Insane Clown Posse Fans. No, they really do exist, BITCH. My question is.....WHY, JUGGALOS!?

haven't read it yet, but too good to overlook: village voice's feature story on the big icp annual gathering (2010 edition).

theZigZagJuggalo
Aug. 31, 2010 11:52am MST

any of the adults that look down on loz and lettez for what we like need to relize that they are just doin the same thing to us that happen to people in the 50's and 60's for listening to ROCK music things like FLeetwood Mac

village voice article is pretty great. breaking no new ground, but thorough, well-written, entertaining.

Drug Bridge Over Troubled Waters

As I think someone said upthread, the more I read about ICP, the more respect I have for them. This is a really interesting interview:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/violent-j-of-insane-clown-posse,45406/

They seem like two perfectly reasonable businessmen.

J often gives great interviews

(*Custos Anally Impales 'crawler' with a Titan IV Missile ICBM and shoots it into high orbit.*)

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A "cult-like gang":

CLINTON — A man accused of chopping his mother-in-law to death with a hatchet is a member of the Insane Clown Posse gang, an expert testified Monday.

As Robert Edward Fritts’ murder trial entered its second week, prosecutors introduced evidence linking him to ardent followers of the horror-themed, ultra-violent hip-hop band who have embarked on crime sprees.

Insane Clown Posse gang members live on the edge of society and adhere to an “almost cult-like religion,” said Detective Sgt. Tom Walker, supervisor of the Knox County Sheriff’s Office’s gang investigation unit.

“I believe he (Fritts) is a member of the (Insane Clown Posse) gang,’’ Walker told the nine-woman, three-man Anderson County jury.

Evidence introduced Monday revealed Fritts’ fascination with both the band and hatchets. ...

fuckin hatchets how do they work?

Times review/interview on the front page of the arts section yesterday

Read that as 'Robert Edward Fripp'

have ICP embarked on many crime sprees or is that just pisspoor writing?

Yeah, bad writing. I assume it means "followers' have embarked on violent crime sprees. But it makes it sound like ICP are out robbing banks and shooting shit up.

that is some fucking absolutely embarrassing shit

but whiney these fans live on the edge of society

"the young man likely relied on his heavy military training, having been a longtime member of the Kiss Army"

hahaha

robble robble

but whiney these fans live on the edge of society

Technically, "my step-mom's basement" probably qualifies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gKE67L97SA

oh my god
i watched so much of that

go to 25:20 for an lol at all the band names

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/nov/01/juggalos-classified-as-gang-fbi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXRAQyiqx-M

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/309262_424487530950923_111207468_n.jpg

RIP

Is that a Faygo bottle holder there on the left? That's handy!

http://juggalosonokcupid.tumblr.com/

aw i feel bad that juggalos are some kind of joke :(((

and i like that juggalobook exists

https://twitter.com/kiala/status/340534183606759424/photo/1

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BLnSCShCMAAoq7-.jpg:large

Why has there never been a juggalo movie? like a juggalo superhero or crime fighter? or at least bad guys in a batman movie

the Joker dude

would like to hear The Juggalo Aunts, kinda Velvet Crush-like horrorcore vibes

Why has there never been a juggalo movie? like a juggalo superhero or crime fighter? or at least bad guys in a batman movie

there have been at least two

ICP are playing in Oakland this summer. I almost want to go.

my friend's facebook comment:
"I thought I passed a group of Juggalos this morning on my way to work. Which was weird enough. Turns out it was actually Insane Clown Posse."

http://gothamist.com/2013/06/08/photos_insane_clown_posse_are_hangi.php

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/17/insane-clown-posse-icp-lawsuit-andrea-pellegrini_n_3943229.html

one of the headlines of the year, surely
http://www.freep.com/article/20140723/NEWS05/307230032/

http://i.imgur.com/Y1vnoVr.gifKid Rock subpoenaed to produce glass sex toy in Insane Clown Posse lawsuithttp://i.imgur.com/Y1vnoVr.gif

I guess the Gathering is going on right now.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-tattoo-beating-20140805,0,5506278.story

Two Hebron residents were charged Monday with attempted murder and assault for beating a man, attempting to carve a tattoo from his arm, and setting him on fire, police said. The victim remains in critical condition at a burn center in Baltimore, the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office said.

The incident occurred Monday just after 1 a.m. on the 7200 block of Rockawalkin Rd. in Hebron, police said. Officials say Paul Martin Hurst, 33, of Hebron and Cary Lee Edwards, 35, of Williamsburg, Va. began beating Zachary Swanson, 31, after an argument in the Hebron residence the three men share.

The suspects then tried to forcibly remove a tattoo from Swanson's arm, police said. After failing to remove the tattoo, the suspects set fire to the victim's arm, police said. The victim was left on the ground for several hours and suffered severe burns, police said, before he was driven to the Peninsula Regional Medical Center and subsequently flown to a burn center in Batlimore.

Both suspects have been charged with first and second degree attempted murder, first and second degree assault, reckless endangerment and a deadly weapon charge.

Officials say there is a strong possibility the suspects and the victim are connected with the Juggalos, a group of fans of the Detroit hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse. Police said the victim's tattoo was "consistent" with the fan group, which the FBI has classified as a gang.

people are starting to become more charitable to juggalos, right? there is a strong undercurrent of classism in most writing about them that I think is pretty mean spirited

... and well deserved.

some people just ain't down with the clown

https://m.facebook.com/NationalTakeAJuggaloToRedLobsterDay?refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&_rdr

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/676971916/faygo-huntin-made-simple-with-this-new-app

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/profiles/maw.jpg
http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/29100000/insane-clown-posse-insane-clown-posse-29168492-500-332.jpg

Both got guys named "Dope" too. Just saying.

Kenny Dope Gonzalez and ... Little Louie Vega? When did he use the name "Dope?"

just watched Buffalo Juggalos and EVERYBODY should stop what they're doing and see it now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qof7oEfiU1c
It's a half an hour and on MUBI and they offer a free trial so go see it now.
https://mubi.com/films/buffalo-juggalos
Whiney G, I'm talking to you here.

It's less an exposé and more of an ICP thesis statement: a beautifully paced, wordless (and, thank god, without music) series of short video portraits of clown-faced juggalos in situ, self-medicating with sex, violence, drugs and family. The visuals owe something to Avedon and Arbus but the ethos is an insider perspective of post-dada nihilism that regularly lights on an unironically detached direct gaze. The guiding spirits are the impassible sadness of hopelessness, the absurdity of modern displacement (the alpaca scene elicited genuine and surprise laughter), the tenderness of shared experience and the haunted house posturing of threat without menace... a briefly glimpsed felony, the breaking of a brick over an unprotesting man's head and a fervent bout of cunnilingus all are presented without impact but not without meaning. More than any other treatise I've seen on the subject, this film portrays Juggalos as profoundly disconnected, half-impotent droogs trading on self-expression to communicate, marooned in a world that is no more or less ludicrous than painting your inner Pagliacci on your face, declaring defeat before they even begin to try.

totally people should watch this if they're curious but just fwiw & as counterpoint i found it kind of a mean experiment & a mainly pretty vapid film; it alternates between indulging the most surface-level gaze at another weird american community, & drifting into the filmmaker's kinda installation-art image making, which is fine (i liked the inking scene) but feels just so limited, to me, like more obnoxiously confrontational weird americana porn that doesn't go an inch beyond what we already know or expect. agree w/ a bunch of what you wrote but to me the icp thesis statement just feels so impressed, like it has the uncritical eye of a propaganda video. maybe because it lives within that thesis statement zone it's fine, i don't know.

also alpaca scene just really bummed me out