Insane Clown Posse

alternately.

Search: "Wizard In The Hood"
"Psychopatchic"
"Beverly Kills"
"The Stalker"
"Murder Go Round"
"The Dead One"
"Wagon Wagon"
"My Fun House"
"The Loons"
"Who Are You"
"One For The Maggots"
"The Show Must Go On"
"Three Rings"
"12"
"The Killing Fields"
"Skitsofrantic"
"Cotton Candy"
"Amy's In The Attic"
"Stomp"
"Hocus Pocus"
"Boogie Woogie Wu"
"I Stab People"
"Bizzar"
"Please Don't Hate Me"
"Mr. Happy"

I forgot "Hey Vato" in the search list, BTW.

When did this happen?

"Bugz On My Nugz" is goofy fun with a bouncy beat and "Another Love Song" is pretty hilarious for the little spoken asides before the choruses. Neither is a classic, though.

(Also "Mr. Happy" should be removed from my list and replaced with "Hey Vato".)

85 Bucks an Hour Mike E Clark ... Mostasteless
Composed by: Mike E Clark, Insane Clown Posse, Twizted

Bring It On Mike E. Clark ... The Amazing Jeckel Brothers
Composed by: Mike E. Clark, Insane Clown Posse

Carnival of Carnage Joseph Bruce ... Carnival of Carnage
Composed by: Joseph Bruce, Esham

Cherry Pie (I Need a Freak) David Payton Bizzar
Chicken Huntin' Mike E. Clark ... The Ringmaster
Composed by: Mike E. Clark, Howard Dodd, D. Greenburg, Mark Niles

Dead Body Man Mike E. Clark ... The Riddle Box
Composed by: Mike E. Clark, Insane Clown Posse

Down With the Clown Mike E. Clark ... The Great Milenko
Composed by: Mike E. Clark, Insane Clown Posse

F*uck the World Mike E. Clark ... The Amazing Jeckel Brothers
Composed by: Mike E. Clark, Insane Clown Posse

Ghetto Freak Show Joseph Bruce Carnival of Carnage
Hokus Pokus Mike E. Clark ... The Great Milenko
Composed by: Mike E. Clark, Insane Clown Posse

House of Horrors Mike E. Clark ... The Great Milenko
Composed by: Mike E. Clark, Insane Clown Posse

House of Mirrors The Ringmaster
Composed by: Mike E. Clark, Insane Clown Posse

I Want My Sh*T Mike E. Clark ... The Amazing Jeckel Brothers
Composed by: Mike E. Clark, Insane Clown Posse

Juggalo Paradise B.B. ... Bizzar
Composed by: B.B., Mike E. Clark

Mad Professor Mike E. Clark ... The Amazing Jeckel Brothers
Composed by: Mike E. Clark, Insane Clown Posse

My Kind of Bitch Mike E. Clark ... Tunnel of Love
Composed by: Mike E. Clark, Insane Clown Posse, Two Dope, Violent J.

Nothing's Left Mike E. Clark ... The Amazing Jeckel Brothers
Composed by: Mike E. Clark, Insane Clown Posse

Red Neck Hoe Joseph Bruce ... Carnival of Carnage
Composed by: Joseph Bruce, Joseph Utsler

Still Stabbin' B.B. ... Bizaar
Composed by: B.B., Mike E. Clark

Take Me Away B.B. ... Bizaar
Composed by: B.B., Mike E. Clark

The Joker's Wild Mike E. Clark ... The Riddle Box
Composed by: Mike E. Clark, Insane Clown Posse

The Juggla Joseph Bruce Carnival of Carnage
The Shaggy Show Mike E. Clark ... The Amazing Jeckel Brothers
Composed by: Mike E. Clark, Gangster Fun, Insane Clown Posse, Snoop Dogg

We Gives No Fuck B.B. ... Bizaar
Composed by: B.B., Mike E. Clark

What Is a Juggalo? Mike E. Clark ... The Great Milenko
Composed by: Mike E. Clark, Insane Clown Posse

Your Rebel Flag Joseph Bruce ... Carnival of Carnage
Composed by: Joseph Bruce, Joseph Utsler

I hear they are confused by magnets.

