Madvillainy

Madvillainy is the debut studio album by American hip hop duo Madvillain, a
Madvillainy
group consisting of MF Doom (MC) and Madlib (producer). It was released on
March 23, 2004 on Stones Throw Records. The album was recorded between
2002 and 2004 and was produced entirely by Madlib, with the exception of "The
Illest Villains" which was produced by both Madlib and Doom. Madlib created
most of the album's instrumentals during a trip to Brazil, where the production
was composed in his hotel room using minimal amounts of equipment: a Boss
SP-303, a turntable, and a tape deck.[1] Fourteen months before the album was
officially released, an unfinished demo of the album was stolen and leaked onto
the internet. Frustrated over the leak, the duo stopped working on the album and
returned to it only after they released other solo projects.

While Madvillainy achieved only moderate commercial success, it still became

one of the label's best-selling albums. The album peaked at number 179 on the Studio album by Madvillain
US Billboard 200, and attracted much attention from media outlets not usually Released March 23, 2004
covering hip hop music, including The New Yorker. Madvillainy received rave Recorded 2002–2004
reviews from most music critics, who praised both Doom's lyricism and Madlib's
Studio Bionic
production. The album has appeared in various publications' lists of the best
(Los Angeles, California)
albums, including NME magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The Bomb Shelter
(Glendale, California)
Doom's Crib
Contents (Atlanta, Georgia)

Background Genre Alternative hip hop · jazz

Recording rap · experimental hip
Production hop · underground hip
Lyrics hop
Artwork Length 46:08
Release and promotion
Label Stones Throw
Remixes
Producer Madlib · Doom
Critical reception
Accolades Madvillain chronology
Legacy and influence Madvillainy Madvillainy
Track listing (2004) 2: The
Personnel Madlib
Remix
Charts
(2008)
Album
Singles Madlib chronology
References
Champion Madvillainy Stevie
External links Sound (2004) (2004)
(with J Dilla
Background as Jaylib)
(2003)
In 1997, after the death of his brother DJ Subroc and the rejection of KMD's Doom chronology
album Black Bastards by Elektra Records, rapper Zev Love X returned to music
Vaudeville Madvillainy Venomous
as the masked rapper MF Doom.[2] In 1999, he released his debut solo album
Villain (2004) Villain
Operation: Doomsday on Fondle 'Em Records.[3] According to Nathan Rabin of
(2003) (2004)
The A.V. Club, the album "has attained mythic status; its legend has grown in
proportion to its relative unavailability".[4] Soon after release of the album, in an
Instrumental release
interview with the Los Angeles Times, Madlib stated that he wanted to
collaborate with two artists: J Dilla and Doom.[5]

In 2001, after Fondle 'Em closed, Doom disappeared. During that time, he lived
between Long Island, New York, and the Kennesaw suburb of Atlanta, Georgia.
Coincidentally, Eothen "Egon" Alapatt, who was the manager of Madlib's label
Stones Throw Records, had a friend in Kennesaw. He asked the friend to give
Doom (who didn't know about Madlib and Stones Throw at the time) some
instrumentals from Madlib. Three weeks later, the friend called back, telling him
that Doom loved the instrumentals and wanted to work with Madlib. Soon, one
of Doom's "quasi-managers" made an offer, asking for plane tickets to Los
Angeles and $1,500. Despite the fact that label didn't have enough money after Instrumentals only
buying the tickets, they immediately agreed. According to Egon, soon after Singles from Madvillainy
arrival, the manager went to him demanding money, while Doom visited
Madlib:[5] 1. "Money Folder" / "America's
Most Blunted"
The first thing his manager did was get me in my bedroom, Released: November 11, 2003
which was also the office, and corner me about the 1,500 bucks. I 2. "All Caps" / "Curls"
realized that if she was in here, then Doom was with [Madlib], Released: February, 2004
and the longer I kept up this charade with her, the longer they’ll
vibe and maybe it all might work out.

