I Can't Live Without My Radio

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“I Can't Live Without My Radio”
“I Can't Live Without My Radio” cover
Single by LL Cool J
from the album Radio
B-side I Can Give You More
Released 1985
Format Vinyl Single
Recorded 1985
Genre Hip Hop
Length 5:27
Label Def Jam Recordings
Writer(s) James Todd Smith
Producer Rick Rubin, LL Cool J
LL Cool J singles chronology
I Need A Beat
(1984)
I Can't Live Without My Radio
(1985)
I Can Give You More
(1985)

I Can't Live Without My Radio is the first single from LL Cool J's first album, Radio. It was released in 1985 for Def Jam Recordings and was both written and produced by LL Cool J and Rick Rubin. The song found modest success, making it to #15 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks and today is usually considered to be on of the best hip hop songs ever recorded. I Can't Live Without My Radio was released with the follow-up single, I Can Give You More.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] A-Side

  1. "I Can Give You More"- 4:16

[edit] B-Side

  1. "I Can't Live Without My Radio"- 4:12