![]() The Gathering of the Juggalos is like the horror-rap equivalent of the Hajj. I know, because I just spent the weekend with a good 6,000 of them. Wait, actually I just tried that and it really wasn’t that impressive, but trust me, they are big and forever getting bigger. ![]() If you want some scope of their national coverage, just plug the word “Juggalo” into google. The Family spread rapidly across the poorer swaths of the Midwest and established a huge and more or less self-sufficient underground with its own distribution network, porn, churches (seriously), charities, file-sharing services, anti-drunk-driving coalition (JADD), initiatory secret society, GLBT activist, pro- and backyard-wrestling circuits, and two MySpace variations ( and the possibly defunct ). Basically, they trumped all previous claims of FTW, and then wrote a nearly unlistenable song called “Fuck the World” just to hammer the point home.īut while everybody else was busy acting like they were above gems such as “Bugz On My Nutz,” Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope were forging a media empire for their base of extremely devoted followers, the Juggalo Family-sort of like a rap-alliance between Deadheads and the KISS Army. It’s almost as if ICP intentionally cherry-picked the worst aspects of goth, punk, gangsta rap, rave, nu-metal, and real metal to create a sub-culture so universally repulsive as to forestall any attempts at outside involvement. ![]() With the possible exception of the Jews, no other group has eaten as big an amount of shit over the course of its existence as the Juggalos.įrom the earliest reviews of the Insane Clown Posse’s singular brand of circus-themed swear-rap, the general contention has been that there is no way music could possibly sink below this point. “ What is a Juggalo? A dead body / Well he ain’t really dead, but he ain’t like anybody that you’ve ever met before / He’ll eat Monopoly and shit out Connect Four.” –ICP, “What is a Juggalo?” In the Land of the Juggalos A Juggalo Is King ![]()
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