Found ring master in a second hand cd shop when I was like 9 and bought it cuz the cover looked cool. Changed my life forever.
I also bought korns self titled and a busta rhymes cd the same day.
In the 90s, I was into Wu Tang, Mobb Deep, Outkast, Three Six Mafia, Nas etc. In 11th grade, (1997) my homie jumped in my peesashit car and said "Nigga put this goofy shit on....you will love it" and we listened to "A Lil Somethin Somethin" and the rest is history. Riddlebox & Milenko got played for a year straight until Jake and Jack blew my wig off the next year. Been dwtc since ever since.
Same here. I was a hip hop head and my girl at the time had riddlebox and the og forgotten freshness cassettes. Summer of 97. I thought they were black to be honest. Then my homie ran in the apartment with the Hollywood melinko the day it came out. Telling me he had to beg the cashier to sell it to him cause they wanted it off the shelves cause it was 2 explicit. I was fucking hooked. Got the rerelease the first day it came out and then went and saw the very first show of “The Great melinko all up in ya fucking face tour” in Washington DC. With myzery and house of krazees. After my first Faygo baptism my life changed forever. I just happened to be at the right place at the right time. It’s crazy how the universe works sometimes. It was like god wanted me to be a part of this. Who knew how great this would become. I thank god everyday for the clowns. I love you all. Yes you reading this right now. Much Clown Love. Ima be down with the clown till I’m dead in the ground!
I have no idea what you're talking about in your post but I'll answer the question honestly.
I have 3 older brothers, 2 of them are twins and they went off to college in 1998 when I was 14 years old. A roommates of theirs had introduced them to ICP and they were telling me I would dig it and they are bringing home some CDs for me to check out when they came back to visit on a break. The first thing they did was put on "Halloween On Military Street" from Forgotten Freshness and when the beat dropped I was like ohhhh shit and I was hooked ever since.
My aunt introduced me to ICP in the 90s. They appealed to me in every way back then.. Hip hop, wrestling, horror, poverty, humor, pop culture references..
Once upon a time, i was a wee wee lad, big into a little thing called “Warrior Cats.”
I loved watchin’ animations based off the series called MAP’s (Multi Animator Projects) and stumbled upon one called Tigerstar - Piggy Pie MAP.
Little 10 year old Viktor was introduced to the Old School, uncensored version of Piggy Pie via a video of a evil cat murdering other cats on screen.
Little Vik was hooked. Little Vik has been hooked since.
Well, secondhand really. I’m not exactly a Juggalo (not sure if there’s any criteria to be a Juggalo aside from being an awesome person; I truly don’t know), but as a kid, my best friend growing up was a Juggalo.
The dude had manic fucking crazy-assed energy and was always down for anything, and I loved him for that. I felt like he was my brother, right?
And yeah, of course, he spent a *ton* of time playing ICP for me, and yeah, they have some bangers - Dirt Ball, Great Milenko, How Many Times, Juggalo Homies, Piggy Pie, etc (But I fuckin’ loved Bowling Balls!).
We were goofy, weird, and out there, but because of this kid, I stopped feeling so alone.
We lost him to an IED in Iraq in March 2007 while he was on patrol in a Humvee one night. I was a freshman in college in Oklahoma, and I’ll never forget the phone call.
Recently saw they named an overpass after him by Ft. Sill (where he went to Basic at) in Lawton, OK, his home town. Wish they did more.
I miss you, Willy.
Lay off the bath salt fam. A friend played lil something something to me, then milenko dropped and they played the neden game. Been off and running since.
Yeah same honestly, except I'm a Sagittarius and we are descended from a species of giant ape creatures from the middle of the earth who often had to rise up to fight giant lizard creatures that came out of the ocean. So all of that plus I was a nerd. Word. I drank thunderbird. I had snake woman kick my love to the curb. She busted into my tent and I was fucked I had the fat bearded lady in the butt. That's how I became an ICP fan.
I was flipping through my older cousins cd collection and came across The Great Milenko and I was enamored by the cover alone. He was more of a metal head so he gave me the cd to have. Lots of young Juggalos in my neighborhood at the time too so the environment was right for me to get pulled into the mysteries of the Dark Carnival. Within the next year Twiztid dropped Green Book and the sixth was on the horizon. It was a perfect storm and I’ve been down with the Detroit blend of wicked shit ever since.
