One Beer (Madvillain song) explained

One Beer
Cover:One Beer Madvillain.png
Type:single
Artist:Madvillain
Album:Mm..Food
Released:30 March 2004
Genre:Alternative hip hop
Length:2:51 (single version)
4:19 (album version)
2:13 (video version)
Label:Stones Throw
Producer:Madlib
Prev Title:All Caps
Prev Year:2004
Next Title:One Beer (Drunk Version)
Next Year:2008

"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" was originally recorded for Madvillainy, but Doom and Madlib felt it did not 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 a week after 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, my favorite artist/best artist of all time".[10]

Track listing

B-side

Etching of Jeff Jank's characters Hookie & Baba

Personnel

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

Drunk Version

One Beer (Drunk Version)
Cover:One Beer Drunk Version Madvillain.png
Caption:Official digital single cover
Type:single
Artist:Madvillain
Album:Madvillainy 2: The Box
Released:15 September 2008
Recorded:Late 2003
Genre:Alternative hip hop
Length:1:52
Label:Stones Throw
Producer:Madlib
Prev Title:One Beer
Prev Year:2004
Next Title:Papermill
Next Year:2010

"One Beer" was originally 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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: One Beer . . 23 March 2021.
  2. MM..FOOD. MF DOOM. 2004. liner notes. Rhymesayers Entertainment. RSE0051-1. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  3. Web site: Stones Throw Fan Club 45 #8: One Beer by Madvillain. . . 23 March 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20040411200835/http://www.stonesthrow.com/madvillain/onebeer.html . 11 April 2004 . dead.
  4. Web site: Schatz . Lake . Fourteen years later, MF DOOM shares animated "One Beer" music video: Watch . . 23 March 2021 . 16 November 2018.
  5. Web site: Sorcinelli . Gino . Cortex: The Mysterious French Band Behind Some of Rap's Most Majestic Moments . . 23 March 2021 . 22 June 2020.
  6. Web site: Bell . James . Sample Sundays: Mm..Cortex and Beer . . 23 March 2021 . 11 March 2012.
  7. Web site: Watson . Elijah . MF DOOM Celebrates 14th Anniversary Of 'Mm..Food' With Animated "One Beer" Music Video . . 16 November 2018 . 23 March 2021.
  8. Web site: Bonita . All It Takes Is 1 Drink To Get MF DOOM & Madlib Animated (Video) . Ambrosia for Heads . 23 March 2021 . 17 November 2018.
  9. Web site: Ofiaza . Renz . MF Doom Celebrates 'Mm..Food' Anniversary With Trippy "One Beer" Video . . 16 November 2018 . 23 March 2021.
  10. Web site: Montes . Patrick . MF DOOM Enlists Distortedd for Trippy, Animated "One Beer" Video . HypeBeast . 23 March 2021 . 16 November 2018.
  11. One Beer. Madvillain. 2004. liner notes. Stones Throw Records. STH4008. Los Angeles, California.
  12. Web site: Madvillain "One Beer (Drunk Version)" . . 23 March 2021 . 22 April 2009.
  13. Web site: One Beer (Drunk Version) . . 23 March 2021.
  14. Web site: Boyd . Matt . New(ish) Villainy Afoot . . 23 March 2021.
  15. Web site: Madvillainy 2: The Box . . 23 March 2021 . 23 July 2008.