ithink they are funny and have some good trax sometimes and i dont relate them to their stupid fans that take them seriously and they are just really lucky i mean i like them better than BMRC, Trail of Dead n shit.
― chaki (chaki), Monday, November 11, 2002 6:04 AM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't like any hip-hop but the mockery surrounding ICP/"juggalo culture" for the past decade or so always struck me as a thinly veiled excuse for upper-middle class white leftists to gawk at & make fun of poor people

what's thinly veiled about it

What's funny to me is that a lot of people who got into ICP "ironically" because of "Miracles" like the group for pretty much the exact same reasons their actual fans do

Interesting article here setting out a defense of the juggalo subculture - http://thislandpress.com/2016/08/30/til-the-clowns-come-home/

i still 100% agree with my from 13 years ago, global tetrahedron. ICP > BRMC. Also the "wah wah liberals making fun of poor people" is kind of invalidated when you realize that Juggalos actively encourage homophobic and misogynist behaviour. Remember the Tila Tequila incident?

I mean she's a nazi now so maybe that's invalid too lol.

https://www.facebook.com/INSANECLOWNPOSSE/videos/2116186811786336/

lmao this is amazing

https://i.imgur.com/N4P8gG2.png

Google doing some Soviet-style airbrushing of history here

https://i.imgur.com/Hoh9jcE.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Z6tSqws.jpg

Agrammatical to boot. Truly shameful.

wow just watched that 'snake busters' video frogbs posted and dying laughing, incredible work.

https://movieweb.com/take-a-seat-insane-clown-posse-chris-hansen/

why the hell not, i guess.

It's 2020 and ICP are less problematic than many a beloved indie band.

just fucking wow at how accurate that statement is.

Yeah, they seem like decent guys.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/franchises/interview/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

dang. the world def needs more of that "admit it when you're wrong" attitude.

Being a good father really matters to Violent J:

https://www.thefader.com/2018/07/10/violent-j-from-icp-supports-his-furry-daughter-video

sincerely curious if there’s a juggalx community

About 1,060 results (0.36 seconds)

amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42IsApbJzZE

Nearly 18 years old this thread and no one has mentioned Insane Clown Posse yet? Now that's insane.

Definitely fits the Clown Posse part though!

lol how is it that Violent J handles dumb bigoted shit in his past better than 100% of all comedians

honestly bless them

hey you all they're talking about bands whose fans were their own subcultures and nobody's mentioned these guys yet, you all should join this thread and up them!

Bands whose fans were their own subculture

I like how it's $75 to get Violent J or $75 to get Shaggy to do the video, but it's $175 to have them do both.

it's dialectical

you all should join this thread and up them!

Or we could all chip in on a Custom Clown Clip...

For five of us, it'd only be $15 apiece.

If we got ten of us together, it'd only be like $17.50!

this would be a great way to start squashing ILX beefs tbh

he could create a tutorial video for new users

"Hi - if you're seeing this, you've decided to join the community known as ILX. This was a bad decision, but don't you worry - Violent J is here to help you navigate these very choppy waters. Now...let's begin with our first module.

FUCKING FP'S - HOW DO THEY WORK?"

Came across this exchange in a court hearing between a lawyer and an FBI agent, trying to work out the difference between boogaloo and juggalos. pic.twitter.com/p82h9nwqAU

— Shane Bauer (@shane_bauer) October 20, 2020

do they not?

they do not.

how J boogalooed it

fabulous, ty

amazing

Indeed.

what happens to juggalos as they grow older and lose their edge?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGdecP0eYqM

aging juggalos feel the pangs of nostalgia, and surely there's an overlap between "i desire juggalo classics" and "give me 180-gram audiophile vinyl"

https://i.discogs.com/BnQmvbRt01xdDWlbuE7NLHcUUJZ1rRrigdEBRxmS7Nw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:440/w:432/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExMTE4/NTc4LTE1MzIxODM3/MjctNDc1Ny5qcGVn.jpeg

This could swing it

https://consequence.net/2024/10/insane-clown-posse-violent-j-kamala-harris/

“they have the right to be the fuckin’ shit”

YES

Okay, so I'm aware of the Insane Clown Posse. I remember the jokes about "Miracles" from five years ago. But apart from that one track I haven't heard a single thing by the band. They were never popular in the UK and I just couldn't be bothered to check them out.

