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]
"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]
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]
B-side
Etching of Jeff Jank's characters Hookie & Baba
Credits are adapted from the single's label.[11]
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]