The Check In Lyrics

Viva Cristo Rey

Yeah Thank you Jesus

Thank You Mary

Thank You Joseph

Yeah Oh yeah JL

Mid life checkin in As if I knew when it all ends

So many sins with residue resurfacing

Flashbacks of night club fights and dizzy nights

Checking IDs at the door

Strapped for war with a flashlight

Tampa Heights Ybor city

Don't look quite the same They made it all pretty

Now my mom's block littered with rental bikes and scooters

Back then the news said I was the shooter

The Crime scene tape around the house & I just wanted out

SWAT Team waiting to pounce Got Dirt in up my mouth

Shackled… for chasing country boy fun

But these days they go demon time for clout ..man what you talkin bout

I would see them bracelets a few more times

The smiling altar boy … committed a few more crimes

Maybe a lot. got popped for that gun that was hot

Stacking dirty money in my G-Unit Shoe Box

Maaaan just an urban child sold the same story

Get rich while dying fast leaving ya soul sordid

So Morbid these days sin on display we record it

Gruesome news stops ya scroll we just report it

Internalizing broken commandments with dead eyes

We all got strikes against us … it's no surprise

But African American Plus an Ancient Faith

Equals a unique loneliness in this race

For the crown they spat on his face and laid him down

On a tool of torture so that we could be found Yeah

But the night before the sacrifice

He would give us the proof of his everlasting life

A pillar of truth to defeat temptation and vice

He said He's real food still so many roll the dice

Binging on dopamine pursuits losing our sight

Goin out of our way to call the wrong things right

And check it While the shock of his slaughter was still fresh

He gifted us another pillar during his death

A creature so special and holy, abundantly blessed

A handmaid full of grace above the rest

Serpents crushed by her heel they can't even touch

Her children see the star of the sea when the waters' rough

As for Me when catastrophe is on the cusp

I'll stay anchored on those pillars cause Lord knows thats enough

Thats whats up