But I'm broadminded. I'm willing to give music a chance. Because overall I believe that music is mostly good. To borrow a joke from The Onion, I would rate music 8/10. Shit, cat.

So I decided to fill the Insane Clown Posse-sized hole in my musical mind. I decided to fill my Insane Clown Posse swimming pool with Insane Clown Posse champagne and have an Insane Clown Posse party in my Insane Clown Posse pants. The last time I did this the subject was Sarah McLachlan, who was also completely unpopular in the UK, but I was impressed. By "Possession" at least. Less so the rest of her work. But she was better than I expected. The point is that I'm willing to give music a try. Sometimes it's good! Even when it's bad, it's better than listening to other people.

Now, my expectation was that the Insane Clown Posse were a bit like Cypress Hill. A kind of deliberately stupid old-fashioned hip hop band, but whereas Cypress Hill were stupid in a "secretly genius" sense the ICP were just stupid, which is why the press hated them. As with e.g. Grand Funk I have the impression that the press hated their meat-and-two-veg lack of self-awareness. So I listened to "Hokus Pokus", which has 22m views, and yes, it sounds like a slower, less interesting Cypress Hill. It has the same "wheeee" sample. It's catchy but I can't imagine why it would be the foundation of a major cult.

And then I listened to "Tilt-a-Whirl", which is also a slower, less interesting Cypress Hill, but with an awful chorus. And then "Jump Around" and "Halls of Illusions", which is bad rock music. And some more tracks. "Miracles" again. But ultimately they're just no good.

Like Kiss! I went on a Kiss dive several years ago and concluded that they had nothing to offer beyond their most famous hits, all of which were derivative of something else. I'm saddened because I wanted to like Kiss. And Insane Clown Posse. Disliking them is too obvious, and I love moronic music as long as it's catchy. But it's just weak! It's weak.

And there isn't even much swearing. I was expecting masses of swearing in a thick New Jersey accent. But the lyrics are disappointingly tame. Perhaps the album versions are ruder. And yet the band has a passionate fanbase of fat men and tattooed women who wear unwashed t-shirts, and so they can't be completely worthless. It must be a cultural thing.

Well, given that they are from Michigan, you weren't ever going to get a lot of thick New Jersey accents.

"Fuck the World" is one song I can recall my old roommate playing that had a lot of swearing.

they call themselves the Insane Clown Posse and yet will not support an Insane Clown for President?

at least they have some self-awareness about being insane clowns

though as has been established, they have a poor understanding of how many people you need to make up a posse

Greetings to future ILX researchers who are searching for "Sarah McLachlan" and finding this thread.

lol frogbs

ftr Hokus Pokus is a terrible album

Effectively anything released after The Great Milenko is completely unbearable and arguably the only things they put out that are actually worth listening to are Ringmaster, the Tunnel of Love EP, and Riddle Box, and even then you have to make many allowances for their schtick

It must be a cultural thing.

i think this is it. the incredible austerity of suburban midwest USA in the '90s

Actually I guess if you combined the best tracks from Bizarr/Bizaar into a single album, that would also be worth investigating

everyone always wants Kiss and ICP to be as good as Furr and they never are!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKYFQdSMoyw

“Cold Gin” is an absolute classic, I will always love KISS for that one song

as someone ignorant of furr, too good for kiss, and a fan of 10cc generally, i may be slightly susceptible to furr

And yet the band has a passionate fanbase of fat men and tattooed women who wear unwashed t-shirts, and so they can't be completely worthless.

tbh most surface level criticisms of juggalos reek of classism, though they do make themselves easy targets with the clown makeup and faygo. i think they deserve some level of respect for being a contemporary american counter-culture where inclusivity and anti-racism are ostensibly part of their core ideals

as for the music, to me it's just a puerile version of early 666 mafia and your mileage will vary wildly depending on your tolerances for that kind of thing. DJP's recommendations are otm if you're curious

yeah the interview with one of them - Violent J I think - where he directly apologizes for the homophobic lyrics - was really cool. because it wasn't just "oh I'm sorry if people were hurt" like it usually is, he really digs into it, kinda heartwarming to know that Juggalos can change and grow as people

can't say I've ever liked their music much, Great Milenko is a solid album at least and both "Neden Game" and "Miracles" still make me laugh...."magic everywhere in this bitch" is still one of the funniest things. SNL did a really good parody of it but nothing beats that line

"Well, given that they are from Michigan, you weren't ever going to get a lot of thick New Jersey accents."

