Jugganauts: The Best of Icp [Explicit Lyrics]

Insane Clown Posse | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 30, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Island Records
• ASIN: B000VKJ6T0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,443 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #92 in Music > Rock > Rap Rock

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About the Artist

The midway is lit. The rides are on. The carneys are barking from the game stands and the sideshows are in full, glorious operation.

The Insane Clown Posse is back in town, and if you thought the dynamic duo from Detroit was bizarre before, they're doubly so now.

Are you scared yet?

Bizzar and Bizaar are the two -- that's right, two -- new albums from ICP. We're talking two separate 12-track journeys into the unique psychoses of Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, as in-your-face and uncompromising as ever, but with a few surprises along the way. Bizaar and Bizzar are easily distinguished by their individual, over-sized packages, each of which is laden with photos and even games to play while the everyone's favorite wicked clowns are raising hell on the speakers.

Just don't land on the game square that designates you as a herpes carrier and sends you back a few spaces.

"This record is really, really relaxed, and it's fun," says Violent J. "The reason it's fun is because we stopped trying to reach the mainstream audience. In other words, instead of trying to convert everybody into listening to our shit, this one's just for the juggalos out there."

There are plenty of those, too. Over the course of the past decade and five albums - Carnival of Carnage (1991), Ringmaster (1993), Riddlebox (1995), The Great Milenko (1997) and The Amazing Jeckel Brothers (1999), plus countless singles and EPs -- ICP's juggalo fan base has expanded like a hungry colony that can't get enough of their favorite wicked clowns. They regularly make ICP's releases platinum sellers, and thousands of them trekked to suburban Detroit last summer for the first annual Gathering of Juggalos, a two-day festival of everything ICP.

So when ICP set out to make Bizzar and Bizaar with longtime producer and chief collaborator Mike E. Clark, the juggalos - "saluted on the albums as "the certain, chosen few" - were the first and only thing on their minds.

"We went in to record with no pressure," says J, "just knowing this was for our own little world. We're never gonna sell 10 million records, never gonna get nominated for Grammys, never gonna make the cover of Billboard -- unless we pay for it. Nobody is gonna say 'Look at the standards these guys have set. Look at how well they provide for their fans.'"

"So on these records we said 'Fuck it. Let's make a double album, pack it full of the shit everybody loves us for, shit all the juggalos like. Let's give 'em that in fat doses.' That's what we did."

J is being -- believe it or not -- a bit modest. ICP never goes into the studio to repeat itself, so Bizzar and Bizaar continue the creative growth the duo has pursued ever since childhood friends J and Shaggy started slapping on the grease paint during 1991. As producer Clark says, "It's a little more sophisticated. The writing is better. The tracks are better -- but still very ICP."

With only a modicum of guests this time -- including ICP cohorts Twiztid and legendary Detroit rapper Esham -- the songs on Bizzar and Bizaar run the gamut from straight-up hip-hop to rocking guitar tracks and ICP's old skool horrorcore. Twists? This crop of songs has a doozy in "Let's Go All the Way," a remake of the 1986 pop hit by Sly Fox recorded with the Detroit rock band Perpetual Hype Machine. "It's just a crack-up," says J. "I'm singing on that, but...I changed all the lyrics in the song except for the chorus."

"Radio Star" finds J and Shaggy taking their shot at radio formats by trying their hand at different genres of radio music in a faux effort to get played. "Please Don't Hate Me" mines a sweet acoustic guitar arrangement under some typically wicked ICP lyrics that wreak a little vengeance on a particularly disrespectful hip-hop colleague. "Homey Baby Mam Drama" is the kind of nursery rhyme you won't put on any toddler's tapes, while tracks like "My Axe," "Still Stabbin'" and "What" slam with the kind of ferocity the juggalos expect and demand from their heroes.

"What I like about this record is it's really, really entertaining all the way through," says Clark. "Let yourself go and get into the Clown of Insane Clown Posse and not take this shit so seriously and so literal. With ICP, people take things so seriously; they're not getting the clown aspect of the band."

Entertainment of the highest order has been the goal since ICP's beginnings. Fans of broad range of music, J and Shaggy cut their own stylistic path with their makeup, daringly explicit lyrics and an aggressive, energetic stage show that over the years has included elaborate sets, top-notch production values and the hysterically sticky tradition of spraying copious amounts of Faygo soda pop around the stage and on its crowds. Thanks to the savvy, street-level guerrilla marketing by the duo and its Psychopathic Records posse of ninjas, ICP's juggalo crew has been serviced by not only the music

and live performances but also by comic books, videos (including the feature film Big Money Hustlas), an extensive and inventive line of merchandise, and the rough-and-tumble side project Worldwide Championshit Wrestling.

