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The lead single from Erick Sermon’s fifth album of the same name, React was released in 2002 and features production from Just Blaze and a guest verse by Redman
The song was a successful example of the early 00s trend of using samples of South Asian music in hip hop beats, perhaps best exemplified...
[Intro]
Just Blaze, yeah
Check me out now
Yo, yo, yo, yo
Check me out now
Yo, yo, yo
Let me hear ya say
(Kisi ko) Uh huh
(Khudkushi ka) Uh huh
(Shok ho tow) Uh huh
(Kya kare?) Yeah
Put your hands in the air everybody, c'mon
Where them dogs at? (*Roof roof roof roof roof*)
[Verse 1: Erick Sermon]
I'm immaculate, come through masculine
Wide-body frame, E-Dub's the name whoa
In the field of rap, I'm superb, I'm fly
I should be in the sky with birds (*caw caw caw*)
I ride twenty inch rims when I lean yo
('Ey yo them tens, nigga)
I know, I keep 'em clean though
Come through storm the block like El Niño
Scoop up an Arabic chick before she close
She goes (Kisi ko)
Those my people
(Yeah them broads from Puerto Rico, them Keith's folks)
Yeah watch how the E locs 64
Black rags, black interior, shift on the floor
Burn out, I do it for the kids
They're hopping the turnstile, the E going wild
(Yo like them White chicks on a DVD?)
Yeah I'm worldwide, MTV and BET, nigga
[Chorus]
(Kisi ko khudkushi ka shok ho tow uh huh kya kare?)
Whateva' she said then I'm that
If this here rocks to y'all then react
(Kisi ko khudkushi ka shok ho tow uh huh kya kare?)
Whateva' she said then I'm that
If this here rocks to y'all then react
[Verse 2: Redman]
Do I gotta go ape or go nutty
I leave your eye like a 9-9 Benz-buggy, puffy
Brick niggas get real ugly
Trust me, keep your four if you feel lucky
Mug me, I ain't got nothin' but four figures
And weed and hash chopped in the coffee blender
My shots like squeegee men on your window
Usual Suspect, I'm the crippled member
Get away when I sat down in the office
Heat in my lap keep me walking awkward
While y'all talk it, the doc reinforce it
The mic, it's hard to keep my paws off it
Your bitch is my bitch when it's over
No Cristal, I pulled up a King Cobra
Out in the Nova, don't bother
My Nino Brown bust, it'll shut down the corridor
[Chorus]
(Kisi ko khudkushi ka shok ho tow uh huh kya kare?)
Whateva' she said then I'm that
If this here rocks to y'all then react
(Kisi ko khudkushi ka shok ho tow uh huh kya kare?)
Whateva' she said then I'm that
If this here rocks to y'all then react
[Verse 3: Erick Sermon]
Hey yo Red, he's over (Word?)
We the shit right now
Watch this (*applause*) told ya
Chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chilling
(I'm Milk) I'm that kid Gizmo, we Top Billing
[Verse 4: Redman]
Yo, when the roof is on fire, believe it, it's me
Sparks when I rock the mic like Sigel and Free
When the pen hit the pad, the evil in me come out
Total Recall for people to breathe
I got dogs in the backyard shitting in lawns
(We got chickens ain't leaving till six in the morning)
Round and round we go, circle the area
(Leave the party, go straight to the Marriott)
Do-si-do with cowboys where they saddle at
(Rodeo with twenty-fours on the Cadillac)
(What yo name is?!) R.E.D
Crack cost money (but the E is free) yeah
[Chorus]
(Kisi ko khudkushi ka shok ho tow uh huh kya kare?)
Whateva' she said then I'm that
If this here rocks to y'all then react
(Kisi ko khudkushi ka shok ho tow uh huh kya kare?)
Whateva' she said then I'm that
If this here rocks to y'all then react
[Chorus]
(Kisi ko khudkushi ka shok ho tow uh huh kya kare?)
Whateva' she said then I'm that
If this here rocks to y'all then react
(Kisi ko khudkushi ka shok ho tow uh huh kya kare?)
Whateva' she said then I'm that
If this here rocks to y'all then react
React was written by Redman & Just Blaze & Erick Sermon.
React was produced by Just Blaze.
Erick Sermon released React on Mon Dec 09 2002.
Just Blaze told Complex:
There’s actually someone singing on that. I had a dude, I have no idea where he is now, but he came in and sang that. I had to learn a little Hindu to put it all together. It was inspired by something else, but we chopped it and made our own thing out of it. That was a reco...
Via Complex:
It was one of those instances where, when you’re mixing and you take it apart and put it back together, you lose that initial spark that was there when you made the beat. I thought the mix was cool, but when I sent it back to Eric at the label he was like,‘There’s something missing, it...