I have to admit that my knowledge of the US is very limited. Until a few moments ago I didn't realise that Michigan was a state. I thought it was a city. And I've always assumed that white rappers in the US try to imitate this accent, in the same way that people in the UK try to imitate cockney:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFvL4obCrbQ

e.g. The Sopranos, because that's what gangsters sound like. Or at least it's what the Beastie Boys sound like, but as someone will point out they actually are from New York. You know, that video stands out not just for the accents but also for the complete lack of pity, which is something I've always associated with New York. The "fuck you, pal" quality.

I think the problem is that there's no UK analogue of the Insane Clown Posse, either on a musical or a sociopolitical level. The Prodigy? But they're musically much more sophisticated, and with a few lapses they give the impression that they're socially more broadminded. Altern-8 were cheerfully moronic rather than offensive. Oasis? Goldie Lookin' Chain? Furthermore the UK charts have never had a distinction between black and white artists, so there isn't much of a market for white rappers, besides which Adam Ant pretty much rendered the entire genre of white rap obsolete with "Ant Rap", and that was 1981.

"besides which Adam Ant pretty much rendered the entire genre of white rap obsolete with "Ant Rap", and that was 1981."

i beg to differ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Oi8iJH7m0

ICP and Juggalo culture are so easy to make fun of that it has been hard to resist sometimes. But I have to say the whole scene has always (from a distance at least) looked pretty friendly and welcoming to people who don't fit in easily — the homophobic lyrics are there, but my sense is that Juggalos themselves are queer-friendly — and overall there seems like there's a lot of sweetness there.

As this story says: https://www.papermag.com/juggalos-trans-joy#rebelltitem2

The first person I met at the Gathering was a trans woman named Estelle [name changed for anonymity]. She immediately offered me a bump, a hug and her life story. I ran into trans and nonbinary people of all stripes, as well as the accompanying chasers. An old-head juggalo carting around a wagon filled with nitrous canisters asked for my pronouns. I shotgunned Four Lokos with a bunch of cis dudes as we screamed “FTM summer” in unison. One juggalo even came out to me as demisexual.

“I assumed it would be a cis sausage fest,” said Cody, a 31-year-old juggalo from New York who uses any pronouns. “But it was clear when I arrived how many other queers and trans folks were there. I am hopeful that with the years to come, there will be more of us at the Gathering. We have the capacity to take over.”

In America’s heartland, trans and queer juggalos of all backgrounds have found a space to cut loose, find friends and be themselves without judgment. Though Ohio has been at the center of the attack on trans people, those down to clown have found an unlikely refuge, at least for four wonderfully decadent days. Juggalos call each other “family” for a reason: the festival feels like a massive, wacky family reunion.

https://www.avclub.com/violent-j-went-to-a-furry-convention-in-an-icp-fursuit-1830823096

Violent J getting dressed up in a fursuit and taking his daughter to cons is so wholesome.

furr sound pretty good! scott seward recommendations usually a safe bet. the cover, wow. like if you asked some really primitive AI programme to make a KISS album knockoff.

i think i appreciate the cover more than the music now that i’ve listened

somebody in one of the youtube comments claimed that record was just a dumping ground for a bunch of random Super K recordings from different groups, which would explain why the quality varies so much

sounds like something k&k would do for sure

I grew up in rural Wisconsin there were lots of Juggalos there, the main impression I get is that they're just people who wanna hang but have a hard time finding people who wanna hang with them

every once in a while i walk down the street and start singing "I know what you wear/you wear the juggalo pants/you wear the juggalo pants...". because i'm a big syd barrett fan.

every once in a while i walk down the street and start singing "I know what you wear/you wear the juggalo pants/you wear the juggalo pants...". because i'm a big syd barrett fan.

Awesome.

My late FIL lived in Bay City, Michigan and there were always a TON of Juggalo sighting around that area.