Live Feed - Cruce

• Mos Def - Mathematics
• Booka = bookie?
• Reference to gambling
• Heaven to Hell - reference to Christianity
• 7 is the "number of heaven"
• Increasing numbers
• Mathematics
• "40% of Americans own a cell phone."
• Statistics = mathematics
• "Seven deadly thrills"
• Sins = fun, cool
• "Bubblin crack"
• Reference to drug use which is frequently related to hip-hop and black culture.

• Talib Kweli - Hell
• Baptists are very similar to Catholics
• "His face is mine"
• Talib says that if he was created in God's image, than he logically must have the same face
• But he questions if this is a blasphemous thought
• God passed him on the way to church
• Passed him by

• Lauryn Hill - Motives and Thoughts
• Theology - robbing the poor
• Catholic church selling indulgences
• "Wishing all their problems were inside their head"
• "prescription meds" can solve everything! = common misconception
• "Check your motives and thoughts"

• Tupac - Changes
• The conditions of poverty lead to crime in the black community
• Crime --> prison
• The prison system is corrupt
• "Penitentiary's packed and it's filled with blacks"
• Drugs
• "Try to show another way but your staying in the dope game"
• Prison does nothing to effect poverty or attitude towards crime

• N.W.A - Express Yourself
• "Correctional facilities"
• Living prison because of the crime culture in the poor black community
• "Don't be another sequel"
• Don't imitate, be your own person
• "Kill where the hip hop starts"
• Rappers forget about the ghetto and the roots of hip hop in black culture.