[Intro]
In the year of 1994
A motherfucking earthquake just hit New York
You know what I'm saying
Earthquake is here
Straight up

[Verse 1: Earthquake]
I'm wrecking n***as like pencils on a piece of white paper
When I fuck up I can just use my eraser
Deck em, rub em' out and have much clout
Like Damon Wayans Bruce Willis on the Last Boy Scout
My pockets rollin' thick like a milkshake
I overflow the party cuz that shit says earthquake
I get on stage, start to rake em, I bake em
I use A-1 sauce and eat that n***a like steak-um
Earthquake is up when they come to [?]
I eat em' out like stuffin' on my microwave oven
I get the nack when I pack
A 3-5-7 in my sack
Cuz I'm short of a new jack
Aw heck, here's a peck on yo' cheek
I fold em and roll em' and dunk em like Dominique
I get the inspiration
When I see the girls in jubilation
Racing to my place and
Wanna touch my face
As I start to pace and race
Brush em' off like toothpaste
So think twice if you wanna step to this miss
I'll have ya burnin' like [?]
Hey up ya can't leave without no say so
If we were in Cuba, I'd take all ya pesos
So giddyup, this is earthquake on ya stereo
Fuck with me I leave ya soggy like some cereal
I'm gone, checkmate
[Hook]
Make a move like chess then checkmate
I make a move like check, n***a then checkmate
Move like chess, n***a, checkmate
I make a move like chess, n***a
Then I yell checkmate

[Verse 2: MF Doom]
Back as the invisible killer up on yo' screen
So get yo neck thumpin' between my guillotine
Checking magazine for X the Unseen
Mad n***as know what I mean
I come clean as a whistle
Or filthy as my last pistol
Mine get you now- BUST
I get down to the bristle and burn em'
Like from up under the mistletoe
With the ho and she ain't even
Nasty like a flow- "check!"
Swish, i'm the suspicious, vicious X
So shit, i'm on a mish to gut this punk like a...
Yo probably wish I say like a fish
But busta how I front punk, I gut em' like a blunt
And my middle finger, index
And thumb, a bum from a bum n***a
A son of a gun
Squeeze the trigger I let looser
Looser than the bullshit ya used to
I jam like a TEC, I am the slut seducer
Master of the zero harasser of yo' zip code
Disaster to the superhero, Flipmode
In 93' I heard mad emcees that annoyed me
Like DTs on CDs
Checkmate
[Chorus]
I make a move like that, then I yell checkmate
Makin' moves like chess, n***a, checkmate
I make a move like chess n***a then I yell checkmate
Makin' moves like chess, kid, checkmate

[Verse 3: Earthquake]
I cremate, dominate, then sell some lemonade
10 cents a cup, little kid, then I terminate
Like Arnold Schwarzenegger, I am a little bigger
Ten shades darker than that with the itchy finger
My whole game is a [?]
I kill a n***a dead with some lead and put my head on a stack of bibles
I swear to God I didn't do it
It's just another day of my life [?] i'm sick and you n***as knew it
I'm crossing criss 'cause i'm pissed, time to diss
[?] for doing a motherfucking twist
I hid the body now it's over
The cops are havin' a really bad time finding that ass like a four leaf clover
So before you check me and try to do me
Quick, I kick your ass just like Hong Kong Phooey (CHIKA)

[Outro]
Checkmate
I just crossed the board and I got checkmate
I just crossed the board and I got checkmate
I just crossed the board and I got checkmate
I got the checkmate I got the checkmate