Just Math

"Just Math"
Song by Mike Shinoda
from the album Mikeshinoda.com Exclusives
Working title:	7.10 release day
Released:	December 12, 2023
Format:	Digital
Length:	2:41
Writer:	Mike Shinoda
Producer:	Mike Shinoda
Mikeshinoda.com Exclusives tracklist
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"Just Math" is the first track on Mikeshinoda.com Exclusives, a streaming-only album by Mike Shinoda released exclusively on his official website to holders of his digital collectibles. It's the only track on the album to have vocals by Mike Shinoda.

Background

"Just Math" started as a freestyle track titled "Release Day" created by Mike Shinoda live on Twitch on July 10, 2020 using two loops from Sounds.com requested by fans. The working title originated from the fact that the song was started on the day of the listening party for the release of Dropped Frames, Vol. 1. During the stream, he rapped parts of "Bleed It Out", "Wretches And Kings" and "Skin To Bone (Nick Catchdubs Remix)" over it.

Versions

Note: Only the date of the very first release of each version is listed.

Title	Album	Length	Recorded	Released	Notes
Just Math	Mikeshinoda.com Exclusives	2:41		December 12, 2023

Lyrics

Album Version

Is it just math?
16 steps in a four bar clip, yeah
Is it just math?
Halftime, cut it on the grid grid grid
We're just trapped
Can’t we just split it in different divisions it
Is it just math?
16 steps in a four bar clip

This rhyme designed was primeval
Made live with all of my people
Twitch faces' up when my beat go
Your vinyl ride on my needle
Photoshop option, click a quick class
Or procreate fade, I illustrate castles
Word I excel it out, look at past
Microsoft DOS is cooking to an apple

I might be stepping over the limit with it
Footprint is so big, they never fitting in it
My name, they put fang of venom in it
Too sick to put up another minute with it
Ciniminis, I am compelled
To do somothing to them, they hardly can spell
Carried by six of the judge and by 12
I'm adding it up and I’m asking myself

Is it just math?
16 steps in a four bar clip, yeah
Is it just math?
Halftime, cut it on the grid grid grid
We're just trapped
Can't we just split it in different divisions it
Is it just math?
16 steps in a four bar clip (clip) [x8]

Certified not, I pay great stuff, you say yuck
I don't even get what anybody seeing this stuff
And that's why, buddy, you stay stuck
Living in the painful state you made up
Pushing them down, you never stay up
Looking for a way to take, but not pay it for
It show all the lame you made of

This is a language eternal
Divide ratio written in rhyme
I keep on squaring the circle
They keep on tracing the shape of my lines
Yeah

Is it just math?
16 steps in a four bar clip, yeah
Is it just math?
Halftime, cut it on the grid grid
We're just trapped
Can't we just split it in different divisions it
Is it just math?
16 steps in a four bar clip

32 steps and a two bar clip

16 steps in a four bar clip yeah

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