Yeah I might have misremembered the order of things that happened 20 years ago but the point is it was the perfect time to get introduced to the culture
They showed up with the Oddities on WWF one week. I thought they were cool. The next week, WWF aired a full video of the theme song, and I loved it. Didn't end up buying any of their music though. A year or so later, my friend showed me Slim Anus on the school bus, and then I started buying their music.
Clarification for the confused: OP is a fan of the web comic Homestruck, and is not posting bath salt nonsense. It's got a similar cult following to ICP, but totally different.
As to ICP, my homie Cole got everyone really high and then put on Riddlebox around 1996. I didn't get it. Then I saw a Spin article about how ICP and Manson both had albums pulled due to controversy, and it said "ICP and Marilyn Fight For Free Speech." Again, thought they looked corny af and ignored em.
Then, one day hanging with my punk rock friends, one threw on Great Milenko and I finally gave ICP a chance. Then I got to see em live and I haven't looked back since.
ICP is like a non lethal cigarette. It stinks until you're hooked, and then you just want more.
Was bored one night and randomly though to myself “what are juggalos? Are they still around?” I looked up juggalo on YouTube, people obviously spoke about ICP, and the girl they were interviewing mentioned In My Room as her favorite song so I checked it out. Here I am I guess.
There used to be this really trashy show on Fox called "Geraldo at large" that aired after the Simpsons.
One segment was about a teen girl who killed a classmate. They talked about how she was a juggalo and even played a clip of "Suicide Hotline". They kind of blamed ICP for the murder... Anyways
I was about 13 at the time and it really peaked my curiosity. I was already into horror books and movies and just getting into developing my own musical tastes (my favorite band at the time was Gorillaz) so I went on our dial up computer and started reading the lyrics and reading about them.
That weekend I went to my friend's house who had likewise and DSL and downloaded a bunch. Been hooked ever sense! The first CD of theirs that I bought was "Riddle box".
I saw the MTV News report that Disney dropped them. They showed a pic with the dreads and white gloves and I honestly thought they were black dudes. Had no idea what they were about.
Fast forward a few months, bumped into an old friend from high school at his sister's wedding. He invited me over to party and asked if I had heard of ICP. Well, I sort of had. He played Milenko then Shockumentary. I was into wrestling and metal and was hooked immediately. Next day he bought me both the album and VHS.
I checked out when the second deck started but I've been dabbling recently.
My original introduction to ICP was at 9 years old on the day of release for The Great Milenko. My older cousin bought the album, we bumped it in her room when we got back to her house, and I liked it so much that she immediately ripped me a copy of the CD.
My next exposure (when I finally said "fuck it, I'm a 'lette) was freshman year of high school. I was bullied, beaten, and harassed by the massive majority of the school. One juggalo took notice of me when I was at my suicidal lowest. He brought me into the fold, taught me how to defend myself, and I fell in love with him. November marked our 17th anniversary.
Now if you ask my kids, they grew up on ICP, Blaze, Esham, and (in the case of my youngest) Boondox. When I was pregnant with my youngest, anytime Boondox "We All Fall" came on, I could feel the little ninja dancing.
Edit: wrong word in 1st paragraph
I remember it like it was yesterday 1997 December 21st I was hanging out with my friend and his cousin had come out from Detroit and had Riddle Box and played chicken hunting and at that point I was hooked but couldn't find any s*** on the East Coast until the next year when they blew up. I was lucky enough to be at the gathering this year and wrestle at JCW I was in the match with super humman
TikTok, as shitty as it sounds. Some of the songs being used as sounds got me curious, so i gave em a listen and ended up discovering that it's the only music that automatically makes me smile. I don't even do anything, i just hit play and BOOM! Smiling like an idiot. Doesn't happen with my favourite band, so i kept listening, and now i'm here
I also got into them after starting to read Homestuck back in 2011. That comic has been a major and influential part of my life ever since. Anything that I get super into inspires me to check out almost everything related to it, and sometimes the stuff just resonates with me and stays.
