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Can I Kick It? is een nummer van het Amerikaanse rapcollectief A Tribe Called Quest uit 1991. Het is de tweede single van hun debuutalbum People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm.

Het nummer bevat samples uit Walk on the Wild Side van Lou Reed, What a Waste van Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Spinning the Wheel van Dr. Lonnie Smith en Sunshower van Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band. A Tribe Called Quest-rapper Phife Dawg beweerde dat de groep helemaal geen geld aan het nummer verdiende, omdat Lou Reed de rechten op de sample uit Walk on the Wild Side bezat. Daarnaast stonden er ook geen leden van de groep als schrijver vermeld op de credits. Can I Kick It? flopte in de VS, maar werd wel in het Verenigd Koninkrijk en in Nederland een hit. De plaat was op vrijdag 11 januari 1991 Veronica Alarmschijf op Radio 3 en werd een bescheiden hit. De plaat bereikte de 13e positie in zowel de Nederlandse Top 40 als de Nationale Top 100.

"Can I Kick It?" is a song by American hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, released in October 1990 by Jive Records as the third single from their debut album, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (1990). The song, which has a call and response chorus, was recorded in 1989, when the group members were aged 18-19. "Can I Kick It?" contains samples of "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed, "What a Waste" by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, "Spinning Wheel" by Dr. Lonnie Smith, "Dance of the Knights" by Sergei Prokofiev and "Sunshower" by Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band. Phife Dawg has stated that, because of the use of the "Walk on the Wild Side" sample, the group did not receive any money from the single, with Lou Reed instead claiming the profits. The accompanying music video for the song was directed by Jim Swaffield and filmed in New York City, featuring among others De La Soul.

"Can I Kick It?", considered one of the group's signature songs, also appears on the band's 1999 compilation album The Anthology, with the outro of "Bonita Applebum" added to the beginning of the song. In 2012, NME ranked the song number 90 in their list of the "100 Best Songs of the 1990s".