If I Can't

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"If I Can't"
"If I Can't" cover
Single by 50 Cent
from the album Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Released 2003
Format Airplay only
Genre Gangsta rap
East Coast hip hop
Length 3:16
Label Shady/Aftermath/Interscope
Writer(s) 50 Cent
Producer(s) Dr. Dre, co-prod. Mike Elizondo
Chart positions
  • #10 (UK)
  • #22 (AU)
  • #76 (USA)
50 Cent singles chronology
"P.I.M.P."
(2003)
"If I Can't"
(2003)
"Disco Inferno"
(2005)

"If I Can't" is the fourth and final single from 50 Cent's debut album, Get Rich or Die Tryin'. Released in 2003, it reached #76 in the USA becoming 50 Cent's sixth Hot 100 entry; it also peaked at #10 in the UK as a double A-side "Them Thangs" (with G-Unit).The song was written by 50 Cent and produced by Dr. Dre, with co-production from keyboardist Mike Elizondo.

[edit] Lyrics (sample):

When streetlights come on niggas blast the nines
Get locked up, then read books to pass the time

[edit] Remixes

50 Cent
Discography
Power of the Dollar | Guess Who's Back? | Get Rich or Die Tryin' (album) | The Massacre | Get Rich or Die Tryin' (soundtrack) | Before I Self Destruct
Solo singles
Wanksta | In da Club | 21 Questions | P.I.M.P. | If I Can't | Disco Inferno | Candy Shop | Just A Lil Bit | Outta Control | Hustler's Ambition | Window Shopper
Other songs & collaborations
Back Down | Magic Stick | Encore | Westside Story | How We Do | Hate It or Love It | Piggy Bank | Have a Party| Hands Up | You Don't Know