That's cool! Shaggy says the idea for the lyrics came when one of the ICP road crew brought some magnets into the recording studio one day and they spent ages playing with them in wonderment. Because I look at my five-year-old son and I'm explaining to him what fog is and he thinks it's incredible.
Because they're just like you, explaining things to people…". Then he waves his hands as if to say, "OK, an analogy": "If you're trying to fuck a girl, but her mom's home, fuck her mom! You understand?
You want to fuck the girl, but her mom's home? Fuck the mom. But for this moment when you're trying to fuck this girl, fuck her! And that's what we mean when we say fuck scientists. Sometimes they kill all the cool mysteries away. When I was a kid, they couldn't tell you how pyramids were made…".
I like to believe it was something out of this world. They're in their late 30s. Their career, while at times truly glittering, is littered with inadvertent mistakes.
Born and raised in Christian homes in Detroit, they've known each other since high school. Fighting, food stamps, I was a fucking thief for a living, hustling, getting money, we were balls deep in that shit. Their first band, Inner City Posse , was without clown make-up. They were gangsta rappers, and consequently found themselves behaving in a gangster-like manner.
In , Violent J was jailed for 90 days for death threats, robbery and violating probation. When he got out, he and Shaggy made some life-defining decisions.
How could they keep their rap career going but move away from the destructive gang lifestyle? How could they change the band's name but keep the initials ICP? People liked the initials ICP. And then it came to them in a flash: Insane Clown Posse! Killer clown rap! It was the perfect outlet for their emotions. Write about the pain and the anger through the prism of horror-movie imagery. A whole new genre. We don't get video play. We get nothing. This is our video play…" He indicates the dressing room.
We didn't have no Jay-Z telling everyone, 'Hey, look at these guys, we're friends with them, listen to them. This aspect of things might have turned out rather differently had Violent J not made their first big error. It was One night they were in a club when a young man handed them a flyer inviting them to a party. I don't know. That's why I'm asking you right now. Are you guys coming to my party or what? That boy grew up to be Eminem and, incensed, he's been publicly deriding ICP ever since in lyrics such as, "ICP are overrated and hated because of their false identities ".
An observation that turned out to be prophetic. There's a small silence. He looks torn between revealing them or maintaining the mystery. He shoots Shaggy a glance. Only you truly know the answer to your own riddle box. We're asking the listener, what is in your own riddle box if you were to die today?
In The Ringmaster, we say when you die you have to face your own beast. Somebody who has lived a life of religion, they face a very small and weak beast when they die. But somebody who's an evil bastard will have to face a monster. The question is, how big is your ringmaster? If, God forbid, you were hit by a car. Ask yourself, Jon. She hit me in the balls.
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