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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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