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"I Can" is the second single from the Nas album, God's Son.

Nas claims that before his mother died she had requested he write an inspirational song for children, and "I Can" is the result.^{[citation needed]}

The song heavily samples Beethoven's Für Elise and The Honey Drippers' "Impeach The President".

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 The song heavily samples [[Beethoven]]'s [[Für Elise]] and [[The Honey Drippers]]' "Impeach The President".
-==Historical inaccuracies==
-{{seealso|Ancient Egypt and race}}
-The song claims that [[Alexander the Great]] shot off the [[Sphinx of Giza]]'s nose<ref>[http://www.y2hiphop.com/interviews/raskass.html Interview] with [[Ras Kass]].</ref>:
-:Egypt was the place that Alexander the Great went
-:He was a'shocked at the mountains with black faces
-:Shot up they nose to impose what basically
-:Still goes on today, you see?
-This would be impossible because guns didn't exist in the time of [[Alexander the Great]].  Also, even if Alexander the Great did possess such weaponry (several thousand years ahead of his time), it has been confirmed that the Sphynx's nose was not destroyed until the 15th century AD. There is also a myth that [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleon]] shot off the nose, but this has also been disproven.<ref name="SphynxEgypt">Ulrich Haarmann, "Regional Sentiment in Medieval Islamic Egypt," BSOAS 43 (1980) 55-66</ref>
 ==Track listing==