in the last four years |
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I ain't tryin' to be the fifth one, the millennium is here |
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Yo it's six million ways to die, from the seven deadly thrills |
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Eight year olds gettin' found with nine mill's |
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It's ten p.m., where your seeds at? What's the deal? |
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He on the hill puffin' krill to keep their bellies filled |
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Light in the ass with heavy steel, sights on the pretty shit in life |
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Young soldiers tryin' to earn they next stripe |
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When the average minimum wage is five fifteen |
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You best believe you gotta find a new grind to get cream |
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The white unemployment rate is nearly more than triple for black |
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So frontliners got their gun in your back |
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Bubblin' crack, jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty |
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And end up in the global jail economy |
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Stiffer stipulations attached to each sentence |
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Budget cutbacks but increased police presence |
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And even if you get out of prison still livin' |
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Join the other five million under state supervision |
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This is business, no faces just lines and statistics |
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From your phone, your zip code, to S S I digits |
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The system break man, child and women into figures |
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Two columns for who is and who ain't niggaz |
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Numbers is hardly real and they never have feelings |
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But you push too hard, even numbers got limits |
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Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret |
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The're million other straws underneath it, it's all mathematics |
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"The mighty Mos Def" |
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"It's simple mathematics" |
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"Check it out!" |
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"I revolve around science" |
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"What are we talking about here?" |
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"The mighty Mos Def" |
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"It's simple mathematics" |
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"Check it out!" |
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"I revolve around science" |
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"What are we talking about here?" |
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Mathematics |
