Checkmate is from the streets of Miami,Fl. He got his name from his friends who say "Everything he do is strategetic...it's like he treats life like a game of Chess" Checkmate grew up listening to the southern pioneers like Geto Boys, Eightball & MJG, and JT Money at the tender age of 8. And it was there where he found his love from music he recalls "From that point hip-hop became the soundtrack to my life" At the age of 13 he wrote his rhyme and spit it to a friend it was then after that he was given the name "Checkmate". After that day he dedicated every single second of his life music. "Everyday I write a verse. Even if I didn't do nothing but eat cereal and take a shit...when i write it you gon like it" he says.
