[Intro: Pete Rock]

Ah, excuse me everybody, please listen up

I do need your attention

Ladies and gentlemen (Set it off, man)

Check— Check me out— Check— Check— Check me out—

Check— Check— Check— Check me out— Check me out— (AZ, uh)

Check— Check me— Check— (Uh)

Ladies and gentlemen

Check— Check me— Ch— Ch— Check me—

Check— Check— Check me out, y'all

[Verse 1: AZ & Pete Rock]

This is grown man elegance mixed with ghetto allure

Fresh pair of Constructs and Louis store couture

No fucks, was a juvie, poor to the core (Uh)

Rose up from the Uzi all in the hall (Woo)

Bela Lugosi since the era of Kool G

Upset for lettin' up, but they never could lose me

Gucci, could see it all inside of my face

A nigga straight, this is fate, got phenomenal taste

The honorable great young Jedi (Jedi), bomb on the red eye (Uh)

Words I live by is off the tongue of my abuela (Uh-huh)

Shall I show and prove how I move? (Move)

It's hard to be cool when you a sparklin' jewel (Uh)

Check it, you either get it in or disconnect it

This is bigger than a record, tryin' to remake "The Message" (Ow)

Electric, hittin' every hood that I could (Could)

Those who understood, understand a nigga good (Uh-huh)

[Chorus]

Check— Check— Check— Check me out— Check me out—

Check— Check me— Check—

Ladies and gentlemen

Check— Check me— Ch— Check— Check me—

Ch— Check— Check me out, y'all

Check— Check— Check— Check me out— Check me out—

Check— Check me— Check—

Ladies and gentlemen

Check— Check me— Ch— Check— Check me—

Ch— Ch— Check me out, y'all

[Verse 2: AZ & Pete Rock]

Jotted in black ink, it's logic the math link

I'm a clash of a scientist and how a psychopath thinks

My higher half is a sphinx, my prior past is a jinx

It's why I graphically sit and let the factual sink (Woo)

City blocks is sizzlin', gunshots be riddlin'

Cops, opps and props, sky rock the adrenaline (Uh-huh)

Ya illin' and all you chasin' is crime (Uh)

Scrapin' up and gibberin', all you facin' is time (Time)

C74, what's a felony for?

You yellin' work you was sellin', what you tellin' me for? (What you tellin' me for?)

Smell of Dior, I'm chillin', could never get caught in my feelings

Love villains, but I talk to the childrens, they need it

Jail, death or a paraplegic

If you blessed by thirty and breathin', you succeeded (Uh)

Strategic, live from the top of New York

Alone all in my zone when I'm lockin' in thought (In thought)

[Outro: Pete Rock]

Check— Check— Check— Check me out— Check me out—

Check— Check me— Check—

Ladies and gentlemen

Check— Check me— Ch— Check— Check me—

Ch— Check— Check me out, y'all

Check— Check— Check— Check me out— Check me out—

Check— Check me— Check—

Check— Check— Check me— Check— Check— Check me out—

Check— Check me— Check me out—

Check— Check— Check— Check me out— Check me out—

Check— Check me— Check—

Ladies and gentlemen

Check— Check— Check me— (East New York)

Check— Check— Check me—

Check— Check— Check me out, y'all (AZ, Pete Rock)

C'mon

Brooklyn

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