Inspired by Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop,” Tenere and I decided to do a little impromptu rap about math on a Saturday morning, backed up by my laptop and a loaner Jambox.
Written by: Cate Scott Campbell / .: @campbellcate
Additional vocal stylings by: Tenere Williams / .: @tenerew
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Lyrics:
Hey Tenere, wanna do some math?
What what, what what……
3.14159
2653589
Se-ven 93238
4626433
I’m gonna multiply
Got no calculator in my pocket
I – I – I’m solvin’: lookin’ for an answer
Math is effing awesome.
Now, walk into my class like, “What up, you know I’m so hot”
I’m just pumped ’bout this test that I’m gonna rock
Clear plastic rims, I’m lookin’ so classy
That boys are like, “Shoot! How’d that chick get past me?”
Rollin’ in, hella deep, headin’ to my favorite seat,
Actin’ all cool, ‘cuz I know I’m ’bout to bring the heat
Write my name nice ‘n neat, get to work, never cheat
Probly shoulda slept, but that guy was IMing me (Yesssssssssss)
Well shoot, I got a ninety-nine percent! (Nailed it)
Added it, subtracted it, square-rooted the discriminant,
Turns out there’s no solution ‘cuz you can’t square-root a negative,
Messy and lazy, don’t be bland
I’m calculatin’, solvin’, and
Gettin’ my A’s and I’m hella happy got a 4-0
I’ma take your pencil now, I’ma take your pencil now,
No for real – mine just broke – can I have your pencil now? (Yup)
I got a problem set involving linear equations
I’ll solve by graphing, substitution, or elimination
You got a word problem? I’ll solve a word problem
I’ll solve a geometric proof then I’ll solve another one
Hello, hello, my 9’s and my 1-0’s
Avogadro ain’t got nothin’ on my numbers game
I could take some angles, draw ’em in like two secs
My math teacher would be like, “Aw, she found the vertex.”
I’m gonna multiply
Got no calculator in my pocket
I – I – I’m solving: lookin’ for an answer Math is effing awesome.
I’m gonna multiply
Got no calculator in my pocket
I – I – I’m solving: lookin’ for an answer Math is effing awesome.
Whatchu know ’bout rockin’ a two-step equation? Whatchu knowin’ about order of operations?
I’m pluggin’, I’m pluggin’, rearrangin’ then I simplify
One girl’s x that’s another girl’s y
Thank you Descartes for creating the Cartesian system
‘Cuz right now I’m plotting a prism
I’m in the math lab you can find me in the front row
I’m a I’m a genius ‘cuz I know the slope is zero
Your ones and your tens and your hundreds your thousands
I’ll put a numerator on it, no big deal, I’ll rock that motherfraction
Reciprocal? Ok, I’ll flip that motherfraction
Now the bottom’s on the top of that motherfraction
They be like, “You don’t use a calculator, are you insane?”
I’m like, “Yo, that’s twenty dollars for a fake brain.”
Casio edition for doing simple addition
Twenty dollars for a calculator when you got pencils and paper? (shoooot)
I call that a numerical cop out (shoooot)
I call that a symptom of a future drop out
For Calculus they’re cool though
I use my TI 84 Plus for derivatives and asymptotes
Time’s up, come take a walk to my next class
Iambic pentameter is guess what? All math
It’s all math
I’m gonna multiply
Got no calculator in my pocket
I – I – I’m solving: lookin’ for an answer Math is effing awesome.
I got a 4.0
I rock some decimals
I’ll graph that asymptote
In the quadrant down below
I got a 4.0
I rock some decimals
I’ll graph that asymptote
In the quadrant down below
(Is that your asymptote?)

