Stitches, Esham, Mac Lethal, Ouija Macc, DJ Paul, & Cage) (2019) You been around 30 years, brother, anything you can do that’s different is cool. I just think it might be what I’d want to hear if I was in that state. I tried to bring up some of the freshness about the world that you might overlook when you’re in the day-to-day of mundane life. Luckily, that was a Clown Clip, so I could give him a two-parter. He was like, “We’ve been to 17 Gatherings! Talk some sense into him, J!” And I’m like: Four minutes, 30 seconds, and I’m going to do something that you and your dad couldn’t do? This is going to be tough. Me and my dad, we drive into Columbus looking for him when he hasn’t been home in days, and we check the morgue” - all this deep, sad shit. The guy was like, “Man, my older brother is going off the deep end. I got one the other day, and it was deep. Sometimes, I’m on a roll, and I like what I’m saying. It’s like, fuuuuck! And then you gotta do it all again. I’ll be like, “I killed it!” And then I go to send it, and it’ll be two seconds over. I can get away with that on Custom Clown Clips, but Cameo, you can’t get away with that. Some of them, I was like, “Fuck that, that one was too good,” and I started sending part one and part two. I’ve gone over the limits, and it won’t send. I’ve discovered that they can’t be over four minutes and 30 seconds long. VIOLENT J: It’s not a good thing, though.
If you’ve seen other people’s Cameos, a lot of the time they’re just 30 seconds. STEREOGUM: You’re good at them! You put real time into all of them. For some reason, those things take me forever, man.
If we don’t do them, they’ll stack up on you. We’ve got to do those pretty much every day. Ours is called Custom Clown Clips, and it’s also the Cameo things. STEREOGUM: I was wondering how often you put the facepaint on during quarantine. Custom Clown Clips and Cameo videos (2020)
Violent J, I learned, is an excellent storyteller. On a Zoom call from the Psychopathic Records offices in Michigan, Violent J, the more talkative half of ICP, spoke with us for a long time, telling us about some fascinating moments from ICP’s back pages. Nobody else in the entire history of popular music has ever had a career anything like that of the Wicked Clowns. They live for their fans, and their fans live for them. In the name of the Juggalos, ICP sued the FBI and marched on Washington. ICP have been treated as a pop-culture punchline for years - when they and their fans haven’t been treated as something to be feared - but they’re also a DIY success story and a rallying point for a whole lot of people who really need one. Since they first put on the clown makeup nearly three decades ago, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope have built up a fascinating cult around themselves, and they’ve been fierce, ardent defenders of that cult. That’s the way things tend to go for the Insane Clown Posse. Their announcement is heartbroken, determined, and compassionate: “The bottom line is simply that we REFUSE to risk even ONE Juggalo life by hosting a Gathering during these troubling times.” In April, the members of the long-running Detroit duo Insane Clown Posse were forced to tell their fans that the Gathering Of The Juggalos, their annual family reunion, couldn’t happen this year. Most of the cancellation announcements have been brief and businesslike, but one was emotional. This summer, every festival is cancelled. We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.
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