Roots, The - I Can't Help It Lyrics
[Hook - Mercedes Martinez]
I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Help It
I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It
I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It
I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Help It
I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It
[Verse 1 - Malik B]
Live with it, that's how I survive with it
Talk jive with it, you take a dive with it
Connive with it, depart and arrive with it
Harsh thrive, that's why it's part I with it
I did it, make rhymes in five minutes
Mind of a dentist, crimes of a menace
Press rewind, see what you find in my image
'Riq, you know we pull a freak with the flow
Talk's cheap, that's why we speak with the dough
Ill technique show I'm sleek with the flow
It's cold outside, nigga, sleep with the snow
I tweek in the low tone, freak with the ozone
I can't help hiding my secrets that's so known
I only do what I got to 'cause it's possible
And climbin' over whatever's known as an obstacle
[Hook - Mercedes Martinez]
I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Help It
I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It
I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It
I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Help It
I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It
I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It
[Verse 2 - Black Thought]
Ugh, I Can't Help It, maybe I'm selfish
Maybe the way I'm runnin' is becomin' a health risk
All I can see is smoke through tortoise shell
Gazelle 650's, I'm feelin' like I'm makin' a sales pitch
My head already so heavy, it's makin' the scales tip
I got my own pressure and got everyone else's
I'm rehabilitated, still feelin' rebellious
Candidate of heart failure, more pills then Elvis
In a layer cake, half-chocolate, half-velvet
I'm listenin' to some Howe Melvin
I got too many options, there's so many toxins
Yo, ain't no really tellin' what we killin' ourselves with
I lit a cigarette and inhaled it
I'm thinkin' of some rhymes more iller then a threatening ailment
I'm on some bomb threat in the mail shit
Because of all the things I dealt with, nigga, I Can't Help It
[Hook - Mercedes Martinez]
I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Help It
I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It
I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It
I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Help It
I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It
I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It
[Verse 3 - Porn]
I never said I'm ready to die, but I accept it
Never said I'm ready for war, but I'm protected
I don't even know when it's comin', but I expect it
Lost all semblance of hope, so now I'm left with
Nervous conditions, addictions, in addition
to vixens that mixed in with the wrong crowd
My life is on a flight that's goin' down
My mother had an abortion for the wrong child
With the time I felt love, that's gone now
Been replaced by purple rains and some storm clouds
Misery love misery
So why make friends? Let's make some enemies
And now I got a habit that wasn't meant for me
Now I'm in a marriage that wasn't meant to be
One more reason to change identity
The cars, the crime, K's, penalties
[Hook - Mercedes Martinez]
I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Help It
I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It
I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It
I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Help It
I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It
I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It
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Roots, The I Can't Help It Comments
Still bangin in 2019.... I miss real hip hop not like hip pop that's out around
The last dude had the best verse and I have said that one time ever about Black Thought!!
sleep on Malik B if you want to!
noony0929 he killed it
6 weirdos couldn't help hatin on this track
Lyrics
[Hook: Truck North]
Monday they predict the storm
Tuesday they predict the bang
Wednesday they cover the crash
And I can see it's all about cash
And they got the nerve to hunt down my ass
And treat me like a criminal
[Verse 1: Black Thought]
Look, it is what it is because of what it was
I did what I did cause it does what it does
I don't put nothing above what I am, what I love
My family, my blood, my city and my hood
Hater for the greater good, I'm back from Hollywood
And I ain't changed a lick though I know I probably should
But what I'm doing is not a good look
I never did it by the good book as a lifetime crook
All the petty crime took a toll on me
I look around at my homies that's getting old on me
But still something gotta hold on me
Maybe it's fate
If it's coming, yo I'm willing to wait
I'm not running, I done ran through the muck
I done scrambled and such
I done robbed an odd jobbed and gambled enough
Until I'm put up in handcuffs and pissing in a cup
If there's a God, I don't know if he listening or what
[Hook]
[Verse 2: Truck North]
Yeah, it is what it is
And that's how it go
Get treated like a criminal if crime is all you know
Get greeted like a nigga if a nigga's all you show
A public enemy that's in the eye of the scope
My city like a island where you can't find a boat
Have you wishing for a raft
And praying that hope floats
Some real ethnic cleansing going down no soap
Who looking for a chair and some real strong rope
Just to end it all here
Screaming "fuck the mayor"
He see the faces at the bottom of the well clear
They act like I'm something to fear
Trapped in urban warfare
And putting triggers ahead a college career
Can't ignore the call of the wild
That's drawing them near
Try to make fast money last long some years
Try to laugh it off
Still couldn't lose the tears
To the rules, I will not adhere
Break the law, yeah
[Hook]
[Verse 3: Saigon]
Who want to challenge mine?