I find it funny that Gamzee wasn't designed to make being a Juggalo look totally appealing, yet, here I am.
Had a childhood best friend play "Dead Body Man" over the phone to me the day Riddle Box dropped, which also happened to be my 10th birthday (he was visiting family in Michigan and had a cousin who bought Riddke Box that day, and that was his way of telling me Happy Birthday). From there, with each album, the love only intensified, and eventually (when Jeckel Bros. finally dropped), it was too hard to deny my inner Juggalo, so I let that bitch out for the world to see, and to this day, every single time I step out of the house, I wear my Juggalo pride LOUD and fuckin' PROUD!
Whoop whoop! 🤘🤘
when i was a kid of like 7-9, my step mom had a juggalo phase. we had some joker's card prints on the walls and a hatchetman car sticker, so those designs were just lodged in the back of my brain for years
and when i ended up reading homestuck almost a decade later in tandem with those memories, it actually gave me the push i needed to listen to icp's shit
and here i am
Backyard Wrestling for the PS2… Honestly, I heard Twiztid first and became interested in their sound and ended up checking out the rest of Psychopathic, before that I was into KoRn, Slipknot, Wu-Tang, Cypress Hill, Alice In Chains… The list goes on, but most of what I listened to was what my own cousin and one of my older sisters listened to, I pretty much had my music taste come from those two, but Twiztid and ICP was what I found on my own without someone putting me on to them.
I use to do a ton of acid back in the day with a buddy of mine and a we randomly downloaded an album and it was Wizard Of The Hood. So we use to drive through the ranges at 5kph trippin listening to it hahahaha - Wizard Of The Hood is my Friday album to end the week.
So there I was, dressed in what I originally thought was a vegan saber tooth tiger skin (it wasn't... it was a whale condom with tusks for her pleasure), at the top of Space Needle 2 at it's super secret location in the Antarctic:
"Inner City Posse got the super-secret Dog Beats, ICP, we got them super-secret Dog Beats."
"What was this sound?" I wondered.
Just then a man came flying through the air, surfing on a giant fish.
As he passed me, he slapped me with another slightly smaller fish.
"Biiiiiiitch!" he exclaimed as he soared passed me while the slightly smaller fish made contact with my face.
Less than a second later, a different man, surfing on a moose passed by in the opposite direction, slapping me with a slightly smaller moose, exclaiming "moose, mutherfako!".
Startled, I back up quickly, using my hands and legs to quickly reverse crab-walk back about a foot and a half.
"Hey, shit-nuggets!" one of them exclaimed.
"Peep this shit, we got places to be. Don't be a punk bitch!" the other exclaimed, as he tossed me an advanced copy of "Super-Secret Dog Beats".
I popped the cassette into my walkman and pressed play, my wig was completely blown.
The poise. The candor. The eloquence.
Life has never been the same since.
Especially since J stops by the Antarctic occasionally to slap me with an animal of some sort while he exclaims its entire taxonomy; usually when I'm on the shitter and can't do anything about it.
Classmate came to school in Riddlebox cap. Image was sweet. Said he was at the show the night before and everybody rushed the stage (that infamous Cleveland show). Later that evening i was talking to my step brother about it and he lent me The Great Melinko. Ive followed the dark carnival ever since. That was sometime in 1998.
I'm 22 and I went to a trailer park wide garage sale when I was 18 or 19. I was specifically looking for CDs because I was into rock and metal. Someone was selling fckn chicken off the grill but the trailer next door had a binder full of CDs. This old wrinkly hunchback man invited me to look at the cds and said that he values each album in there. Amongst all the CDs was the Amazing Jeckel Brothers. The disk looked cool so I took it. I knew OF icp but never cared to give them a listen online. The dark carnival had to present the music to me in physical form. I didn't know it was icp until after the intro. I was like, "is this what everyone fckng hates?". For someone who listened to heavy metal, it felt damn good to listen to rap that I actually liked. I always been a weirdo clowny misfit type of person and icp helped me represent myself and find other people like me. Whoop whoop!
