Checkers or Chess - Spose

Ayup

Cause I got too much to lose to play checkers

So I play chess

Haven’t took my last piece, not yet

You win a battle, watch me win a war

Bet it 'til my underdrawers

Watch me do some shit nobody’s ever done before

Bro, follow my moves

I paid every invoice, paid all of my dues

Plus the product quality too

My word more bond than James

Authority my penmanship

Short-term consequence for long-term benefit

I’m just trying to be better than yesterday

Better than they estimate

Cheddar from my escapades

Competitor to every name

John Lennon to Eminem

Eddie Vedder to Etta James

Bro, this is not an accident

I’m practicing to turn it to a ring

I’m tryna take a pawn and maybe turn it to a king

You should pay attention, maybe you could learn a thing

I called up my future and my future went cha-ching

Stop playing checkers, think about the past

Worried bout others, you need to look in mirrored glass

And see if you can trust the fuckin' person looking back

And be three moves ahead of that cat, now that’s the

So what you playing, checkers or chess?

You striving for more or you settle for less?

Checkers is for kids, this is a grown-up thing

Do you hate it that I made it from a pawn to a king?

So what you playing, checkers or chess?

You striving for more or you settle for less?

You trying to whisper or you trying to sing?

Do you hate it that I made it from a pawn to a king?

You argue with the village idiot in Twitter beef

You focused on a single note and never wrote a symphony

I’ll make it clear like the filter in the pool

I’ll put it down until my crown round, gilded and bejewled

You didn’t plot, you got the vision like a pigeon got

You short-sighted like a ticket from a midget cop

You got excuses like pain got bruises

Like the game got name drops and Maine got mooses

I’d pass you the ball, but you’d stall like a restroom

That S dude chess moves since I was a test tube

Born a pawn, but I been on a mission

Staring in the mirror at my only competition

Knowing you could have the money stacked like vocals in the chorus

But be too into the trees that you didn’t see the forest

You’re like, kid sisters, fake imposters

Ignore the big picture like you, hate the Oscars, but

We can’t save everyone, can we?

Playing checkers not good for your family

You should quit, I second that

This is not a checkers match

I record, then export, from my chessboard

So what you playing, checkers or chess?

You striving for more or you settle for less?

Checkers is for kids, this is a grown-up thing

Do you hate it that I made it from a pawn to a king?

So what you playing, checkers or chess?

You striving for more or you settle for less?

You trying to whisper or you trying to sing?

Do you hate it that I made it from a pawn to a king?

Yeah, that king shit

to the king

Hands in the sky

Now kiss the fuckin' ring

Whatchu playing?

I sacrifice my knights to keep my king upon the board

Good luck with your life

Nah seriously, good luck man