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- Yo, check it
- 1 for Charlie Hustle, 2 for Steady Rock
- 3 for the forthcoming live future shock
- It's 5 dimensions, 6 senses
- 7 firmaments of heaven and hell, 8 million stories to tell
- 9 planets faithfully keep in orbit with the probable 10th
- The universe expands length
- The body of my text possess extra strength
- Power lift the powerless up out of this towering inferno
- My ink so hot it burn through the journal
- I'm blacker than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle
- Hip Hop passed all your tall social hurdles
- Like the nationwide project 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 ch ching, cats get the "cha pow!" You dead now
- Killing fields need blood to graze the cash cow
- It's a numbers game, but shit don't add up somehow
- Like I got 16 to 32 bars to rock it
- But only 15% of profits ever see my pockets like
- 69 billion in the last 20 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
- 16 ounces to a pound, 20 more to a ki
- A 5 minute sentence hearing and you're no longer free
- 40% 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, cause you in the Terrordome
- Full of hard niggas, large niggas, dice tumblers
- Young teens and prison greens facing 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 whipping motherfuckers' ass
- You want to know how to rhyme you better learn how to add
- It's mathematics
- Yo, it's 1 universal law but 2 sides to every story
- 3 strikes and you biddin' for life, mandatory
- 4 MCs murdered in the last 4 years
- I ain't trying to be the 5th when the millennium is here
- Yo it's 6 million ways to die, from the 7 deadly thrills
- 8 year olds getting found with 9mils
- It's 10 PM, where your seeds at? What's the deal?
- He on the hill pumping krills to keep they bellies filled
- Light in the ass with heavy steel, sights on the pretty shit in life
- Young soldiers trying to earn their next stripe
- When the average minimum wage is $5.15
- You best believe you've got to find a new grind to get cream
- The white unemployment rate is nearly more than triple for black
- Some front liners got their gun in your back
- Bubbling 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 living
- Join the other 5 million under state supervision
- This is business: no faces, just lines and statistics
- From your phone, your Zip Code to SSI digits
- The system break man, child, and women into figures
- 2 columns for "who is" and "who ain't niggas"
- Numbers is hard and 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 million other straws underneath it
- It's all mathematics (math)
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