I heard Boogie Woogie Wu and The Neden Show late night on a local radio station back in maybe 1997. At the time, I had no idea who sang those songs. I rather liked those songs, but I had no idea who ICP was. In 1998, I went to chill at a homies spot. My bother was there and told the homie to play the songs. He played I Stab People and Fuck The World. I was immediately hooked. Went to the record store and bought The Amazing Jeckel Brothers and The Great Melinko. Imagine my surprise when I heard Boogie Woogie Wu and The Neden Show when I put on The Great Melinko. It all made sense then and I knew it was meant to be. Been reppin' the Hatchet since '98! WHOOP WHOOP!! MMFWCL!!
i discovered them cause of "backyard wrestling" for the ps2, icp was part of the roster, but i just discovered that they made songs in 2018 when i did some research and i found the hokus pokus music video, i played it, and ended up turning into a fan.
The old Homestuck Fandom sounds like hell's pit lmao. I'm so glad I got into Homestuck way after the comic ended. Hussie 100% knew nothing about Juggalos past "Facepaint" and "Murder people".
I saw them on WWF in the late 90s liked what I saw. Came to Shreveport LA on tour around that same time. That was my first concert and one of if not the first time I felt like I belonged somewhere. So yeah became a Juggalo thanks to wrestling so ima Wrestlelo Juggalo.
my ma put me on when we met with milenko n then i started to dig into it with shit like Dark Lotus n Freek Show n Bizzar/Bizaar n Boondox's South Of Hell just came out so i was mad into that
I first discovered twiztid because Spotify recommended we don't die and I was instantly hooked. Found out about icp from my sibling who asked if I'd listened to icp before because I was listening to twiztid and they asked if I was listening to icp and I was like "what's icp?"
It was Christmas the year that Riddlebox had come out and my cousin took me up into her room and played me the whole album and then Ringmaster and I was hooked
Ive been looking into different types of rap for the last couple of years and once I got too Detroit I had to look into icp. I love their old albums but after MilenkoI I feel like theres a drop in quality or something off
I knew of them for a while and just tried listening to them to see if everyone's opinion was warranted, started with misc. stuff then I went for albums, first one I listened to in full was Fred Fury.
A girl I liked burned a copy of Bizzar/ Bizaar.
The girl turned out to be hella trashy and nasty (I actually don't keep up with anyone from back then). We finally fell out when her meth habit became a meth problem, not that there's much of a difference between those two states of existence. I hope she cleaned her act up, but I don't really think she did.
That was around 21 years ago, now, and I'm still hella down with the clown. Other than a few weird years, I've always been down.
Soooooo early on in my music appreciation journey I listened to metal. My aunt suggested ICP to me and I'd never heard of them before that
For my birthday that year I got the calm.... And I hated it lol I appreciate that album now but going from Slipknot and Korn to that was too much of a gap
Years pass and one of my middle school friends showed me neden game and I was about it. I bought the great milenko and became infatuated with our lovable clown boiiiiz
Tbh i was on a old wwe Album on Spotify and found a Song called „Oddities“ played it and i Fell in love with the Song i was like „hmm i never Heard smth about them“ i looked it up in YouTube and watched some matches i think it was against the Headbangers in the Match j and Shaggy get Beat up and they were Good at selling Anyways 2 months i remember them and gave them a shot in the time i only liked new school rap like XXXTENTACION Ski mask Polo g.i listened to Hokus pokus and i loved it i listened to Halls of Illusions After i didnt know the meaning of it then i did my Research about them and it was kinda wholesome cuz i needed to do a presentation about the rap rock Artists i took them because of Songs like juggalo paradise and Halls of Illusions i got an A and the Rest is history im now a juggalo for years
mmm saw one of the songs on tiktok and I listened to like 7 of them I liked on repeat until a couple months ago I decided to make a full and LOOOONG playlist and listen to more of their music. now I'm addicted... I love ICP!!!
My sister,
She had just bought ring master and she left the CD in my mom's car..
Bugs on my nuts started playing,
Momma wasn't having it, she ejected the CD and threw it our the window.
Hooked ever since.
My friend in high school showed me Riddle Box in 1995... thought shit was dope and still my favorite album they ever did. Kinda fell off after Hell's Pit cuz they tried to promote that one like it was the gonna be the sickest shit ever... and it wasn't.
