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
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
Take you niggas back to the line of the scrimmage
'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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  1. D.... S....

    Still bangin in 2019.... I miss real hip hop not like hip pop that's out around

  2. J.... H....

    The last dude had the best verse and I have said that one time ever about Black Thought!!

  3. n.... ....

    sleep on Malik B if you want to!

    n.... ....

    noony0929 he killed it

  4. L.... S....

    6 weirdos couldn't help hatin on this track

  5. I.... M....

    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

    I.... M....

    wrong song

  6. y.... ....

    greg porn with probably the best verse ever

  7. L.... ....

    insane track. from the beginning they were spitting heat. that beat is fucking disgusting slap your grandma shit

    L.... ....

    @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.

    L.... ....

    @Liquidmetal702 i never said im the only one whos ever heard of radio head. 

    L.... ....

    @KÄÏJÜ The literal gay autistic normie your generalizations are too simple and self centered for depth. Good day

    L.... ....

    @Liquidmetal702 k 

    L.... ....

    @KÄÏJÜ The literal gay autistic normie K

  8. B.... ....

    when you fuckin with the roots thats as good as it gets!!!

  9. l.... ....

    the beat is menacing

    l.... ....

    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.

  10. j.... ....

    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

  11. M.... T....

    Surprised the mic didn't explode after black thought verse

    M.... T....

    Matt Turner I think it did lol

    M.... T....

    Matt Turner Porn completely burned this track down!!

  12. J.... l....

    THIS DOPE

  13. M.... M....

    The instro isnt on Youtube :(

  14. l.... ....

    One of the best tracks they've ever put out

  15. B.... B....

    Alot of people "didn't like this album at first" ?..That's bizarre to me....

  16. W.... A....

    P.O.R.N. took this album apart. Crazy stuff.

  17. B.... J....

    Dice Raw murdered this!!

  18. B.... ....

    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).

  19. t.... ....

    I wanna fight to this song!!

  20. J.... W....

    Porn destroyed this track

  21. J.... L....

    Finally people realizing that this is real hip hop, no dislikes is what i like to see.

  22. C.... ....

    @chu1111111 ya i kinda had to have this album grow on me too

  23. B.... J....

    Dude Dice Raw Killed it!

  24. R.... ....

    I keep listening to this song because
    i-i-i can't help it!

  25. w.... ....

    sick ass beat

  26. E.... K....

    @darksonic50047 So funny because my brother and I love that verse too! Sick wordplay.

  27. P.... F....

    "Nervous conditions, addictions, in addition to vixens that mixed in"

    Porn destroys this track, so cold.

    P.... F....

    Paul Fournier completely destroyed the track!!! “ my life is on flight that’s going down, my mother had an abortion but the wrong child”

  28. l.... ....

    Black thought is the second mc on the song.

  29. j.... ....

    my fave Roots song. whole album is crazy tho...and every other song they ever made

  30. l.... ....

    black thoughts verse was legendary.

  31. d.... ....

    Yo Ryan, ahmma let you finish, but first I got to let you know...

    ...La Caution got the best bassline!

  32. R.... S....

    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.

  33. C.... H....

    Questlove owns it