Bryan Birdman

May 6th, 2011 | 3:40 pm | Video Re-Edits | 8 Comments

This initially started out as a stupid Twitter joke, but after several people requested that it become a reality, we made it happen. After all, it’s only about two-and-a-half minutes of footage once you condense the whole eight-minute Herman Stay Gold B-Sides segment, so it wasn’t the lengthiest of tasks.

Emerica seems to have an extensive (and unfortunate) aversion to using songs that are a part of the Cash Money Records catalog, so we made this to try and fabricate an alternate reality where they embrace music made under Baby and Slim’s financial supervision. Like everything else we have tried to edit in the past four months, the first audio file to be on the timeline was Young Chris’ masterpiece, “Racks on Racks on Racks” (or simply “Racks” for short, but it’s less satisfying saying it just one time), but that song has proven itself immensely difficult to edit skateboarding to. Hopefully we figure it out before the much unanticipated Quartersnacks “Beginning of Summer / Memorial Day Weekend” clip.

Have a good weekend. Follow Quartersnacks on Twitter, ask us to re-edit more stuff to semi-obscure Cash Money songs, and maybe your dream will come true.

Alternate YouTube link: We sittin’ on them alligators

Previous Re-Edit Editions: Quim Cardona, Eli Reed, Mind Field

Quim Cardona: NY Revisited & re-edited

March 8th, 2011 | 11:14 am | Video Re-Edits | 5 Comments

Falling into the same “sitting around on a Final Cut timeline from the dead of winter” category that last month’s most most fashionable clip ever was a part of, this is another reworking of old footage. In this case, it’s really old footage, originating from R.B. Umali’s NY Revisited compilation that was released around 2004-2005, spanning two DVD volumes (which were in somewhat of a limited run) and about three years (1995-1997.) The winter may have provided the time to sit there and throw this on a timeline, but the inspiration came from the Chrome Ball Incident’s interview with Quim, and the realization that despite his clear allegiance to camo pants, Quim never really had a full-on New York skate part in the nineties. A lot of this footage wasn’t exactly “unreleased” prior to when Revisited came out, but was still reserved for more montage-oritented outings. While this is sure as hell no Non-Fiction, it is somewhat of an attempt at getting on that Manolo archival program (Although nobody can really compete with what that dude does…) and filling the void in a coherent way. Plus, this guy’s highly unorthodox approach to just about everything — from doing two frontside 5050s on ledges in the same line, to using garbage bags as makeshift skate obstacles, to doing nollies onto ledges for no reason whatsoever — should be an inspiration to everyone that enjoys riding a skateboard.

And while typical protocol around here is editing things to Travis Porter, Young Jeezy, and all else intended for gentlemen’s cabarets situated below the Mason-Dixon line, we went the more tasteful route of channeling things actually released at a time and in a region synonymous with when the footage was filmed. So, our apologies go to our “core” fanbase. Even further apologies to purists who know that if this was actually released in 1997, it would be edited to some wild Jamaican conga drum voodoo music most commonly listened to by experimental yoga groups.

The real question is: What’s going on with Revisited Volume 3?

YouTube link here.

Related: Here’s another Revisited edit someone put together in 2009 after dropping out of Cooley High.

The Imagination of Re-Imaginations

November 24th, 2009 | 2:04 am | Video Re-Edits | 9 Comments

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Certain instances in life need re-imagination. 50 re-imaged the possibilities of quarter water, because he sold it in bottles for two bucks. I, on the other hand, re-imaged Eli Reed’s Zoo York part in an authorized re-edit at the helm of one of the finer late-90s/early-2000s rap personalities, also about 38% responsible (Tragedy and Capone take in a solid 31% each) for the greatness of a certain Queens rap record mentioned here a week ago. According to You Tube commenter “colbystr0ng,” it is edited to “the worst song ever.” Clearly, I should have opted for something more skate video friendly and informed by year-end lists of cool music blogs written by guys from the Northwest living in Greenpoint with poor bathing habits, as opposed to canonized classics of my early adolescence when I was discovering the beauty of ignorant hip-hop.

So, take it for what you will, because if you’re opposed to this man’s brilliant words, well, then, you probably should not be on Quarter Snacks.

And remember — “Well, when you light a candle, that’s saluting your dead peoples. Light a Candle.
And then, what’s the English Channel? It’s a big pool of water and it’s overseas. So I’m
trying to say that when I light a candle I’m that strong that I can run laps around the
English Channel. And Neptunes [producers featured prominently on Noreaga’s two solo
albums] have a cocker spaniel. ‘Cause they homo.”

Clip links after the jump.

Eli Reed – State of Mind Re-Edit [Vimeo Link]
Eli Reed – State of Mind Re-Edit [Youtube Link]
(I can provide a Quicktime link if anyone’s interested but Quicktime kind of seems like a dead medium.)

Mind Field: The Quarter Snacks Edit

March 12th, 2009 | 4:30 pm | Video Re-Edits | 57 Comments

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After many rave reviews following the circulation of the video on DVD-Rs, it is finally on the internet by popular demand.

Download from Mega Upload You need to sit through about 45-seconds before the link for a regular download appears, but it should download just as quickly as the Sendspace link.

I cannot put it up on Youtube because the majority of the music on it is copyrighted by Warner Brothers, who essentially has Youtube and Google video in a chokehold and disables the audio on pretty much any remotely popular song. And since I am not going to use the old excuse of “boo hoo rights are hard to get so I’m just going to edit the whole video to Animal Collective and singlehandedly the worst rap song ever since they are so down for the cause but at the same time put half of my audience to sleep,” I opted for other, lesser known hosting sites. Once again, you are much better off simply downloading the Quicktime file of the video from the links above.

But if you insist, an embedded video is after the jump.

I Used to Get it in Ohio (What Up Dayton!)

March 6th, 2009 | 12:23 am | Video Re-Edits | Comments Off

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Few clowns was hatin’. Moved my pounds to Dayton.

Coming soon.