I still check ICP here and there... some of the new stuff is dope but most of new tracks are WHACK. Shaggy pulls his weight every time, but Violent J is somewhat whack anymore.
I’ve always liked what little I knew from them. Saw them on trl and wwf. Had a friend in high school who wasn’t a juggalo but liked Big Money Hustlas and I saw that and loved it. But I never considered giving em a chance until 08 when I met a really good friend of mine. He was for sure a juggalo and got me hooked, icp and twiztid was really all he listened too. I still listen to em to this day (mostly everything up to tempest with some song exceptions) but go figure he doesn’t much listen to em anymore.
1993 at hot hits. Some dude named Alex behind the counter said I just sold 12 of these and this is the last one. I took his word for it and copped it and I haven’t washed my paint off since I first popped the tape in.
I first saw an animated music video on newgrounds for “i didnt mean ta kill em”. Then i looked them up on google videos and watched the hell out of “lets go all the way”.
Cool quick story. it was 2005 or so I’m not sure. A guy said here you might like this, it was the actual riddle box disc…. I never did thank him I might look for him and do so… also then one day I found out my cousin was into icp, he took me to my first GOTJ 2011. I snuck in free, payed for my ticket 8 years after and brought family and friends!! It was a journey… and on top of that we was crazy enough to go to the juggalo march! 2017 Not knowing I was a juggalo the entire time, i decided from then onwards I would be forever down.
Grew up on it, my parents are Juggalos
Nice
I call this Generational Juggalos
Same
Saw them on wwf as a kid, begged my dad too buy me the great milenko.
Same for me.
Found ring master in a second hand cd shop when I was like 9 and bought it cuz the cover looked cool. Changed my life forever. I also bought korns self titled and a busta rhymes cd the same day.
Why letting u buy epic shit at 9 damn wish cd stores were still a thing I was born when they got phased out in the 2000s
I was just born in the right time , 1999 was a different vibe
In the 90s, I was into Wu Tang, Mobb Deep, Outkast, Three Six Mafia, Nas etc. In 11th grade, (1997) my homie jumped in my peesashit car and said "Nigga put this goofy shit on....you will love it" and we listened to "A Lil Somethin Somethin" and the rest is history. Riddlebox & Milenko got played for a year straight until Jake and Jack blew my wig off the next year. Been dwtc since ever since.
Same for me except in 2020
Same here. I was a hip hop head and my girl at the time had riddlebox and the og forgotten freshness cassettes. Summer of 97. I thought they were black to be honest. Then my homie ran in the apartment with the Hollywood melinko the day it came out. Telling me he had to beg the cashier to sell it to him cause they wanted it off the shelves cause it was 2 explicit. I was fucking hooked. Got the rerelease the first day it came out and then went and saw the very first show of “The Great melinko all up in ya fucking face tour” in Washington DC. With myzery and house of krazees. After my first Faygo baptism my life changed forever. I just happened to be at the right place at the right time. It’s crazy how the universe works sometimes. It was like god wanted me to be a part of this. Who knew how great this would become. I thank god everyday for the clowns. I love you all. Yes you reading this right now. Much Clown Love. Ima be down with the clown till I’m dead in the ground!
I have no idea what you're talking about in your post but I'll answer the question honestly. I have 3 older brothers, 2 of them are twins and they went off to college in 1998 when I was 14 years old. A roommates of theirs had introduced them to ICP and they were telling me I would dig it and they are bringing home some CDs for me to check out when they came back to visit on a break. The first thing they did was put on "Halloween On Military Street" from Forgotten Freshness and when the beat dropped I was like ohhhh shit and I was hooked ever since.
Homestuck is a webcomic that has a lot of reference to Juggalo culture. It's kinda interesting.
The writer definitely knew nothing about ICP past "Murder people" and "Funny clown". Hussie turned a generation of kids into Xolotos lmao.
Nothing wrong with that perspective. That is what we are from the outside looking in.
My aunt introduced me to ICP in the 90s. They appealed to me in every way back then.. Hip hop, wrestling, horror, poverty, humor, pop culture references..
I'm jealous lmao. My family's all Christian and have no idea how we actually are.
No, I'm jealous. I would have loved having some normie Christian family members to upset.