Egon's plan was successful, and Doom and Madlib began working together. Soon after, Stones Throw Records managed to collect
the money necessary to pay Doom and a contract to the label was signed, which was written on a paper plate.[5]

Recording
Doom and Madlib started working on Madvillainy in 2002. Madlib created one hundred beats in a matter of weeks, some of
which were used on Madvillainy, some were used on his collaboration album with J Dilla Champion Sound, while others were
used for M.E.D.'s and Dudley Perkins' albums. Even though Stones Throw booked Doom a hotel room, he spent most of the time
in Madlib's studio, based in an old bomb shelter in Mount Washington, Los Angeles. When the duo wasn't working on the album,
they were spending free time together, drinking beer, eating Thai food, smoking marijuana,[5] and taking psychedelic
mushrooms.[6] "Figaro" and "Meat Grinder" were among the songs recorded during this time.[7]

In November 2002, Madlib went to Brazil to participate in a Red Bull Music Academy lecture,[8] where he debuted the first
music from the album by playing an unfinished version of "America's Most Blunted".[9] Madlib also went crate digging during
his time in Brazil, searching for obscure vinyl records he could sample later, with fellow producers Cut Chemist, DJ Babu, and
J.Rocc.[10][11] According to Madlib himself, he bought multiple crates full of vinyl records, two of which he later lost.[10] He
used some of these records to produce beats for Madvillainy. Most of the album,[10] including beats for "Strange Ways", "Raid",
and "Rhinestone Cowboy", was produced in his hotel room in São Paulo, using a portable turntable, a cassette deck, and a Boss
SP-303 sampler.[5] While Madlib was working on the album in Brazil, the unfinished demo was stolen and leaked on the internet,
14 months before its official release. Jeff Jank, Stones Throw's art director, remembers the leak in the interview with Pitchfork:[5]

Those were the early days of internet leaks, and we thought it would completely ruin sales. People were
approaching Doom and Madlib at shows to tell them how much they liked the album, so they were like, 'Fuck it,
I'm done.' Madlib started on other stuff, and Doom, well, you never know what he's doing.

Doom and Madlib decided to work on different projects. Madlib released Champion Sound with J Dilla, while Doom released
two solo albums: Take Me to Your Leader, as King Geedorah, and Vaudeville Villain, as Viktor Vaughn. Nevertheless, after the
release of these albums, they decided to return to Madvillainy. For the final version of the album, Doom altered his voice,
described by Peanut Butter Wolf as going from "really hyper, more enthusiastic" to "a more mellow, relaxed, confident, less
abrasive", and changed some lyrics to coincide with this change. Madlib was also asked by the label to change some
instrumentals, but told them that he forgot the samples he used, in order to allow for them to remain on the album. Additionally,
the label also requested the duo make a proper ending for the album, forcing them to rent a studio for the recording of
"Rhinestone Cowboy".[5] The beat used, however, was produced in Brazil.[12]

Production
Madvillainy was produced almost entirely by Madlib, except the first track,
which he produced in collaboration with Doom.[13] On the album, Madlib
incorporates his distinctive production style, based on using samples,[14] mostly
obscure, from albums recorded in different countries.[15] Aside from sampling
records by American artists,[16] namely from jazz[17] and soul,[18] Madlib also
used Indian (for example, "Shadows of Tomorrow" samples "Hindu Hoon Main
Na Musalman Hoon" by R. D. Burman) and Brazilian records ("Curls" samples
"Airport Love Theme" by Waldir Calmon) for Madvillainy.[9] In regards to
Madlib's production on the album, he stated in an interview:

Madlib (pictured in 2014), producer
of the album and half of the duo
"I did most of the Madvillain album in Brazil. Cuts like "Raid" I
did in my hotel room in Brazil on a portable turntable, my 303,
and a little tape deck. I recorded it on tape, came back here, put it
on CD, and DOOM made a song out of it."[19]

