The album works because Swizz for the most part internalizes the lessons of "It's Me, Bitches", camouflaging his weaknesses and sometimes even turning them into strengths. Somehow, though, One Man Band Man is a good album, though by no means a great one. As great as "It's Me, Bitches" might be, it doesn't exactly give the impression that Swizz Beatz would be capable of making a good album. "It's Me, Bitches" is a forceful and mindless dumb-out classic, and it feels like a glorious fluke, the sort of success that could not possibly repeat itself. Any actual rapper would have a hell of a time navigating this minefield, but Swizz just plays hypeman for himself, screaming catchphrases and adding to the clutter rather than trying to stay above it. The track keeps interrupting itself, flying apart and then back together before ending in a great incendiary scratch-solo. The song is a delirious burst of energy, oscillating synth-blips and churning martial strings hammering away while sirens scream and drums shatter. On that track, he huffs and puffs, grunting a lot and saying absolutely nothing, repeating the same verses twice, attempting to make a hook out of "chillin' in my Beamer, listening to 'Ether'" despite the fact that "Beamer" doesn't even come close to rhyming with "Ether." And yet "It's Me, Bitches" is one of the best rap singles of the year. "It's Me, Bitches", the Swizz solo single that hit radio early in the year, is a total mess. His clanging, anthemic keyboard-beats were one of the main forces behind the late-90s rise of the Ruff Ryders crew, and more recently he's kept buys churning out dense, furious club-bangers for the likes of Beyonce and T.I. However, this should not be possible, as he never re-attached the snare drum.Swizz Beatz is one of the most dependable big-name producers in rap. Two snare drum sounds can be heard at the beginning of Bass' fourth number (the one after the number where he balances on his snare drum).The music during the credits is Pablo de Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen.As the two start to fall backwards, the short film ends. After the credits roll, the two musicians work together in an attempt at reaching the top, where the two coins remain. Before leaving, she takes two coins for the one-man-bands and tosses them into the top of a fountain, where she was originally going to put her coin in for a wish. A rich man, pleased by her performance, gives her a big bag of coins, and the girl eagerly picks it up. She takes one of the violins from the orchestra one-man-band, re-tuned it, and played an unexpected tune. The girl gets upset and is then angered by the two musicians causing her to lose it, and demands the two one-man-bands for a replacement coin, but they reveal that they are poor and broke. They both instantly become rivals and fight over the girl's coin until she accidentally drops the coin, which falls into a drain.
The short film begins with a man, named Bass, playing multiple brass instruments, and tries to get a little girl to tip him a coin, but soon meets another musician, named Treble with orchestral instruments.
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