(So sorry about the late post people. I have a real excuse this time though. The combination of Blogger acting up and the internet in my apartment sucking led to the delay of this post. It was honestly ready last Tuesday.)
If you know me, or actually took the time to read the little "about me" part of the welcome section of this blog, you know that I hate math. I don't hate math for the sake of hating math, though. I hate it because it hates me; we just don't go well together. But of course, leave it to Mos Def/Yasiin Bey to get me to love his kind of Mathematics. Off his classic album Black on Both Sides, "Mathematics" is one of the prime examples of how complicated and intricate a true lyricists lines can be. I could get into how amazing and unique Mos Def's word play in this song is, but that's only half the reason why I posted this as today's song of the day. As I was listening to this song on the subway ride home from practice, I paid close enough attention to the small inserts of a recognizable sample at ____ . Turns out it's from Erykah Badu's "On and On" off her classic album Baduizsm. But of course the madness doesn't stop there. Turns out Badu's sample appears at the same time in "Mathematics" as it does in the original song: 2:20 exactly. Check it out -- I'm not even lying.
Some people think that the timing is probably a coincidence, right? I highly seriously doubt that. There is literally no way that it is a coincidence. I refuse to believe it because it's just not true and if there comes a time where someone wants to play the devil's advocate to my stance, I have no problem doing some research to investigate in the name of good music.
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