The album consists of 22 songs,[13] most of which are short, under 3 minutes,
and contain no hooks or choruses.[9][18] Sam Samuelson of AllMusic compared the album to a comic book, "sometimes segued
with vignettes sampled from 1940s movies and broadcasts or left-field [marijuana]-toting skits". He also noted that some
instrumentals on the album "[seem] to be so out of time or step with a traditional hip-hop direction".[20] The A.V. Club compared
the album to a buffet, where "Madlib and Doom are interested in throwing out ideas as fast as they have them, giving them as
much attention as they need, and moving on to the next thing".[9] Tim O'Neil of PopMatters praised Madlib's instrumentals and
said that they "make the album a sonic feast".[17]

Lyrics
Doom's lyrics on Madvillainy are free-associative.[22] According to Stereogum, the album "is about using sound to craft semi-
indecipherable vignettes that are situated somewhere between the real and the mythical".[18] Despite originally featuring a more
enthusiastic, excited delivery, the leak prompted Doom to go with a slower and more relaxed flow on the final version of the
album. This move has been praised by various publications, including Pitchfork, which said that it was "ultimately better-suited"
than the original.[8]

Throughout the album, Doom uses a number of literary devices, including multi-syllable rhymes, internal rhymes, alliteration,[23]
assonance,[24] and holorimes.[25] Music critics also noted extensive use of wordplay[9] and double entendres.[26] PopMatters
wrote, "You can spend hours poring over the lyric sheet and attempting to grok Doom’s infinitely dense verbiage. If language is
arbitrary, then many of Doom’s verses exploit the essence of words stripped of meaning, random conglomerations of syllables
assembled in an order that only makes sense from a rhythmical standpoint", the critic added.[17] The Observer stated that "the
densely telegraphic lyrics almost always reward closer inspection" and that Doom's "rhymes miss beats, drop into the middle of
the next line, work their way through whole verses" allows for a smooth listen.[27]

Artwork
The album cover art was created by Stones Throw's art director Jeff Jank, based on a grayscale photo of Doom in his metal mask.
In an interview with Ego Trip, Jank said:[28]

Back then, 2003, Doom didn't really have public image. Hip hop heads knew he wore a mask, that he'd been in
KMD a decade earlier, but he really was a mystery. So, I really wanted to get a shot of him on the cover, just to
make a definitive 'Doom cover'. Specifically, I was thinking of a picture of this man, who happened to wear a
mask for some reason, as opposed to 'a picture of a mask'. I don't know if the distinction would occur to anyone
else, but to me it was a big deal. I mean, who the hell goes around with a metal mask, what's his story?

The photo was created by photographer Eric Coleman at Stones Throw's house in Los Angeles, and edited by Jank. While
working on the Madvillainy album cover, Jank drew inspiration from King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King artwork,
however, following its completion, he noticed the artwork eerily resembled Madonna's Madonna artwork. Despite this, Jank stuck
with the original artwork, labeling it as the "rap version of Beauty and the Beast". A small orange square was added to the final
version of Madvillainy, due to Jank's thinking that the artwork "needed something distinctive", comparing it to the orange "O" on
the Madonna cover.[28]

Release and promotion

Two singles from Madvillainy were released before the album release: "Money Folder" b/w "America's Most Blunted", and "All
Caps" b/w "Curls".[29][30] The first single peaked at #66 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.[31] Madvillainy was
released on March 23, 2004.[32] Despite Stones Throw Records being a relatively small label, the album achieved moderate
commercial success, which was big for the label. According to Pitchfork, "after two years of hectoring Stones Throw for making
unsalable records, distributor EMI couldn't keep Madvillainy in stock."[5] The album peaked at number 179 on Billboard 200[33]
and sold approximately 150,000 copies,[5] making it one of the label's best-selling albums.[34] Its success allowed Stones Throw
to open an office in Highland Park, Los Angeles.[5]

