React Lyrics

[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 khhud khhushi kaa shauq ho to kya kare koi)?)
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

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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 by Timbaland and DJ Quik. However it attracted some criticism due to Just Blaze’s use of a sample from the 1963 Indian film Taj Mahal.
http://youtu.be/fs-8gWS_5Tw?t=8m13s
The sampled line (at 8:14), sung in Hindi by Meena Kapoor, “Kisi ko khudkushi ka shok ho tow uh huh kya kare?” translates as “If somebody wants to commit suicide, what can be done?”. Sermon’s response of “Whatever she said, then I’m that,” as well as his identification of the female voice as Arabic seems fairly inane given the translation.

Just Blaze has explained to 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. … I chopped words out of it to make it say that.

Q&A

Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning

What did Erick Sermon say about "React"?
Genius Answer

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 record that I had, and I chopped words out of it to make it say that. Then I had the dude sing it, not knowing it was the whole thing about suicide. So, they had the whole thing where Eric had to jump out the window and people were like, ‘Was that record a cry for help?’ I was like, ‘Nah, it was just a coincidence. It wasn’t premeditated.

What else did Just Blaze say about the track?
Genius Answer

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 doesn’t feel the same.’ I fought them on it at first, but I went back and listened to it and realized there was a certain element missing. It wasn’t a specific sound, but the gel wasn’t there in the mix. So we took the karaoke version, and we mastered that. That’s what went out to the radio, and that’s what made the album. It just goes to show that sometimes you don’t have to over-mix and over-think a record. Sometimes that initial spontaneous spark is what matters.

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December 9, 2002
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