Tyrese released the song “How You Gonna Act Like That” on his third studio album, I Wanna Go There (2002).
Gibson, Eric Dawkins, Harvey Mason Jr., Damon Thomas, and Polynesian artist George Veikoso (Fiji) all contributed to the writing; Mason and Thomas oversaw production under the name The Underdogs.
The song, which served as the album’s lead single, peaked at number three on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100.