Four videos were filmed for the album: "All Caps" (directed by James Reitano), "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Accordion" (both
directed by Andrew Gura),[13] and "Shadows of Tomorrow" (directed by System D-128). "All Caps" and "Rhinestone Cowboy"
appear on the DVD Stones Throw 101[35] along with a hidden easter egg video for "Shadows Of Tomorrow" as a hidden feature.
An impromptu video for "Accordion" was filmed in 2004 but was not released until 2008's In Living the True Gods DVD.[36]

An instrumental version of the album was released in 2004 only in vinyl format and digitally through various online stores, with
the tracks "The Illest Villains", "Bistro", "Sickfit", "Do Not Fire!", and "Supervillain Theme" being omitted. It was re-released in
2012 on vinyl with picture sleeve.[37]
In 2014, in honor of the 10th anniversary of Madvillainy, Stones Throw released special edition of the album on vinyl.[38] The
album re-entered Billboard 200 chart, peaking at number 117,[39] higher than it did originally. The same year Madvillainy was
also released on Compact Cassettes, as part of the Cassette Store Day.[40]

Remixes
Several remixes of the album were released.[13] Two remix EPs of Madvillainy were released on Stones Throw in 2005.[41] The
remixes were done by Four Tet and Koushik.[13] Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix was released on Stones Throw in 2008,
containing a complete remix of the album by Madlib as a part of a Madvillain box set.[42] According to Stereogum, it was
Madlib's "attempt to get Doom excited enough to work on a true follow-up",[18] recorded after he got tired of waiting for Doom
to record the official sequel.[43]

Critical reception
Madvillainy received rave reviews from music critics and became
Professional ratings
one of the most critically acclaimed projects of both artists.[52] At
Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews Aggregate scores
from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 93,
Source Rating
based on 20 reviews; it was the year's best-reviewed rap album and
Metacritic 93/100[44]
third highest reviewed album overall, according to the website. It
also was the second most acclaimed rap album at the time of its Review scores
release, behind Outkast's Stankonia.[44] Sam Samuelson of
Source Rating
AllMusic wrote that album's strength "lies in its mix between
AllMusic [20]
seemingly obtuse beats, samples, MCing, and some straight-up hip-
hop bumping" and that "MF Doom's unpredictable lyrical style fits Alternative Press 5/5[45]
quite nicely within Madlib's unconventional beat Entertainment Weekly B[46]
orchestrations".[20] Will Hermes of Entertainment Weekly called it [47]
Mojo
"indie rap blowing session by two guys near the top of their
The Observer [27]
game".[46] Alternative Press praised Madvillainy as "all invention
and no indulgence",[45] while HipHopDX dubbed it an Pitchfork 9.4/10[8]
"experimental, eclectic, raw, spontaneous" classic.[21] Mojo praised [48]
Q
the album, calling it "a symphony of such densely constructed
Rolling Stone [49]
chaos" and noting that "Madvillainy's very opacity is part of its
[50]
brilliance".[47] URB

The Village Voice A−[51]

