Panamanian born, South Texas raised artist, ChessNotCheckers, has been on the rise since early 2021 following a SXSW performance invite after Chess’ track Like Dis - Extended displayed the unique diversity in flow & pitch that Chess offers. Coming into mid 2023, Chess has taken the underground melodic rap scene by storm with having 3 video snippets surpassing 1 million + views showing what is the future of Texas rap that ChessNotCheckers will be bringing. Receiving nods from artist such as Kota the Friend, Dizzy Wright & ZF’s Bari , the future of Chess is very promising with nothing but passion & work ethic pushing him to only continue to get better 🍀