"I Can't Lose"
The Remixes EP artwork
Promotional single byMark Ronson featuring Keyone Starr
from the albumUptown Special
Released	2015 (2015)
Recorded	2014
Genre	Synthfunk[1] soul-pop[2]
Length	3:16
Label	Sony Columbia RCA
Songwriters	Jeff Bhasker Calvin Broadus Ricardo Brown Michael Chabon Warren Griffin Nathaniel Hale Joseph Longo Mark Ronson Andre Young
Producers	Jeff Bhasker Mark Ronson Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

"I Can't Lose" is a song by English DJ and record producerMark Ronson with featured vocals by Keyone Starr. The song is a promotional single from Ronson's fourth studio albumUptown Special, released on 13 January 2015.

The song was written as the follow-up to "Uptown Funk" fromUptown Special. "I Can't Lose" was written mostly byJeff Bhasker and samplesSnoop Dogg's "Ain't No Fun (If the Homies Can't Have None)" and "Hot Music" bySoho;^[3] in an interview withThe Guardian, Ronson described how Bhaskar had decided that the most appropriate way of discovering an appropriate vocalist for the song was to "drive through the deep south to find someone to sing it", an idea which Ronson loved. This trawling process led to Ronson and Bhaskar sifting through "a few hundred amazing singers" in assorted churches, nightclubs, bars and community centres.^[4] However they "had a very specific vocalist in mind", who turned out to be Keyone as both of them realised as she started singing^[4] inMississippi State University.^[5]

A music video was produced for the song. It features both Ronson and Starr performing in an underground Chinatown club along with assorted musicians. The title of the source album,Uptown Special, appears frequently throughout the video. Two rival gangs gamble whilst this performance is going on; after one group loses, a dance-fight breaks out in the car park, with the song's trumpet break causing the club to vibrate. Starr then proceeds to abscond with the winnings and Ronson acts as the getaway driver.^[6]

Rolling Stone termed the song "a seductive soul-pop jam".^[2]The Guardian described it as "a brass-studded, synth-funk bagatelle that sounds straight outta [sic] 1982".^[1]

• The Remixes EP^[7]

1. I Can't Lose (Artful Remix) – 4:47
2. I Can't Lose (Lindstrøm Remix) – 7:42
3. I Can't Lose (Pomo Remix) – 3:37
4. I Can't Lose (Duke Dumont Remix) – 4:21
5. I Can't Lose (MenuWriteMessage Remix) – 2:32

• Mark Ronson songs
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• Songs written by Snoop Dogg
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• Songs written by Dr. Dre
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