Pitchfork called Madvillainy "inexhaustibly brilliant, with layer-
upon-layer of carefully considered yet immediate hip-hop, forward-
thinking but always close to its roots", noting that "the samples are smart and never played-out, and the production and rhymes
reveal a determined sense of cooperation, as MF Doom spouts off his most brilliant lyrical change-ups and production-conscious
playoffs".[8] Q called Madlib "the most innovative beatsman since Prince Paul", who created "an oddball, cartoon-heavy
backdrop for MF Doom's mellifluous wordplay".[48] Rolling Stone gave Madvillainy praised Madlib's tracks, "fuzzy and
crackling with dust", and MF Doom, whose flow is "a particularly elegant slur, with syllables speading over a beat, not crisply
adhering to it".[49] Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine called it "a chameleonic masterpiece that alone validates the artistry of
sampler culture".[53] Robert Christgau, writing for The Village Voice, praised the album as "a glorious phantasmagoria of
flow".[51] Blender's Jody Rosen called it a "torrid album that marries old-school rap aesthetics to punk-rock concision."[54]
Madvillainy also attracted positive reviews from several publications with infrequent coverage of hip hop music.[55] David Segal
of The Washington Post called the album "hysterical, [...] perplexing, arresting, thought-provoking or just plain silly".[56] Kelefa
Sanneh of The New York Times called it "a delirious collaboration" and hailed MF Doom as a rapper who "understands the
deformative power of rhyme" and "delivers long, free-associative verses full of sideways leaps and unexpected twists".[57] Sasha
Frere-Jones of The New Yorker praised the album, noting that "the point of Madvillainy is largely poetic—celebrating the
language of music and the music of language" and that while album's beats are based on samples of records, it's "hard to say
which ones, even in a general way".[23]

Musically Meditated Reviews celebrated the 15th anniversary of the album’s release with a 9/10. “Doom is truly that unique. No
one sounds like this. No one ever will or they will be obviously biting him. He turns villainous in his art on this album and has
never really gone back to anything other than being a villain to this day. TO THIS DAY!!!”

Accolades
Several publications included Madvillainy in their lists of the best albums of the year. Pitchfork ranked it number six on their list
of the 50 best albums of 2004, stating that "the collaboration brings out the best in both men, without copying anything in their
catalogs".[58] Prefix ranked the album first on its list of the 60 best albums of 2004, stating that "when Doom and Madlib
combine, they form like Voltron".[59] PopMatters positioned it at number nine on their list of the 100 best albums of 2004,
commending MF Doom's "royal, pop culture-laden flow" and Madlib's "beat-mining expertise".[60] Spin ranked it number 17 on
their list of the 40 best albums of 2004, praising Madlib's production, "thick, woozy slabs of beatnik bass", that "keeps things
hotter than an underground volcano lair".[61] Washington City Paper ranked Madvillainy number one on their list of the top 20
albums of 2004. Stylus Magazine named it the second best album of 2004.[62] In The Village Voice's annual poll Pazz & Jop,
which combined votes from 793 critics, Madvillainy was ranked number 11 on the list of the best albums of 2004.[63] The
Wire[64] and AllMusic[65] also included the album in their unordered lists of the best albums of the year.