ICP -- which distinguished itself at last year's Woodstock festival by taping money to the bottom of giant balloons it sent sailing into the crowd -- readily acknowledges this is all for some tastes and not for others. After singing with Hollywood Records during the mid-`90s, the group made international headlines when Disney executives (Hollywood's owners) discovered just what their subsidiary had signed when it got an earful of The Great Milenko. It may have been too much for the Mouse, but Island Records was quick to give ICP safe haven for Milenko, The Amazing Jeckel Brothers and now the one-two punch of Bizzar and Bizaar.

"We recorded these strictly on the talent we know we've got, and we iced it," J says with pride. "And I have no question we will once again reign supreme by making all the critics' worst album lists of 2000. But you know what -- fuck `em. This isn't for them." Adds Shaggy, "It's for us, and it's for the juggalos. If you're down with it, come on in, `cause it's way dope; if you're not, then don't even bother. Just stay the fuck away."

Product Description

The long awaited greatest hits from the Detroit Duo.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars lazy, November 11, 2007

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J. Irps "krazejjklown" (sparta) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jugganauts: The Best of Icp (Audio CD)

this was the laziest greatest hits album i have ever seen. the only albums they included were the great milenko, bizarre/bizaare, and the amazing jeckel brothers. considering the vast quantity of music they have released (not just the jokers cards) i am terribly disappointed with this album. even when i didn't completely like what they had released on certain albums (super villians:furious, and the dark lotus revisited) i wasn't actually disappointed. 7 tracks of the 18 were from the Great Milenko. what kind of greatest hits is this? if they really wanted to make some money off this album, they should have put a little fan consideration into it, even something small as only having 17 tracks.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Insane Clown Posse - "Jugganauts: The Best Of ICP" (2 stars), July 30, 2008

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Justin Linker (Ninja In Action) "Superior Kun... (Midland, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jugganauts: The Best of Icp (Audio CD)

Many Juggalos will agree with me when I say that this "best of" album came out of nowhere. I was hoping that there would be a few new tracks lodged in here. But there is absolutely nothing different.
If you're a Juggalo who knows about the Insane Clown Posse, then I'm sure that you will be on my side when I say this is not worth our time. I only purchased this in hopes of a new hidden track or even interludes after each track. But no. There's nothing.

The reason I consider this a 2 star instead of a flat out 1 is because this album would be quite helpful for the newcomers trying to get a taste of what The Wicked Clownz are about. This serves as a pretty good appetizer. But to those (like myself) who are educated on the Insane Clown Posse, then this is nothing more than a mere money-maker for the seemingly struggling Island Records to attempt to squeeze Juggalos for some loot. Good thing I bought it used, I'm not spending another dime on Island Records. This was a clear move to catch some easy money. The shocking part about it is, the Insane Clown Posse actually supported it. Why? To this day, that remains a mystery to me.

Here's my individual track ratings.

01. "Great Milenko" (N/A)
02. "Hokus Pokus" (A+) (favorite)
03. "Piggy Pie (Old School) (ft. Steve Jones)" (A)
04. "The Neden Game" (A)
05. "Halls Of Illusions (ft. Slash)" (A+)
06. "Mad Professor" (B+)
07. "Boogie Woogie Wu" (A+)
08. "Cherry Pie (I Need A Freak)" (A+)
09. "Another Love Song" (B)
10. "Rainbows & Stuff (ft. Paper Tiger)" (B-) (least favorite)
11. "I Want My Sh**" (A)
12. "F**k The World" (A)
13. "B**ches (ft. Ol' Dirty B**tard)" (A)
14. "My Axe" (B)
15. "Tilt-A-Whirl" (A+)
16. "Please Don't Hate Me" (A)
17. "Let's Go All The Way (ft. Perpetual Hype Engine)" (B-)
18. "What Is A Juggalo?" (A+)

Now don't get me wrong, I love the songs on this album, but I don't care if all 18 tracks were straight A+ I wouldn't raise the rating. As that wouldn't remove the fact that this is just a near blasphemous way to make money. I recommend this to nobody but to those who don't know much about ICP, but are interested, this has a great song selection for you to get to know them. I also recommend this to those who are in love with Island Records and don't want to see its downfall. Other than that. Let it collect all the dust it can possibly hold. Peace.

~ Raw hide

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great For New Listeners! However.., March 10, 2011

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Warlock253 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jugganauts - The Best Of ICP [Explicit] (MP3 Download)

I gave this 4 stars mostly because of the greatness of the music but it definitely lacks in being a fully complete greatest hits album just the fact that chicken huntin isn't on it says enough

Also as a supporter of ICP I wouldn't recommend buying this CD as it was released by Island and probably without ICP's consent. I'd highly suggest you buy the original albums these songs are off of: Great Melinko, Forgotten Freshness Vol 1 & 2, Amazing Jeckel Bros. & Both Bizaars'!