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  1. Tracks
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  3. Operation: Doomsday
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MF DOOM

Operation: Greenbacks

Release date: 19th October 1999

From Operation: Doomsday
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About This Track

MF DOOM and Megalon trade verses over a sample from Isaac Hayes, constructing a track that moves between the seductive pull of money and the compromises it demands. The chorus loops its mantra, 'M-O-N-E-Y', against the refrain that it "never did a thing for L-O-V-I-N", setting up the song's central tension: the gap between material hunger and everything else that matters. DOOM's first verse is a masterclass in deflection and boast. He sidesteps a lover's demands with the casual cruelty of someone who has learned to treat intimacy as just another transaction, then pivots to his own superiority as an MC, claiming dominion over "microphone, beats, or the wheels-of-steel". Megalon follows with a harder edge, rapping from the perspective of someone for whom the drug trade is survival, not choice, the verses darkening as they progress toward violence and the constant threat of arrest. The track is a scathing portrait of greed and its casualties, whether in the music industry or on the street. It does not moralise; it simply lets the characters speak, their boasts and justifications doing the work of critique.

"Operation: Greenbacks" is a track by MF DOOM, from the album Operation: Doomsday, released 19th October 1999. Full lyrics are available below.

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Operation: Greenbacks

[Chorus: King Geedorah, Megalon and samples]

M-O-N-E-Y

Yeah, it's good to see you back

Never did a thing for L-O-V-I-N

It's good to be seen back

Greenbacks, greenbacks, greenbacks, greenbacks

Green stacks, greenbacks, mean stacks

Never understand what people's heads are in

Mean stacks, greenbacks

Ask me what I need

[Verse 1: King Geedorah]

A fly tramp, that's what she called me

'Cause I don't wear no Stetson hats like Paul C

As y'all see, who give a fuck? Who know what is it?

These styles will be flipped to the absolute exquisite

It's like a blizzard, soon as I got home from ATL

Looked into my baby's face, my boo was like, "Well!

I know your types of clientele! Thoughts, needs"

As I held her firmly, yet gentle as the soft sea

She said, "The one with the horse weave? The pretty one?

Or crazy, had to touch the tattoo through the short sleeve?

Which one you want?" I'm like, "If there was comp?

Fuck around, a nigga like me probably run up in all three!"

King Geedorah what they call me, either caesar or baldy

Probably half-moon since last y'all saw me

On the D-low, I slaughter solo MCs, they paper-thin

In they Polo, Nautica, or DK men

Amen! It's funny how significance make a difference

Notice parables of three in every other inference

For instance: "Who wants to battle? On the real?

Choose your weapon: microphone, beats, or the wheels-of-steel"

I own a crown in all three for getting down without a doubt

I'd like to give a extra special shout out to Jet Jaguar, the sun, moon, and star

The Monster Island Czars, y'all know who you are

Get that–

[Chorus]

M-O-N-E-Y

Never did a thing for L-O-V-I-N

[Break]

King Geedorah is in the United States

I know!

[Verse 2: Megalon]

Coming straight from the black lungs

I rip tracks for all players that pack guns

Stack ones in packs, done and doing back-to-back runs

To my peeps that close, so's ya' knows what's up

Y'all know the dough's quick, hoes that mess with 5-O shrimp like, "What?"

Like they wanna shmoosh us, just to packing the pushers

I'm packing gat then bust a cap at po-po

If they catch us and try to push us

Since when a MINY nigga don't be taking no shit?

I be that drug dealing nigga that be fucking your bitch!

[Verse 3: King Geedorah]

What a fella! Like Salt, Pepa, Spinderella

I came to spark the deaf, dumb and blind like Helen Keller

If I'm not with George of the Jungle, if he not with Stella

Or either Priscilla, I'm doing dips on Godzilla

Though y'all know he don't play, right?

TNT throws a nigga out a moving van in broad daylight

And he was shackled by hands and feet

Then they say he tried to escape, once his face scraped the concrete

Near the curb on Monster Island, 103 Street

Where brothers run the risk of getting swallowed once the Beast eat

I'd rather lay in the cut, collect cash pay

Only TNT I see is Gilligan's castaway

With Mary Jane and Ginger

Oh, from which you spent the night by accident, I creep like a ninja

When the mack is bent, who can give one fuck?

Get bucked, get broke up like three-piece nun-chucks

Y'all sun struck, sick to they head-piece

Three-headed beast brings the drama to a dead cease

[Break]

Sick to they head-piece

(Get that money, god)

Sick to they head-piece

(Get that money, god)

(Get that money, god)

(Get that money, god)

Greenbacks... the meanest green stacks

[Chorus]

But M-O-N-E-Y never did a thing for L-O-V-I-N

I'll never understand what people's heads are in, oh

Ask me what I need

[Produced by Metal Fingers]

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Track details

From Operation: Doomsday

1999
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Album
Operation: Doomsday
Operation: Doomsday
MF DOOM
Release year
1999
  1. —? (Question Mark)
  2. —Doom, Are You Awake? (Skit)
  3. —Back in the Days (Skit)
  4. —The Hands of Doom (Skit)
  5. —Gas Drawls
  6. —Doomsday
  7. —Hey!
  8. —Go With the Flow
  9. —Operation: Greenbacks
  10. —Red and Gold
  11. —The Finest
  12. —The Mystery of Doom (Skit)
  13. —Tick, Tick...
  14. —Dead Bent
  15. —Who You Think I Am?
  16. —The M.I.C.
  17. —Hero vs. Villain (Epilogue)
  18. —Rhymes Like Dimes
  19. —The Time We Faced Doom (Skit)

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
King Geedorah, Megalon, Tommy Gunn
Producer
Metal Fingers
Executive Producer
Big Lou, Bobbito, MF DOOM, MF Grimm
Mastering Engineer
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