Check Yo Self

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“Check Yo Self”
“Check Yo Self” cover
Single by Ice Cube
from the album The Predator
Released August, 1993
Format 12" single
Recorded 1992
Genre Rap, G-Funk
Length 3:42
Label Priority
53816
Writer(s) O. Jackson
Producer Ice Cube
Ice Cube singles chronology
"It Was A Good Day"
(1992)		 "Check Yo Self"
(1993)		 "You Know How We Do It"
(1994)

"Check Yo Self" is the second hit single from Ice Cube's Predator album released in August 1993 featuring New York rappers Das EFX. It topped the Billboard R&B chart and reached number 20 on the Pop chart. The song is also featured on Ice Cube's Bootlegs & B-Sides album. The music video continues on where "It Was A Good Day" left off. The lyrics include the title phrase "check yo self before you wreck yo self," a cautionary warning to stay out of trouble.

In the video Ice Cube is in an L.A. County jail, presumably for murder.

In the song, Ice Cube attacks both House of Pain with the line (No, I'm not a sucker, sitting in the House of Pain/And no, I'm not the butler, I'll cut ya) and MC Hammer with (You say you can't touch this/And I wouldn't touch ya, punk motherfucker).[citation needed]

He also says the infamous line "Shotgun shells are bad for ya health!"

There are two versions of the song, the normal original funky version which was not theatrically released on the music video but the other version which was a remix using the same beat as Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" done in Funk.

In 2004 Check Yo Self appeared on popular videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on West Coast hip hop radio station Radio Los Santos. It was later released on Ice Cube's Greatest Hits album.

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Preceded by
"Lately" by Jodeci		 Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number one single
August 7, 1993		 Succeeded by
"Lately" by Jodeci
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