One Beer (Madvillain song)

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"One Beer"
One Beer Madvillain.png
Single by Madvillain
from the album Mm..Food
Released30 March 2004
GenreAlternative hip hop
Length2:51 (single version)
4:19 (album version)
2:13 (video version)
LabelStones Throw
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Madlib
Madvillain singles chronology
"All Caps"
(2004) 		"One Beer"
(2004) 		"One Beer (Drunk Version)"
(2008)
Music video
"One Beer" on YouTube

"One Beer" is a song recorded by American hip hop duo Madvillain, originally intended for inclusion on their debut studio album Madvillainy.[1] The song instead ended up being used on MF Doom's 2004 album Mm..Food, credited to MF Doom instead of Madvillain.[2] "One Beer" was released as a limited-press 7" single in 2004, given away by select online retailers with copies of Madvillainy.[3] An animated music video was released on 16 November 2018, 14 years after Mm..Food's release.[4]

Background[]

"One Beer" track was originally recorded for Madvillainy, but Doom and Madlib felt it didn't fit the record and decided to leave it off.[1] 1000 copies were pressed to 7" vinyl and given away by select online retailers with copies of Madvillainy upon the album's release.[3] The song samples French jazz-funk band Cortex's 1975 song "Huit Octobre 1971".[5][6]

Music video[]

On 16 November 2018, the 14th anniversary of Mm..Food's release, Rhymesayers Entertainment released an animated music video for "One Beer", created by Philadelphia visual artist Anhia Zaira Santana, also known as "Distortedd".[7] The Japanese anime-styled video features multiple characters as Cyclopes fighting over the last can of beer, including Doom himself and Madlib's alter ego Lord Quas.[8] In the video, a young Cyclops girl drinks from a can of beer, and later takes a psychedelic mushroom dropped by Lord Quas, sending her into a drug-induced hallucination where she believes she is shrunken down and chased by a three-eyed cat. At the end of the video she is rescued by Doom and Lord Quas in a UFO.[9] The video's style is highly reminiscent of early 2000's Flash and Newgrounds animations.

Santana said of the collaboration, "Dream come true. I collaborated with the GOAT,[a] my favorite artist/best artist of all time".[10]

Track listing[]

A-side
No.TitleLength
1."One Beer"2:51

B-side

No.TitleLength
Etching of Jeff Jank's characters Hookie & Baba

Personnel[]

Credits are adapted from the single's liner notes.[11]

Drunk Version[]

"One Beer (Drunk Version)"
One Beer Drunk Version Madvillain.png
Official digital single cover
Single by Madvillain
from the album Madvillainy 2: The Box
Released15 September 2008 (as part of Madvillainy 2: The Box)
RecordedLate 2003
GenreAlternative hip hop
Length1:52
LabelStones Throw
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Madlib
Madvillain singles chronology
"One Beer"
(2004) 		"One Beer (Drunk Version)"
(2008) 		"Papermill"
(2010)

"One Beer" was original recorded over the beat used by Madlib and J Dilla for the song "No Games" on the Jaylib album Champion Sound.[12] Madlib attempted to remix the track so that it could be used for Madvillainy, but the results were deemed "too weird" and it was left off the album.[13] The only copy of this remix, dubbed the "Drunk Version" by label Stones Throw, was burned to a CD and then lost in Madlib's studio. The CD was re-discovered in 2005 and later included with Madvillainy 2: The Box as a 12" single.[14][13][15]

A-side
No.TitleLength
1."One Beer" (Drunk Version)1:52

Notes[]

  1. ^ Short for "Greatest of All Time".

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "One Beer". Stones Throw. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  2. ^ MM..FOOD (liner notes). MF DOOM. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Rhymesayers Entertainment. 2004. RSE0051-1.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Stones Throw Fan Club 45 #8: One Beer by Madvillain". Stones Throw. Archived from the original on 11 April 2004. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  4. ^ Schatz, Lake (16 November 2018). "Fourteen years later, MF DOOM shares animated "One Beer" music video: Watch". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  5. ^ Sorcinelli, Gino (22 June 2020). "Cortex: The Mysterious French Band Behind Some of Rap's Most Majestic Moments". Substack. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  6. ^ Bell, James (11 March 2012). "Sample Sundays: Mm..Cortex and Beer". The Daily Californian. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  7. ^ Watson, Elijah. "MF DOOM Celebrates 14th Anniversary Of 'Mm..Food' With Animated "One Beer" Music Video". Okayplayer. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  8. ^ Bonita (17 November 2018). "All It Takes Is 1 Drink To Get MF DOOM & Madlib Animated (Video)". Ambrosia for Heads. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  9. ^ Ofiaza, Renz. "MF Doom Celebrates 'Mm..Food' Anniversary With Trippy "One Beer" Video". Highsnobiety. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  10. ^ Montes, Patrick (16 November 2018). "MF DOOM Enlists Distortedd for Trippy, Animated "One Beer" Video". HypeBeast. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  11. ^ One Beer (liner notes). Madvillain. Los Angeles, California: Stones Throw Records. 2004. STH4008.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  12. ^ "Madvillain "One Beer (Drunk Version)"". Stones Throw. 22 April 2009. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  13. ^ Jump up to: a b "One Beer (Drunk Version)". Stones Throw. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  14. ^ Boyd, Matt. "New(ish) Villainy Afoot". Impose. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  15. ^ "Madvillainy 2: The Box". Stones Throw. 23 July 2008. Retrieved 23 March 2021.

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