I worry about rap music, math, race, and kids. This is because I care deeply about rap music. So I’m listening to Nas’s Affirmative Action, and in particular Foxy Brown’s verse where she breaks down the math of drug deal:
Thirty-two grams raw, chop it in half, get sixteen, double it times three
We got forty-eight, which mean a whole lot of cream
Divide the profit by four, subtract it by eight
We back to sixteen
A mathematical analysis of Ms. Brown’s lyrics —
32/2 = 16. Check.
16 * 3 = 48. Check.
48/4 = 12. Check.
12 - 8 = 16. O god.
And what makes this even more painful is that the name of the song is AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. Those that are against affirmative action say that students who are denied access to higher institutions of learning shouldn’t get in because they are unqualified and not because of their skin color.
Foxy, you’re basic addition and subtraction skills are not helping this cause.
Dope beat though.
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eleven0nine said:
what about the “double it times three” part? cuz then it would be 16*2*3 = 96, which would make the 48 wrong, but at the end you would end up back at 16
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