Released: April 28, 2008

Featuring: Greg Porn Mercedes Martinez Malik B Dice Raw

Songwriter: ?uestlove Richard Nichols Black Thought Dice Raw Mercedes Martinez Greg Porn Malik B

Producer: Richard Nichols The Roots

[Hook: Mercedes Martinez, Dice Raw & Both]
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, 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, Dice Raw & Both]
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, I can't help it

[Verse 2: Black Thought]
Uhh, 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 than 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, Dice Raw & Both]
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, I can't help it

[Verse 3: Greg 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 coming, 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
Well, 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 cause, the crime, Ks, penalties

[Hook: Mercedes Martinez, Dice Raw & Both]
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, I can't help it

[Outro: Mercedes Martinez & Dice Raw]
I can't help it, I, I, I can't help it
I can't help it, I, I, I can't help it
I, I can't help it
I, I, I can't help it
I, I can't help it
I, I, I can't help it
I can't help it, I, I, I can't help it
I can't help it, I, I, I can't help it
I, I can't help it
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I can't help, I-I can't help it
I can't help it, I, I, I can't help it
I can't help it, I, I, I can't help it
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I, I, I can't help it
I, I, I can't help it
I can't help it, I, I can't help it
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I, I can't help it
I, I, I can't help it
I, I, I, I can't help it

The Roots

The world’s premiere hip-hop band, The Roots were formed in Philadelphia in 1987 by MC Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter and drummer and bandleader Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. Since those early days, the band has weathered changes in personnel and record labels while performing hundreds of shows a year and releasing a string of well-regarded (if not always top-selling) albums.

While the musicianship of Thompson and the other band members, as well as their seemingly limitless repertoire, gets most of the attention, real hip-hop fans know that the rapping skills of Black Thought (along with former group member Malik B.) are the group’s hidden weapon. Thought, one of the few MCs brave enough to go toe to toe with Big Pun, handles any groove the band throws at him with aplomb, style, and flash.

Today, The Roots are seen by millions every night as the house band on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, a move that has given the group the chance to indulge its not-insignificant comic side.