The Roots - Respond/React lyrics

It's just hip-Hop hangin' in my head heavy
Malik said "Riq
You know the planet ain't ready for the half"
When we comin' with the action pack
On some Dundee shit, representin' the outback
Yo, we do it like this
(All the way live, from 2-1-5)
You witnessin' the 5th Dynasty family clique
(All the way live, from 2-1-5)
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 respond
(All the way live, from 2-1-5)

We settin' it from Southside
Pushin' this up North
From Illadelphian reps
To fly points across the map
Bring it back to Respond react
Then bring it back to Respond react to this



The attractive assassin
Blastin' the devil trespassin'
Master gettin' cash in an orderly fashion
Message to the fake nigga flashin':
Slow up, Ock, before you get dropped and
Closed like a caption
Fractional kids don't know the
Time for action
Styles got the rhythm that of an Anglo-Saxon
Round of applause, an avalanche of clappin'
BLOW That's what happen
Now what's your reaction?
We heavyweight traction, pro-pornographin'
Specialize in science and math and
Original Black man bustin' thoughts
That pierce your mental
The fierce rippin' your sacks and
Vocal toe-to-toe impeccable, splittin'
Your back, son
Simple as addition and subtraction
Black Thought the infinite relaxed one
Shorties say they love it with a passion
Bring the international traum', see a squad
I harass

REACT, you best adapt when I sling this rap
Another chapter
Before when I have to trap ya
Map your whole path out
Go get your crowd so we can clap out
I drive down streets and
Take back route positionin'
When I'm in your system like glycerin
Fans listenin' from Michigan to Switzerland
Malik be bliss again
On the station with the discipline
Solicitin', sometimes illicit or explicit
With it and
From the deep end where the hills are steep
Nobody cares to speak
A land where life is cheap
The street mentality mixed with
The intellect personality
Hell where I dwell as well
Niggas rebellious
Bodies are found down in the cellars
My man caught a shot to the stomach
Now who want it?
Confronted by these dusty blunted
Cats who act
Like they don't know that the fact
Is that they bein' hunted
A process of elimination
Activate your mind with the stimulation
Enter your zone with penetration
I've seen more horror than Bram Stroker
Strip your broad or play poker
Then drink mocha
The sometimes socializer, the joke despiser
You woke the wiser
Dealin' with The Roots' vocalizer
Up in your flesh from South Philly to West
I stampede your style
I'll compile then bless

We settin' it from Southside
Pushin' this up North
From Illadelphian reps
To fly points across the map
Bring it back to Respond react
Then bring it back to Respond react to this

We settin' it from Southside
Pushin' this up North
From Illadelphian reps
To fly points across the map
Bring it back to Respond react
Then bring it back to Respond react to this

A yo, I'm just a lyricist
A chemist of the hemp
The beat pimp, the ill Philly resident
That's far from hesitant
Corrupt like a president
Never benevolent, but poetically prevalent
Cooler than peppermint
The Lieutenant for niggas
Talkin' 'bout represent
No doubt, it's obviously evident I get bent
Far from temporary, son, I'm very permanent
Hittin' MC's like an intoxicant
Sent to prevent monopoly is my intent
The means is what I invent
This mental murder pay the rent
Lyrically, I'm the dominant ingredient
The swift extravagant smooth lubricant
Down with the M-the-Ill-itant
(Ch-ch-ch) That's the sound of
The Dynasty chant we surround your camp
Assumin' the war stance
And bring it from the chest
Now let's daaance

M-ILL-ITANT! Feel The Fifth guerilla chant
Y'all talk about bodies
But you would not kill a ant
My skill is amp
Would peel a nigga like a stamp
Caliber is of Excalibur, now you be damp
When I operate, a crowd will copulate
My game'll make a room populate
And 2-1-5th is the stock of hate
Peep the logistics
Slump your squad of misfit's
They all get they wrists slit
Blast your ass if you insist it
Leave no trace so there's
No trace for ballistics
Turn your soul and body to statistics
In particular, I've got that extracurricular
Squad in the stash who could be stickin' ya
Slip and they vickin' ya
Harass your po-lice commissioner
Don't like chicks with weaves talkin' 'bout
"I need conditioner"
That shit's deader than niggas
With a morticianer
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
Hip-hop extravaganza
Tell your man I slump him with a stanza
Now "Who's the Boss?" not Tony Danza
My force not green, but the force is obscene
PO took a piss test it came out not clean
Brody with my man Miz-Moose and Hakeem
My squad from deuce-four up to West Oak Lane
All the way to Tackawanna and Frankford
They know the name
It's like that m-Ill-itant

M-Ill-itant, lyrically hostile
Bad Lieutenant
Check it out, foul style, check it out

We settin' it from Southside
Pushin' this up North
From Illadelphian reps
To fly points across the map
Bring it back to Respond react
Then bring it back to Respond react to this

We settin' it from Southside
Pushin' this up North
From Illadelphian reps
To fly points across the map
Bring it back to Respond react
Then bring it back to Respond react to this

We settin' it from Southside
Pushin' this up North
From Illadelphian reps
To fly points across the map
Bring it back to Respond react
Then bring it back to Respond react to this

We settin' it from Southside
Pushin' this up North
From Illadelphian reps
To fly points across the map
Bring it back to Respond react
Then bring it back to Respond react to this