I'm sick of St. Valentine
I did the violent crimes
That's why I got this style of rhyme
Seek repentance to spitting them sentences that's senseless
Experience is the difference, you can't convince this
In a crime sense, niggas is infants
I'm like a senior citizen
Still living but getting benefits
Put emphasis on hitting my nemesis in high percentages
Crooked ass cops is the reason for my belligerence
And it gets deeper than that
There were nights I used to sleep with a gat
With a package of crack under my sneaker strap
D's sneak attack, arraign me, it took a week for that
Beat the rap, but you're saying "look, he think he the mack"
Fuck y'all!
Niggas who thinking they might try us
Watch us insight riots
Flip cars and light fires
We already been knocked, scrutinized
Plus cops rush to brutalize us
America is polluted by lust
Who could I trust?
If I can't trust you, then I might touch you
If I ain't got love for you
Then fuck you
wrong song
greg porn with probably the best verse ever
insane track. from the beginning they were spitting heat. that beat is fucking disgusting slap your grandma shit
@KÄÏJÜ The literal gay autistic normie This clown acts like he's the first cool guy to hear Radio Head. A band that's 20 years old. Old man you're not the only Old man in this world. You're a horrible Head to even compare the two.
@Liquidmetal702 i never said im the only one whos ever heard of radio head.
@KÄÏJÜ The literal gay autistic normie your generalizations are too simple and self centered for depth. Good day
@Liquidmetal702 k
@KÄÏJÜ The literal gay autistic normie K
when you fuckin with the roots thats as good as it gets!!!
the beat is menacing
The whole album was like this, like an extension of the darkest parts of Game Theory. My GF hated it at the time, and I only played it at night.
My life is like a flight that's goin down
My mother had an abortion with the wrong child
Or the time I felt love, that's gone now
Been replaced by purple rains and some storm clouds
Misery loves misery, so why make friends let's make some enemies
Holy fuck P.O.R.N. just went ham sandwich on this one
Surprised the mic didn't explode after black thought verse
Matt Turner I think it did lol
Matt Turner Porn completely burned this track down!!
THIS DOPE
The instro isnt on Youtube :(
One of the best tracks they've ever put out
Alot of people "didn't like this album at first" ?..That's bizarre to me....
P.O.R.N. took this album apart. Crazy stuff.
Dice Raw murdered this!!
Atmospherically this track is undeniably one of the darkest and lyrically one of the best off the album (Black Thought at work - with Porn delivering one of his best verses ever).
I wanna fight to this song!!
Porn destroyed this track
Finally people realizing that this is real hip hop, no dislikes is what i like to see.
@chu1111111 ya i kinda had to have this album grow on me too
Dude Dice Raw Killed it!
I keep listening to this song because
i-i-i can't help it!
sick ass beat
@darksonic50047 So funny because my brother and I love that verse too! Sick wordplay.
"Nervous conditions, addictions, in addition to vixens that mixed in"
Porn destroys this track, so cold.
Paul Fournier completely destroyed the track!!! “ my life is on flight that’s going down, my mother had an abortion but the wrong child”
Black thought is the second mc on the song.
my fave Roots song. whole album is crazy tho...and every other song they ever made
black thoughts verse was legendary.
Yo Ryan, ahmma let you finish, but first I got to let you know...
...La Caution got the best bassline!
bass line sounds like its from that kanye song "diamonds are forever"
I like this song better but the kanye bassline is sicker, id like to hear a mash up of those 2 tracks.
Questlove owns it