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Madvillainy (Music)

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Madvillainy is the only studio album by American Alternative Hip Hop duo Madvillain (MF DOOM as MC and Madlib as producer and occasional rapper), released on March 23, 2004 on Stones Throw Records. It combines DOOM's idiosyncratic rapping style and experimentation on themes of supervillainy in hip-hop with Madlib's eclectic, sample-heavy beats, creating an overarching aesthetic that runs throughout the album and is centered by the dastardly misadventures of the "Madvillain" character.DOOM and Madlib never released an official sequel to the album in the years since it was released. While both went on record with differing rationalesnote Madlib claimed that a lack of communication on DOOM's part delayed progress on the sequel, while DOOM claimed that the two have made new material that will only be released at the right time, the closest they got was a remix album Madlib put out in 2008, supposedly because he couldn't wait any longer for DOOM to record new verses. While it was called Madvillainy 2, the album eschewed the original's narrative aesthetic for completely new production, and although its reception was positive, it was nowhere near as enthusiastic or unanimous as that of the original. While hopes faltered indefinitely, the announcement of DOOM's death on October 31, 2020 seemingly drove the final nail in the Madvillainy sequel's coffin......that was, until January 2021, when Stones Throw founder and CEO Peanut Butter Wolf revealed that DOOM had almost finished recording a true Madvillainy sequel prior to his death (by "almost", we mean "85% done" according to PBW), and Stones Throw got the greenlight to release it posthumously, but is not sure when or how it will be released.
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Super Villain: Screwed around with in every way possible.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: Daedalus, whose track "Experience" provides the core sample for "Accordion", appears in the song's music video — playing an accordion, fittingly enough.
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Face on the Cover
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Face on the Cover: DOOM on the front, Madlib on the back (and the instrumentals collection).
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As the Good Book Says...
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As the Good Book Says...: "Money Folder" begins with DOOM quoting John 8:7.
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Alliterative Title: "Hardcore Hustle".
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Miniscule Rocking
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Miniscule Rocking: "Do Not Fire!" and "Supervillain Theme".
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Record Needle Scratch
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A strange example: "Accordion" ends with a snippet of the next song, "Meat Grinder", which is cut off by a Record Needle Scratch, which is when that song starts proper.
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Sampling
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Sampling: Click here to get a complete list of songs sampled on this album. It's pretty long. The album's main aesthetic is built around samples of mid 20th-century media, especially narrations of supervillains.
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Step Up to the Microphone
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Step Up to the Microphone: "Shadows of Tomorrow" is rapped by Madlib, both as himself and as his pitched-up alter ego Quasimoto.
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Album Intro Track
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Album Intro Track: "The Illest Villains", an introduction to Madvillain.
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Frame Break
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Frame Break: In the music video for "All Caps" (which takes the form of an animated comicbook), the main character escapes from confinement by jumping hard enough to break through the bottom of every panel all the way down to the bottom of the page.
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Gratuitous Panning
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Gratuitous Panning: Sounds in "The Illest Villains" pan through the left and right channels. "Bistro" pans static, telephone sounds, and voices saying "How do you do?" heavily around halfway through the song. Invoked in "Money Folder", where a line about DOOM bringing his mic everywhere to perform live and on stereo is panned to the left side. The next line then lampshades this by saying "Pan it". Also exhibited near the start of "All Caps", and later in the track when a right-panned DOOM says "your mother".
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Non-Appearing Title
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Non-Appearing Title: Besides the instrumentals, there's "Raid" and "Fancy Clown", although the names are technically said via sample..
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: Madvillain stems from Madlib for the first half of the name, and from MF DOOM (who's based around super villains) for the second half. Madvillainy is an insight into the duo.
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"Everybody Laughs" Ending
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"Everybody Laughs" Ending: A rare non-visual example; see Last Note Hilarity below.
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Singer Name Drop: "The Illest Villains", as seen in the page quote.
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Epic Rocking
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Epic Rocking: In an album mostly composed of 2-minute songs, "America's Most Blunted" and "Rhinestone Cowboy" are 4 minutes long.
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Rouge Angles of Satin
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Rouge Angles of Satin: Invoked in the sample at the end of "America's Most Blunted", with "marijuana" being spelt as "marijuajuana". The guy spelling it is high as a kite.
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Badass Boast: "The Illest Villains":
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Spell My Name with an S
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Spell My Name With An S: "Accordion" is sometimes misspelled as "Accordian". The point of "All Caps" is that MF DOOM wants the rap's listeners to spell his name entirely in capital letters.
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My Nayme Is
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My Nayme Is:
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: On "All Caps", DOOM warns, "Don't talk about my moms, yo."
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Helium Speech
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Helium Speech: The trademark sound of Madlib's alter ego Quasimoto, who appears on "Shadows of Tomorrow".
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Self-Deprecation
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Self-Deprecation: "Fancy Clown" may be hip-hop's first and only schizophrenic self-diss track, made to DOOM from DOOM's alter ego Viktor Vaughn.
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Self-Titled Album
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Self-Titled Album: Off by a letter, but makes sense considering that it's meant to show who Madvillain are and what they do.
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Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
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Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: In "Great Day", DOOM subverts a rhyme at the end of a rhyme scheme that seamlessly segues into the next rhyme scheme.
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Anti-Villain
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Anti-Villain:
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Deliberately Monochrome: The album cover, save for the orange square in the top right corner. This also applies to the music video for "Accordion".
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One-Word Title: Madvillainy, "Accordion", "Bistro", "Raid", "Sickfit", "Rainbows", "Curls", "Figaro", "Eye".
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I Have Many Names
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I Have Many Names: DOOM's alter ego Viktor Vaughn is in "Fancy Clown", and Madlib's alter ego Quasimoto is in "Shadows of Tomorrow". The opening sample of "Money Folder" lampshades this by saying "The villain took on many forms."
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You Need a Breath Mint
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You Need a Breath Mint: "Operation Lifesaver AKA Mint Test" is about DOOM meeting a really beautiful girl...with really bad breath.
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Caps Lock: In "All Caps" (referring to DOOM):
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A Glitch in the Matrix
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A Glitch in the Matrix: Referenced in "Great Day": "And I wish they fixed the door to the Matrix, there's mad glitches."
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Jazz Rap
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Jazz Rap: Courtesy of Madlib's eclectic sampling, the album is a shining example; particularly the tracks "Great Day", "Raid", and "All Caps".
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Determinator
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Determinator: The ending of "Strange Ways", which samples Tex Avery's Symphony in Slang.
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Freudian Slip
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Freudian Slip: Name-dropped in "Accordion":
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Drugs Are Good
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Drugs Are Good: "America's Most Blunted" glorifies marijuana.
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Fading into the Next Song
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Fading into the Next Song: "Bistro" —> "Raid" —> "America's Most Blunted" —> "Sickfit". A strange example: "Accordion" ends with a snippet of the next song, "Meat Grinder", which is cut off by a Record Needle Scratch, which is when that song starts proper. "Supervillain Theme" —> "All Caps".
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Last Note Hilarity
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Last Note Hilarity: The xylophone in the closing sample of "America's Most Blunted" hits the wrong note at the end, causing the guys in the studio to break down into laughter.
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