Numerous publications included Madvillainy in various lists of the best albums. Clash positioned it at number 47 in their list of
top 100 albums of Clash's lifetime, calling it "slapdash and dilapidated, wholly unconcerned with making sense", "defined by its
flippancy and attitude to professionalism".[66] The magazine also listed it on their list of ten best hip hop albums ever, calling it
"one of this decade’s finest hip-hop albums" that "elevated the profile of both [artists] to whole new levels".[67] Complex placed
the album in their list of 100 best albums available on Spotify, calling it "dusty, weeded up, 22-song masterpiece that stood alone
and brought us all into its own little world" and stating that "Madlib and MF Doom's classic wasn't meant for the radio, but it was
too good to be kept to the underground".[68] The magazine also listed it among 25 albums of the decade that deserve classic
status, describing it as "a classic record that had a goofy cartoony unpredictability, balanced with moments of oddball sincerity"
and 71st on the list "The 100 Best Albums of the Complex Decade".[69][70] The A.V. Club featured the album on the list "The
Best Music of the Decade", referring to the album as "an instant masterpiece".[71] Fact ranked it number 14 at their list of 100
best albums of the 2000s and praised it as "a perfect synergy between raw beats and incredible rhymes".[72] The magazine also
named it the second best album on their list of 100 best indie hip hop records ever made, stating that it was "arguably the
signature moment from the signature rapper and signature producer of the entire movement".[73] Heavy.com ranked the album
number 9 on their list "The Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums of the Decade", stating that "MF Doom has never sounded better than he did
when he teamed up with Madlib for this little ditty of WTF hip hop".[74] Slant Magazine placed the album at number 39 on the
list "The 100 Best Albums of the Aughts", calling it the "undisputed pinnacle of aughts underground rap".[75] Stylus Magazine
ranked the album number 13 on its list "The Top 50 Albums: 2000-2004".[76] Fact ranked the album 14th on its "The 100 Best
Albums of the 2000s" list, praising it as "a perfect synergy between raw beats and incredible rhymes that in the minds and hearts
of many, neither party has yet to surpass".[77] The Guardian included the album in their list of 1000 albums to hear before you
die, describing it as "a colourful window into Dumile's world", while praising its "busy unpredictability and stoned comic-book
mythos".[78] HipHopDX included the album in two lists: top 10 albums of 2000s[79] and the 30 best underground hip hop albums
since 2000, describing it as "the super rap album, reaching unforeseen creative heights" that "elevated [Doom and Madlib] into
Gods for many core Hip Hop heads".[80] Rolling Stone featured it on their list of 40 one album wonders.[81]
NME ranked the album number 411 on their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, describing it as "stoner humour and mind-
bending beats from a hip-hop dream team" and stating that "MF Doom and Madlib might not have invented underground rap, but
they damn well perfected it".[82] Pitchfork ranked the album at number 13 in their list of the top 100 albums of 2000–2004,
commenting, "While Madlib's special power played tricks on your ears – a sample you were sure was the sound of cars rolling by
on the street might sound like the hiss of a record on a different day ("Rainbows") – MF Doom unfurled his clever lyrics like a
roll of sod on earth... and the album curved in on itself like a two-way mirror."[83]Pitchfork also ranked Madvillainy as the 25th
best album of the 2000s, describing it as "a preternaturally perfect pairing of like-minded talents" who "have each been
responsible for tons of great, grimy underground hip-hop".[84] Tiny Mix Tapes considered the album the fourth best of the
2000s.[85] Rhapsody named the ranked the album 1st on its "Hip-Hop's Best Albums of the Decade" list.[86] PopMatters
positioned it at number 49 on their list of the 100 best albums of the 2000s and praised MF Doom, who "free-associates culture
high and low, from Hemingway to Robh Ruppel, across tongue-tied internal rhymes", and Madlib's "fusion breaks, psych soul,
and Steve Reich", and called the album "the best chemistry of either’s career, and one of the best of hip-hop, period".[87] In 2016
Q listed Madvillainy among the albums that didn't appear in their list of the best albums of last 30 years, stating that
"underground hip-hop's cracked geniuses, Madlib and MF Doom, unite on a labyrinth of weed-stained vignettes that combine
invention and accessibility".[88] Spin ranked it number 123 on their list of the 300 best albums of the past 30 years (1985–2014),
calling it "a genius cross-pollination of seemingly divergent styles".[89] The magazine also positioned the album at number eight
on the list of the 50 best hip hop debut albums since Reasonable Doubt.[90] Stylus Magazine ranked the album number 13 on their
list of the top 50 albums of 2000–2005, praising Madlib's production, based on "an endless supply of funk, soul, and jazz
samples", and stating that the album was "displaying the future of hip-hop".[91]

Legacy and influence

Madvillainy influenced a generation of artists.[92][93] Among some of them are
rappers Joey Badass, the late Capital STEEZ, Bishop Nehru, Tyler, The Creator, Earl
Sweatshirt,[5] Danny Brown,[94] Kirk Knight,[95] producer and rapper Flying
Lotus,[96] producer and DJ Cashmere Cat,[97] neo soul collective Jungle,[98] indie
rock band Cults,[99] and Radiohead singer Thom Yorke.[5][100] According to Earl
Sweatshirt, Madvillainy influenced his generation the same way Wu-Tang Clan
influenced the rappers of 1990s with their album Enter the Wu-Tang (36
Chambers).[101] In 2009 a video of Mos Def working on his album The Ecstatic in a
studio was released. In the video he praised Doom, saying that "he rhymes as weird
as I feel", and recited some of Doom's lines, including the ones from
Madvillainy.[102] He added:[5]

