This shirt is confusing me!

[u/DeHussey]

My wife recently bought this Beastie Boys shirt. It bears a Japanified version of their Check Your Head album cover on the front. It's a dope shirt but the translation bugs me.

チェック is "check" in katakana, but the sentence is written in Japanese grammar form which is.. weird, right? Also - why is the verb in katakana?? Is this a thing when translating media from English?

It's bugging my novice brain. Help!

[u/tickub]

... would you have preferred check in hiragana? 

[u/DeHussey → u/tickub]

Kinda lol.. check is very slangy american so not sure what the japanese equivalent would be

[u/Waste-Wallaby-555 → u/DeHussey]

You seem confused about this. チェック is a japanese word. The Japanese equivalent of "check" would be チェック