Respond/ React chords by
The Roots
The Roots

N/A
Key: E major
Verse 1
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It's just hip-hop hangin'
in in my head heavy
Malik said "Riq, you know
the planet ain't ready
Em
Em
For the half" when we comin'
with the action pack
On some Dundee shit
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representin' the outback
Yo, we do it like this (All the way live, from
2-1-5)
You witnessin' the 5th Dynasty family click
(All the way live, from 2-1-5)
Em
Em
Across the map, one time for ya (All the way live,
from 2-1-5)
It's time to react to respond to react to
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respond (All the way live, from 2-1-5)
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We settin it from Southside, pushin
Verse 2
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this up North
From Illadelphian reps,
to fly points across the map
Em
Em
Bring it back to Respond React
Then bring it back to Respond React to this
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Fm
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The at tractive as sassin, blastin
Verse 3
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the devil trespassin
Master gettin cash in an
orderly fashion
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Em
Message to the fake nigga flashin
Slow up Ock, before you get dropped
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Fm
and closed like a caption
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Fractional kids don't
know the time for action
Styles got the rhythm that
of an Anglo-Saxon
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Em
Em
Round Round of applause,
an avalanche of clappin
{*BLOW*} that's what happen,
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now what's your reaction
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F#m
We heavyweight traction,
pro-pornographin
Specialize in science and math and,
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Em
original black man
Bustin thoughts that pierce
your mental
The fierce rippin your sacks and
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Vocal toe to toe impeccable
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splittin your back son
Simple as addition
and subtraction
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Black Thought, the infinite re laxed one
Em
Em
Shorties say they love it with a passion
Bring the international charm,
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see a squad I har ass
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F#m
React, you best adapt when
Verse 4
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I sling this rap
Another chapter,
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before when I have to trap ya
Em
Em
Map your whole path out
Go get your crowd so we can clap out
I drive down streets and take
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back route-positionin'
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F#m
When When I'm in
your system like glycerin
Fans listenin',
from Michigan to Switzerland
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Em
Malik be blitzed again - on the
station with the discipline
Solicitin', sometimes illicit
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or explicit with it and
From the deep end where
the hills are steep
Nobody cares to speak,
a land where life is cheap
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Em
The street mentality,
mixed with the intellect
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Personality, hell where I dwell as well
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Niggas rebellious,
bodies are found down in the cellars
My man caught a shot to the stomach,
now who want it?
Em
Em
Confronted by these dusty
blunted - cats who act like
They don't know that the fact
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is that they're bein hunted
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A process of elimination
Activate your mind with the stimulation
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Fm
Enter your zone with penetration
Em
Em
I've seen more horror
than Bram Stroker
Strip your broad or play poker,
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then drink mocha
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The sometimes socializer, the joke
despiser
You woke the wiser,
Em
Em
dealin' with the Roots vocalizer
Up in your flesh from South
Philly to West
I stampede your style,
I'll compile then bless
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We settin it from Southside, pushin
Verse 5
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F#m
this up North
From Illadelphian reps,
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Fm
to fly points across the map
Em
Em
Bring it back to Respond React
Then bring it back to
Respond React to
this
Fm
Fm
F#m
F#m
We settin it from Southside, pushin
Verse 6
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F#m
this up North
From Illadelphian reps,
to fly points across the map
Em
Em
Bring it back to Respond React
Then bring it back to
Respond React to this
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Fdim
F#m
F#m
Hey yo, I'm just a
Verse 7
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lyricist, a chemist of the hemp
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The beat pimp, the ill Philly resident
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Em
That's far from hesitant,
corrupt like a President
Never benevolent
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but poetically prevalent
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Cool er than peppermint
The Lieutenant for niggas
talkin' bout represent
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Fm
No doubt, it's obviously
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Em
evident I get bent
Far from temporary son
I'm very permanent
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Hittin' MC's like an intoxicant,
sent to prevent
Monopoly is my intent,
the means is what I invent
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Em
This mental murder pay the rent
Lyrically I'm the dominant ingredient,
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the swift extravagant
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Smooth lubricant,
down with the M-the-Ill-itant
(ch-ch-ch) That's That's the
sound of the Dynasty chant
Em
Em
We surround your camp,
assumin' the war stance
And bring it from the chest,
now let's dance
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M-ILL-ITANT, feel feel
Verse 8
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the
5th guerilla chant
Y'all talk about bodies but
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you would not kill a ant
Em
Em
My skill is amp,
would peel a nigga like a stamp
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Caliber is of Excalibur now you be damp
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When I operate a crowd will copulate
My game'll make a room populate
and 2-1-5th is the stock of hate
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Em
Peep the logistics,
slump your squad of misfits
They all get they wrists slit,
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Fm
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blast your ass if you insist it
Leave no trace so there's
no trace for ballistics
Turn your soul and body to statistics
Em
Em
In particular I've got
that extracurricular
Squad in the stash
who could be stickin' ya
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Fdim
Slip and they vickin' ya
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F#m
Harass your po-lice
commissioner
commissioner
Don't like chicks with weaves talking 'bout,
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Fm
"I need conditioner"
Em
Em
That shit's deader than niggas
with a morticianer
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Fm
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A jenazah, up in your flesh like plasma
Take away your last breath when
you got asthma
Then meet Bad Lieu down at the plaza
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Em
Hip-hop extravaganza, extravaganza,
tell your man I slump him with a stanza
Now "Who's the Boss?"
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Fm
not Tony Danza
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My force not green but the
force is obscene
P.O. took a piss test it came
out not clean
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Em
Brody with my man Miz-Moose
and and Hakeem
My squad from deuce-four
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up up to West Oak Lane
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All the way to Takahwana and Frankfurt
they know the name
It's like that M-Ill-itant
Verse 9
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M-Ill-itant, lyrically lyrically lyrically hostile,
Bad Lieutenant
Check it out, foul style check it out
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Fm
We settin
Verse 10
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it from Southside,
pushin this up North
From Illadelphian reps,
to fly points across the map
Em
Em
Bring it back to Respond React
Then bring it back to
Respond React to
Verse 11
this
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We
Em
Em
settin
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F#m
it from Southside,
pushin this up North
From Illadelphian reps,
to fly points across the map
Em
Em
Bring it back to Respond React
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Fm
F#m
F#m
Em
Em
Then bring it back
Em
Em
to Respond React to
this

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