I Can't Say No

[Produced by Kanye West]

[Intro: Natalie Cole]

Just to be where you are...

I can't say no

I can't say no

I can't say no

[Verse 1: Kanye West]

Wake up, new day, same shit

Get dressed, gotta pay my rent

Little off for the money I spent

Next week 'til I get my check

And I don't even wanna work at this job

Matter fact I've been workin' too hard

Let's say I quit today

Come back, go postal tomorr'

This time I'ma take shit too far

I don't give a fuck who you are

When you broke they do you so wrong

When you blow they knew you was raw

Two strikes so you can't sell coke

Two kids so we can't stay broke

But the street life all we know

So you know one thing? I can't say no

[Hook: Natalie Cole]

I can't say no

I can't say no

I can't say no

I can't say no

[Verse 2: Trick Daddy]

If it wasn't for the fact that I so happened to be rappin'

I'd prolly be jackin', prolly be trappin'

Somewhere traffickin' packages

Takin' this shit back to the bases

But that's the past and I'm tryin' to erase this

But how the hell am I s'posed to live

When the government want half on every mil'?

The cost of gas still climbin' rapidly

And I pay the city, the county, state

And mothafuckas still out there tryna tax me

I gotta sell more ringtones

I gotta cut back and stop usin' my juke phones

Cause at the rate I'm goin'

I'm bound to lose my home off the interest rate alone

[Hook: Natalie Cole]

I can't say no

(I can't say no, I can't say no)

I can't say no

(I can't say no, no)

I can't say no

(I can't say no)

I can't say no

[Outro: Trick Daddy]

How can I say no?

How can I say no after all this time?

If it wasn't for the ghetto, where would I be?

If it wasn't for those food stamps and welfare checks mama used to give me

Where would I be?

If it wasn't for the hood, if it wasn't for the addicts

If it wasn't for the fact that they was on drugs

That they didn't know enough not to get on drugs

Shit wasn't for the struggle

Wasn't for bad luck

Wouldn't be nothin'