Checmate Songtext
von Jabee

Statik Selektah
It′s Lil B (it's Lil B)
Statik Selektah (Statik Selektah), I see you (I see you)
Shout out OKC (shout out OKC)
It′s Lil B (it's Lil B)
I know that Based (I know that Based) God is not fair (God is not fair)
What I'm doing (what I′m doing) (yeah, yeah)

Yeah, young, dumb, and dangerous
On my dead homies, call it angel spit
I′m trying to fight the power like I'm Chuck D
I put that on my mommy, you can trust me
A full-course meal is just bread and wine
Break bread with my homies, it′s how God design
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist
Family′s like a million bucks when you homeless


I ain't trying to die ′til I really live
Some people had to die so I could really live
You say you real, so you feel this?
You only real to who you real with
Fake - always bragging 'bout they realness
Saying grace with the Devil on they plate, yeah
Probably kissing Judas in the face
Some homies lift you up, some try to keep you in your place

I'm staying focused on the background
I gotta look behind my back, I′m moving back now (back now)
I gotta go back in town
- say I′m moving forward, but I'm back down (right) (down, right)
Pain of life is the pains of life (pains of life)
I′m moving forward, I'm just moving right (uh)
Said, "-", I ain′t gon' go left (gon′ go left)
I'm moving straight (moving straight), checkmate (checkmate)

I'm trying to stay as positive as possible
Sometimes you feel like you′re running out of options, though
I made a promise to that - in the mirror
Now I illustrate my picture just a little bit clearer
As a kid, I didn′t have it
But if you offer me the opportunity to grab it, I wanted it
Not so I can flaunt it, just so I can hide it in my basement
And take it out occasionally, appreciate it


As a grown - man, now I know that's a scam
Look at all these records, I could have collected land
Trying to give my family a handful of sand
But we were busy making memories instead of plans
And it kinda seems as if we built a lot from a little
Put all of those ingredients on top of the griddle
Let me simmer down and focus on the sound
Of the city bus pushing through the snow that′s on the ground (ah)

I'm staying focused on the background
I gotta look behind my back, I′m moving back now (back now)
I gotta go back in town
- say I'm moving forward, but I′m back down (right) (down, right)
Pain of life is the pains of life (pains of life)
I'm moving forward, I'm just moving right (uh)
Said, "-", I ain′t gon′ go left (gon' go left)
I′m moving straight (moving straight), checkmate (checkmate)

Said, "-", I ain't gon′ go left (gon' go left)
I′m moving straight (moving straight)
Autopilot, when I move in check (I move in check)
Checkmate (checkmate), we ain't playing chess (playing chess)
It's Lil B (it′s Lil B) (yes, yes)