CHECKMATE by INDIGOS Lyrics
[Intro: Lil Shaan & KingChad]
This ain't checkers, right?
Turn my headphones up a little bit
Let's go
KingChad on the beat, yuh
[Verse 1: KingChad]
Checkmate
That's a checkmate
Same thing
Unlike Plain Jane
I play brain games
Insane
Two different rappers preach two different things
No pain no gain
No chain no fame
Step up to the paint
Think they're gonna rise to fame, LeBron James
Till they crash in the skies like a damn airplane
But some ignorant rappers think that money can rain
All they say is Gang Gang
[Verse 2: MattHasRaps]
Throw a dime in the drain Tom Brady
All these eyes on me they be gazy
All these lies man they be lazy
I'ma slide on em till they faze me
Yeah I'm brown like the water in Haiti
Yeah I'm Indian and I go to KD
Give me Scantron if you wanna test me
Bet your life on it if you wanna save me
Hazy, Crazy
I'm icy yet it's raining
Hate me, Pay me
Hop into Mercedes
I'm a nice guy I'm nice to the ladies
But we throw shade like 3 Slim Shadies
[Chorus: KingChad]
Slept two hours too late (checkmate)
Turned my grade from 80 to an 8 (to an 8)
Someone took my queen out on a date (on a date)
All these mumble rappers getting paid (checkmate)
All these other rappers getting hate (checkmate)
Sorry had to flex the red wraith (red wraith)
Brown is not our race it's now our fate (checkmate)
I just hit up Harvard called checkmate (checkmate, checkmate)
[Verse 3: MattHasRaps]
I live in a mansion while you live in a canopy
I be drinking Fiji water they be drinking Hennessey
I was drinking poison till it turned into my remedy
I got a lot of friends till they turn into my enemies
Generally
I don't get why people all ahead of me
Honestly
I think we should make up a new legacy
No I do not got Africa in my giant family tree
When I rest in peace remember me like John F Kennedy
Why y'all think I'm legendary
That ain't right vocabulary
Why y'all saying MattEatsRice
Titanic sank in January
Sank into a cemetery
I can't sing like Katy Perry
Why you all be on my tail and
Chasing me like Tom and Jerry
[Verse 4: Lil Shaan]
Started off tryna make 'em proud (make 'em proud)
Now they soaking us up like a cumulous cloud
Is a doctor what we vowed
Is a lawyer what's allowed
Yeah they told us to bow
And now they look at us like wow
I’m in my state, checkmate
Got a lotta weight on my plate (Just wait)
We started as pawns in this game
Now we are becoming the greats
And they be shouting our names
We spit fire then take aim
Adding fuel to the flame
Ya we strayed away
Now we’re dogs but not tame
Roof roof but I need a bone
Give us your interest to loan
You can hear it from my tone
From Titanic we’ve grown
As pawns we’ll find the throne
They carving our path
But It’s my life I will own (I will own)
Now what will it be (will it be?)
Go ahead make your plea
Let me count 1 to 3
Make your move and we’ll see (we'll see)
With no distraction and passion
You can excuse our lack of fashion
Cause a slide up of a rook
Is all that it took
Don’t need a prep book
Don’t give us that look
[Chorus: Lil Shaan]
Slept two hours too late (checkmate)
Turned my grade from 80 to an 8 (checkmate)
KingChad took his queen out on a date (checkmate)
All these mumble rappers getting paid (checkmate)
All these other rappers getting hate (checkmate)
Sorry I just flexed the red wraith (checkmate)
Brown is not our race it's now our fate (checkmate)
I just hit up Harvard called checkmate (checkmate, checkmate)
This ain't checkers, right?
Turn my headphones up a little bit
Let's go
KingChad on the beat, yuh
[Verse 1: KingChad]
Checkmate
That's a checkmate
Same thing
Unlike Plain Jane
I play brain games
Insane
Two different rappers preach two different things
No pain no gain
No chain no fame
Step up to the paint
Think they're gonna rise to fame, LeBron James
Till they crash in the skies like a damn airplane
But some ignorant rappers think that money can rain
All they say is Gang Gang
[Verse 2: MattHasRaps]
Throw a dime in the drain Tom Brady
All these eyes on me they be gazy
All these lies man they be lazy
I'ma slide on em till they faze me
Yeah I'm brown like the water in Haiti
Yeah I'm Indian and I go to KD
Give me Scantron if you wanna test me
Bet your life on it if you wanna save me
Hazy, Crazy
I'm icy yet it's raining
Hate me, Pay me
Hop into Mercedes
I'm a nice guy I'm nice to the ladies
But we throw shade like 3 Slim Shadies
[Chorus: KingChad]
Slept two hours too late (checkmate)
Turned my grade from 80 to an 8 (to an 8)
Someone took my queen out on a date (on a date)
All these mumble rappers getting paid (checkmate)
All these other rappers getting hate (checkmate)
Sorry had to flex the red wraith (red wraith)
Brown is not our race it's now our fate (checkmate)
I just hit up Harvard called checkmate (checkmate, checkmate)
[Verse 3: MattHasRaps]
I live in a mansion while you live in a canopy
I be drinking Fiji water they be drinking Hennessey
I was drinking poison till it turned into my remedy
I got a lot of friends till they turn into my enemies
Generally
I don't get why people all ahead of me
Honestly
I think we should make up a new legacy
No I do not got Africa in my giant family tree
When I rest in peace remember me like John F Kennedy
Why y'all think I'm legendary
That ain't right vocabulary
Why y'all saying MattEatsRice
Titanic sank in January
Sank into a cemetery
I can't sing like Katy Perry
Why you all be on my tail and
Chasing me like Tom and Jerry
[Verse 4: Lil Shaan]
Started off tryna make 'em proud (make 'em proud)
Now they soaking us up like a cumulous cloud
Is a doctor what we vowed
Is a lawyer what's allowed
Yeah they told us to bow
And now they look at us like wow
I’m in my state, checkmate
Got a lotta weight on my plate (Just wait)
We started as pawns in this game
Now we are becoming the greats
And they be shouting our names
We spit fire then take aim
Adding fuel to the flame
Ya we strayed away
Now we’re dogs but not tame
Roof roof but I need a bone
Give us your interest to loan
You can hear it from my tone
From Titanic we’ve grown
As pawns we’ll find the throne
They carving our path
But It’s my life I will own (I will own)
Now what will it be (will it be?)
Go ahead make your plea
Let me count 1 to 3
Make your move and we’ll see (we'll see)
With no distraction and passion
You can excuse our lack of fashion
Cause a slide up of a rook
Is all that it took
Don’t need a prep book
Don’t give us that look
[Chorus: Lil Shaan]
Slept two hours too late (checkmate)
Turned my grade from 80 to an 8 (checkmate)
KingChad took his queen out on a date (checkmate)
All these mumble rappers getting paid (checkmate)
All these other rappers getting hate (checkmate)
Sorry I just flexed the red wraith (checkmate)
Brown is not our race it's now our fate (checkmate)
I just hit up Harvard called checkmate (checkmate, checkmate)