"One Beer" is a song recorded by American hip hop duo

Madvillain Madvillain was an American hip hop duo consisting of two MCs and producers, MF Doom and Madlib. Their only album, ''Madvillainy'', earned critical acclaim and cult popularity, widely regarded as one of the greatest rap albums of all time and ...

, originally intended for inclusion on their debut studio album ''

Madvillainy ''Madvillainy'' is the only studio album by American hip hop duo Madvillain, consisting of rapper MF Doom and producer Madlib. It was released on March 23, 2004, on Stones Throw Records. The album was recorded between 2002 and 2004. Madlib cre ...

''. The song instead ended up being used on

MF Doom Daniel Dumile ( ; July 13, 1971October 31, 2020), best known by his stage name MF Doom or simply Doom (both stylized in all caps), was a British-American rapper and record producer. Noted for his intricate wordplay, signature metal mask, and ...

's 2004 album '' Mm..Food'', credited to MF Doom instead of Madvillain. "One Beer" was released as a limited-press 7" single in 2004, given away by select online retailers with copies of ''Madvillainy''. An animated music video was released on 16 November 2018, 14 years after ''Mm..Food'''s release.

Background

"One Beer" was originally recorded for ''Madvillainy'', but Doom and

Madlib Otis Jackson Jr. (born October 24, 1973), known professionally as Madlib, is an American DJ, music producer, multi-instrumentalist, and rapper. He is widely known for his collaborations with MF DOOM (as Madvillain), J Dilla (as Jaylib), and Fr ...

felt it didn't fit the record and decided to leave it off. 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. The song samples French

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band Cortex's 1975 song "Huit Octobre 1971".

Music video

On 16 November 2018, the 14th anniversary of ''Mm..Food'''s release,

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released an animated music video for "One Beer", created by

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visual artist Anhia Zaira Santana, also known as "Distortedd". The Japanese

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-styled video features multiple characters as

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fighting over the last can of beer, including Doom himself and Madlib's alter ego Lord Quas. In the video, a young Cyclops girl drinks from a can of beer, and later takes a

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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

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. The video's style is highly reminiscent of early 2000's

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and

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animations. Santana said of the collaboration, "Dream come true. I collaborated with the , my favorite artist/best artist of all time".

Track listing

B-side ::Etching of Jeff Jank's characters Hookie & Baba

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the single's label. *

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– MC *

– beats

Drunk Version

"One Beer" was originally recorded over the beat used by Madlib and

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for the song "No Games" on the Jaylib album ''

Champion Sound ''Champion Sound'' is the only studio album by the duo Jaylib ( hip hop musicians J Dilla and Madlib). Half of the songs are produced by Madlib and feature J Dilla on vocals, and the other half are produced by J Dilla and feature Madlib on voca ...

''. 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. The only copy of this remix, dubbed the "Drunk Version" by label

Stones Throw Stones Throw Records is an American independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. Under the direction of founder Peanut Butter Wolf, Stones Throw has released music ranging from hip hop to experimental psychedelic rock. ''LA Weekly' ...

, 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.

References

External links

"One Beer" Official music video
on

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"One Beer (Drunk Version)" Official video
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