"Put Your Quarter Up"

tommyb · Post by **tommyb** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:41 pm

Three of my favorite hip-hop MC's did a song together kind of about arcades, Slug from Atmosphere, Aesop Rock and MF Doom of DangerDoom fame.

Put Your Quarter Up by GZA, Slug, Aesop Rock and MF DOOM

"Trapped in a deadly video game..." [GZA] 7x
"...with just one man" [GZA]

[Slug]

Put your quarter up
I got first (Sluggo)
And I'm the type of customer that orders the works
Not the same as any, I run the game of plenty
I buy my nickels from a dime who goes by the name of Penny
The Last Starfighter searching for the Starfucker
The drunk parallel parker, thank God for car bumpers
Another day, shot in the head and buried
While your wifey tries to convince me that she shouldn't have got married
From the Galagga bugs to the amateur thugs
To the punk rock chicks that can't handle my hugs
I'll be standin upon the web, born out of a thought
Where the spider makes her bed out of the carcasses she caught
Aiyyo she's got that good hair, me I got dandruff
She wears a smile, and me I wear handcuffs
Yo wait a minute savior, how about a little truth
You couldn't save yourself if you had a cape and a phonebooth
The roof is on fire, the floor is underwater
The fish ignored the bait and ate the bobber
And as God hovers up above the highway and the chopper
I'm down here writing songs for her daughter (Is that your quarter?)

"Trapped in a deadly video game..." [3x]

"...with just one man"

[Aesop Rock]

Put your quarter up, brother
My underhanded summerjam escape with a free game in my back pocket
The ego and the muddy gear lept clear off the concrete valley
To murder silhouettes with a budget that have me bummin cigarettes
My soul stuck in a mudpit absorbing anchors
With a wash ink water stick and bop great venoms
Caught it at the dog door by a sideways phantom
With a swift attitude problem
Knuckling up with a carbon-based common guarding goblin
I'm drowsy
Who drifted by the lousy Virgin Mary night light luminants
That blew a kiss to sin
Witness that count me but just couldn't afford the bounty
I'll do the deed myself before the second leaping sheep
Even got counted
Multiple tasking, drastic unsocialable captain gasping
Jake asked me to grate bashing open the plastic backspins
Strapped with a plague and a cocktail napkin
Wrapped in oragami dragon fashion
Flashed in a effort to smash your pattern
Better magnanimous
To sail a little on this ancient foundation
They found na-tions running bases for nickeltips
Coordinate the zoning and the speed is trickle drip south
I'll skip town once these upright citizens sit down

"Trapped in a deadly video game
"

[MF Doom]

Uh, yo I go next, put your quarter up
For bets, put your daughter up
MF is sure to corrupt
Not to be confused with the fake ?fly raw sound?
Still the one who used to take your high score down
With more rhymes and germs to spit, more carry
As I fly through the air like Pitfall Harry
Shit y'al fairies take a loss like Swolodon
This goes out to man, woman, and child from Robotron
Before the end, I save the world like the Fiddler
It's no for curling up to Hurl for my bender
Like back when you last five member went to ween
More likely on like twenty rounds of Centipede
If it go fast or slow, no mattering
The flow down pat like the whole Acro pattern
Those need to learn the technique, take heed note
And switch like Spy Hunter when he *psst* to the speedboat

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:54 pm

great track.....why cant i remember which album this is off.....lolz

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:55 pm

I love MF doom and specially Aesop rock. Will have to grab this track and hear if for myself

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:57 pm

Meep! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRiS0lEL ... re=related

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:59 pm

im pretty sure its off the new aesop rock album

I'm Alec · Post by **I'm Alec** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:09 pm

I've never heard this one. Gotta get this MP3 when I get home from work. <3 all 3 of those rappers.

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:24 pm

im almost positive thats its off aesop rocks new album....its not off GZA's new one(protools) and im pretty sure its not on atmosphere's new one...

and ya.....all good mc's....although slug is a bit to emo at times....stfu about your ex-g/f already

.....GZA's new album is dope....aesops isnt as good as his older stuff...but still great

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:26 pm

PUT MY MONEY DOWN PUT MY MONEY DOWN PUT MY MONEY DOWN PUT MY MONEY DOWN

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:33 pm

How anyone can listen to this for longer then 10 seconds is beyond me....

RGC · Post by **RGC** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:40 pm

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:21 pm

Doom had the only good verse.

If you got a boner over this track enough to make a thread about it then you'll cum over this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_owLgOBTng

From Del's Both Sides of the Brain. Sega fans will especially love it.
Best part is when they call out Bernie Stolar.

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:30 pm

WTF is with that beat in the first song, it's so terrible.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:32 pm

i once made love to a bbc micro

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:57 pm

jpj wrote:i once made love to a bbc micro

Half man half machine! whats does it mean what does it meeeeeaaan?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygN8H3kI1qE

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:03 pm

szycag wrote:Doom had the only good verse.

If you got a boner over this track enough to make a thread about it then you'll cum over this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_owLgOBTng

From Del's Both Sides of the Brain. Sega fans will especially love it.
Best part is when they call out Bernie Stolar.

I came

tommyb · Post by **tommyb** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:38 pm

Lol Del is such a joke. His flows are so broke. Not to mention his beats are laughably horrendous.

Its all about Aesop, Doomtree, One.Be.Lo, Sims, Can Ox and Big L

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:51 pm

Hah, that Del song is excellent. I love when he starts talking about imports

The beat is dope, but what do you expect, it's capcom.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:58 pm

ok
i'm not gonna get into a favorite mcs argument on shmups forum
cannibal ox - cold vein was amazing, but the solo vast aire stuff is so forgettable. i don't even keep up with hiphop anymore just because people go crazy for flows and stuff with lyrics that don't say anything to me really, beats that aren't layered at all and don't switch it up. my ideal hiphop album is probably madvillain, something that plays mood over cadence