Dude, I swear to God, when I saw that Madvillain record, I bought it

on vinyl. I ain't have a record player. I bought it on vinyl just to stare
Graffiti of Doom from Madvillainy
at the album. I stared at it and I just kept going, 'I understand you'. cover in Little Haiti, Miami, Florida

In 2015, in honor of the release of All-New, All-Different Marvel comics line and to
pay homage to classic and contemporary hip hop albums, Marvel released variant covers inspired by these albums.[103][104] One
of them was variant cover of The Mighty Thor comics, based on Madvillainy cover. It used grayscale image of Jane Foster's face
behind the metal mask, with a picture of Mjolnir in a small orange square on top right corner and "THE MIGHTY THOR" text in
pixelated font on top left.[105]

Track listing
All tracks written by Daniel Dumile and Otis Jackson Jr., except where noted; all tracks produced by Madlib, except "The Illest
Villains", produced by Madlib and Doom, and voice skits produced by Doom.[106]

No. Title Writer(s) Length

1. "The Illest Villains" 1:55
2. "Accordion" 1:58
3. "Meat Grinder" 2:11
4. "Bistro" 1:07
5. "Raid" (featuring MED a.k.a. Medaphoar) Dumile · Jackson Jr. · Nick 2:30
Rodriguez
6. "America’s Most Blunted" (featuring Lord Quas) 3:54
7. "Sickfit" (Instrumental) Jackson Jr. 1:21
8. "Rainbows" 2:51
9. "Curls" 1:35
10. "Do Not Fire!" (Instrumental) Jackson Jr. 0:52
11. "Money Folder" 3:02
12. "Shadows of Tomorrow" (featuring Lord Quas) 2:36
13. "Operation Lifesaver a.k.a. Mint Test" 1:30
14. "Figaro" 2:25
15. "Hardcore Hustle" (featuring Wildchild) Jackson Jr. · Jack Brown 1:21
16. "Strange Ways" 1:51
17. "Fancy Clown" 1:55
18. "Eye" (featuring Stacy Epps) 1:57
19. "Supervillain Theme" (Instrumental) Jackson Jr. 0:52
20. "All Caps" 2:10
21. "Great Day" Dumile · Jackson Jr. · Lord 2:16
Scotch 79
22. "Rhinestone Cowboy" 3:59
Total length: 46:22
Sample credits

"Accordion" contains a sample from "Experience" by Daedelus.

Various other uncredited samples appear throughout the album.

Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[106]

Madvillain

DOOM – MC, production (track 1, voice skits), recording

Madlib – beats, production, recording
Additional personnel

Peanut Butter Wolf – executive producer

Allah's Reflection – additional vocals (track 17)
Dave Cooley – mixing, mastering, recording
James Reitano – illustration
Egon – project coordination
Miranda Jane – project consultant
Eric Coleman – photography
 Jeff Jank – design

Charts

Album Singles
Original release
Peak
Song Chart (2003)
position
Peak
Chart (2004)
position "Money US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-
66
Folder" Hop Songs[31]
US Billboard 200[33] 179

US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[107] 80

US Billboard Top Independent Albums[108] 10

US Billboard Top Heatseekers Albums[109] 9

2014 re-release

Peak
Chart (2004)
position

US Billboard 200[110] 117

US Billboard Top Catalog Albums[111] 17

US Billboard Top Vinyl Albums[112] 3

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External links
Madvillainy (https://www.discogs.com/master/8554) at Discogs (list of releases)
Madvillainy on Stones Throw's official channel (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9dk_xtWpAkKs1-EKcvq-
nKwdaaS-3czd) playlist on YouTube

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