Respond/ React chords by
The Roots
The Roots

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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
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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)
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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
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Bring it back to Respond React
Then bring it back to Respond React to this
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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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Message to the fake nigga flashin
Slow up Ock, before you get dropped
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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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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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We heavyweight traction,
pro-pornographin
Specialize in science and math and,
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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
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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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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
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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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When When I'm in
your system like glycerin
Fans listenin',
from Michigan to Switzerland
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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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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?
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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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Enter your zone with penetration
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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,
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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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this up North
From Illadelphian reps,
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to fly points across the map
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Bring it back to Respond React
Then bring it back to
Respond React to
this
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We settin it from Southside, pushin
Verse 6
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this up North
From Illadelphian reps,
to fly points across the map
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Bring it back to Respond React
Then bring it back to
Respond React to this
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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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That's far from hesitant,
corrupt like a President
Never benevolent
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but poetically prevalent
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Cooler than peppermint
The Lieutenant for niggas
talkin' bout represent
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No doubt, it's obviously
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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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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
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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
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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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Peep the logistics,
slump your squad of misfits
They all get they wrists slit,
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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
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In particular I've got
that extracurricular
Squad in the stash
who could be stickin' ya
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Slip and they vickin' ya
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Harass your po-lice
commissioner
commissioner
Don't like chicks with weaves talking 'bout,
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"I need conditioner"
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That shit's deader than niggas
with a morticianer
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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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Hip-hop extravaganza, extravaganza,
tell your man I slump him with a stanza
Now "Who's the Boss?"
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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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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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We settin
Verse 10
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it from Southside,
pushin this up North
From Illadelphian reps,
to fly points across the map
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Bring it back to Respond React
Then bring it back to
Respond React to
Verse 11
this
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We
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settin
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it from Southside,
pushin this up North
From Illadelphian reps,
to fly points across the map
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Bring it back to Respond React
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Then bring it back
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to Respond React to
this

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