Checkmate Lyrics
Knights move four spaces in place of bishops east of me
Communicate with pawns on a telepathic frequency
Smash knights with mics in militant mental fights, it seems to be
An everlasting battle on the 64-block geometric metal battlefield
The sword of my rook, will shatter your feeble battle shield
I witness a bishop that'll wield his mystic sword
And slaughter every player who inhabits my chessboard
Knight to Queen's three, I slice through MCs
Seize the rook's towers and the bishop's ministries
Minstrels sing songs and mimic me, but cease to live instantly
Hidden deep within me is a sinister entity
Intentions of tension, tense in ten tents
Where kings rest in beds with queens' breasts exposed for sex
To decrease or release tension, tends to tense men
When traitorous defenses fence in kings men
I quickly push the whore up from off of me
Trying to understand this battle of psychology
Psychotic, I slice optics of cyclops
And wander with warlocks through Indian corn stalks
Chessboard blocks become blood-red
Blood clots block brains and lock the thoughts of pawns in shock
I shot crossbows and toss flows across moats
To pierce the archer's armor armed with arrows
Pole points from elbows, where joints join with marrow
To maim, the tip of the arrows lit with flame
Checkmate, the death of your king ends the game
About
This track appears as number 22 on Album “Where’s Your Album?‘ and runs for 1 minute and 18 seconds. P
The album was released in 2004 under the label “Demigodz Entertainment” which reflects his affiliation rap group Demigodz.
The album “Where’s Your Album” is compiled with tracks related prominently to every day life. “Checkmate” relates to the present moment while taking the listener back to an almost medieval era. By doing this Apathy is offering us insight to is rap strategy in both a recording and battle environment. The darkness in him that brings out his lyricism good enough to utilize in his strategy.Finally this track also sums up how seriously Apathy takes rap/hip hop and his career that he would compare it to a war like event, a war of which he strives to win against the industry and against himself. This concept and Apathy’s perspective on the track is relative to historical times so as to demonstrate how infinite his art is and a sense of “old soul” or “before his time”.
After 21 tracks I believe Apathy still felt unsatisfied, almost as if listeners and the industry still did not know how much he cared about his art. By ending with “Checkmate” Apathy punches out exactly how he feels and it has a sense of sincerity and certainly demonstrates his insatiable hunger, intellect and lyricism. Being such a short track and packed with power Apathy certainly left his listeners stunned and his album on a high note.
The sample used for the beat on this track originates from song titled “Dancing With The Moonlit Knight” which was released in 1973 as track 1 on album titled “Selling England By The Pound' by progressive rock band GENESIS. The original song is approx 8 minutes long, undeniably intellectual and packed with wordplay which is the ideal recipe to inspire other artists. Ironically this original song is the first and the longest track on the album.
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- 11.Trust
- 12.Different Song
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- 15.Can’t Nobody
- 20.The Janitor
- 22.Checkmate
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