Retaliation (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Retaliation


Artist = Jedi Mind Tricks
from Album = Violent by Design
B-side = "Blood Runs Cold"
Released = 2001
Format = 12" Vinyl
Recorded = 2000, Onesoul Bedroom, Philadelphia, PA
Genre = Hip Hop
Length = 3:44
Label = Superegular Recordings
Writer = V. Luvineri, J. Bostick,
K. Baldwin
Producer = Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "Genghis Khan"
(2000)
This single = "Retaliation"
(2001)
Next single = "Animal Rap"
(2002)

"Retaliation" is a single by Hip Hop group Jedi Mind Tricks, the third released from their second album "Violent by Design", following "Heavenly Divine" and "Genghis Khan". Released in 2001, the single was the group's last release on self-run Superegular Recordings [http://hiphop.discogs.com/release/392078] . The following year, the group migrated to Babygrande Records [http://hiphop.discogs.com/release/512246] . "Retaliation" contains a musical sample from "El Rio Y Las Rosas" by Rosita Peru, and a vocal sample from "Cross My Heart" by Killah Priest. The single also contains the edited "Retaliation (Remix)", and the B-Side track "Blood Runs Cold", featuring Heltah Skeltah's Sean Price, both originally only available on this single [http://hiphop.discogs.com/release/392078] . Babygrande Records re-released "Violent by Design" in 2004, including both "Retaliation (Remix)" and "Blood Runs Cold" as bonus tracks [http://hiphop.discogs.com/release/569129] .

The "Retaliation" single marked the last appearance from group member Jus Allah on a Jedi Mind Tricks track. By 2002, he had split from the group due to personal conflict, returning the group to its original lineup of Vinnie Paz and Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind. Jus reconciled with the group in 2006, and is rumored to appear on the group's upcoming album, "A History of Violence" [http://www.philaflava.com/vinnie_paz.htm] .

Track listing

A-Side

#"Retaliation" (Dirty Version)
#"Retaliation" (Instrumental)
#"Retaliation (Remix)" (Clean Version)
#"Retaliation (Remix)" (Instrumental)

B-Side

#"Blood Runs Cold" (Dirty Version) (feat. Sean Price)
#"Blood Runs Cold" (Clean Version) (feat. Sean Price)
#"Blood Runs Cold" (Instrumental)

ong order

"Retaliation"

*First verse: Jus Allah
*Second verse: Vinnie Paz
*Intro/Outro: Vinnie Paz

"Blood Runs Cold"

*Intro/First verse: Sean Price
*Second verse: Jus Allah
*Third verse: Vinnie Paz
*Chorus: Vinnie Paz

Notes

*"Retaliation" contains a sample from "El Rio Y Las Rosas" by Rosita Peru.
*"Retaliation" contains a sample from "Cross My Heart" by Killah Priest.
*"Retaliation (Remix)" contains a sample from "De Los Amores" by Susana Baca.
*"Blood Runs Cold" contains a sample from "Septiembre Y Usted" by Wilkins.