When I was in the third grade, my teacher gave me a copy of the cassette tape Multiplication Rap. So you can experience it yourself, I have tracked down a clip (however, it is not from my favorite track, “Everybody Dance and Multiply, Too (2x)”).

Everybody Multiply (6x)

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Pretty woefully out of date, huh? Well, click that little play button below to enter an all new realm of multiplication-related hip hop. We’re talking multiplying for the 21st century in my first original hip-hop song ever.

I present now to you, an original composition, entitled “Six Education.”

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I’m pretty sure that this is the first rap song to name drop any NPR personalities (I would love to be proven wrong on this one). 

Click the following link for the lyrics.

Lyrics:
Down the cement, my Converses runnin’
If the cops think they’ll catch me, they ain’t thinkin nothin’.
My record’s clean, they ain’t got —- on me,
Unless they decide to make mathematics a felony.
See, I be droppin’ tables like I’s a clumsy mover.
My brain sucks up multiples like it was made by Hoover.
I learned from the streets, I learned from the O.G.s,
And when I say six times three, you’d better say eighteen.

Six times three is eighteen.
Six times three is eighteen.
Six times three is eighteen.

I’m racing down the sidewalk, jumpin’ over rails,
I’m pushin over benches, to keep my ass outta jail.
It don’t matter if you black, white, you multiplyin’?
5-0 be seein everything ’cause they be private eyeing.
I’m dippin’ with multiples, don’t care if it’s illegal,
Cause I’m down with all the mathleats: NPR’s Robert Siegel,
Nina Totes, Fresh Air’s Terri Gross as well.
She leans in close and whispers:

(Terri Gross) Six times two equals twelve.

Six times two is twelve.
Six times two is twelve.
Six times two is twelve.

My moma’s wonderin’ where I been,
I don’t wanna tell her that her baby boy is calculating.
I’m just trying to solve the problems, be a part of the solution,
You can keep your algebra, I don’t need substitutions.
So eff all ya math haters, and listen up quick,
All day and all night I’m doin’ multiples of six.

Six times one is six.
Six times two is twelve.
Six times three is eighteen.
Six times four is twenty-four.
Six times five is thirty.
Six times six is thirty-six.
Out!

(Credit should be given to Ratatat’s remix of “Run” by Ghostface Killah, because I realized after the fact that I totally ripped off their organ in my song.)