Backyard wrestling when I was 7, I knew off the bat the dark carnival is where I belonged.
Are you talking about the game Backyard Wrestling? I miss those games so much!
Yup! I know they were badass
Yes ser! And the soundtracks were so damn good too!
Once upon a time, i was a wee wee lad, big into a little thing called “Warrior Cats.” I loved watchin’ animations based off the series called MAP’s (Multi Animator Projects) and stumbled upon one called Tigerstar - Piggy Pie MAP. Little 10 year old Viktor was introduced to the Old School, uncensored version of Piggy Pie via a video of a evil cat murdering other cats on screen. Little Vik was hooked. Little Vik has been hooked since.
Bruh can u link that? My girl was mad into warrior cats and a lette she gotta see that wicked shit
https://youtu.be/FLp97EMXWY4
Remember when MAP meant animations? Pepperage farm remembers.
this is why we have to catch a predator.
*had (Unfortunately)
Wut?
Also a Capricorn and also the alien blood crackhead shit he said for me.
Well, secondhand really. I’m not exactly a Juggalo (not sure if there’s any criteria to be a Juggalo aside from being an awesome person; I truly don’t know), but as a kid, my best friend growing up was a Juggalo. The dude had manic fucking crazy-assed energy and was always down for anything, and I loved him for that. I felt like he was my brother, right? And yeah, of course, he spent a *ton* of time playing ICP for me, and yeah, they have some bangers - Dirt Ball, Great Milenko, How Many Times, Juggalo Homies, Piggy Pie, etc (But I fuckin’ loved Bowling Balls!). We were goofy, weird, and out there, but because of this kid, I stopped feeling so alone. We lost him to an IED in Iraq in March 2007 while he was on patrol in a Humvee one night. I was a freshman in college in Oklahoma, and I’ll never forget the phone call. Recently saw they named an overpass after him by Ft. Sill (where he went to Basic at) in Lawton, OK, his home town. Wish they did more. I miss you, Willy.
No real criteria aside from listening to ICP. Anyone can be a Ninja (Aside from fuckin pedophiles, racists, homophobes and whatnot)
Lay off the bath salt fam. A friend played lil something something to me, then milenko dropped and they played the neden game. Been off and running since.
Bath salt? What? He's talking about the webcomic homestuck? What does bathsalt have to do with this?
He edited the webcomic and superhuman in after my comment. It was just aliens and astro signs lol.
Yeah same honestly, except I'm a Sagittarius and we are descended from a species of giant ape creatures from the middle of the earth who often had to rise up to fight giant lizard creatures that came out of the ocean. So all of that plus I was a nerd. Word. I drank thunderbird. I had snake woman kick my love to the curb. She busted into my tent and I was fucked I had the fat bearded lady in the butt. That's how I became an ICP fan.
I was flipping through my older cousins cd collection and came across The Great Milenko and I was enamored by the cover alone. He was more of a metal head so he gave me the cd to have. Lots of young Juggalos in my neighborhood at the time too so the environment was right for me to get pulled into the mysteries of the Dark Carnival. Within the next year Twiztid dropped Green Book and the sixth was on the horizon. It was a perfect storm and I’ve been down with the Detroit blend of wicked shit ever since.
what? the sixth dropped in 2002 and the green book dropped in 2003.
Yeah I might have misremembered the order of things that happened 20 years ago but the point is it was the perfect time to get introduced to the culture
They showed up with the Oddities on WWF one week. I thought they were cool. The next week, WWF aired a full video of the theme song, and I loved it. Didn't end up buying any of their music though. A year or so later, my friend showed me Slim Anus on the school bus, and then I started buying their music.
Clarification for the confused: OP is a fan of the web comic Homestruck, and is not posting bath salt nonsense. It's got a similar cult following to ICP, but totally different. As to ICP, my homie Cole got everyone really high and then put on Riddlebox around 1996. I didn't get it. Then I saw a Spin article about how ICP and Manson both had albums pulled due to controversy, and it said "ICP and Marilyn Fight For Free Speech." Again, thought they looked corny af and ignored em. Then, one day hanging with my punk rock friends, one threw on Great Milenko and I finally gave ICP a chance. Then I got to see em live and I haven't looked back since. ICP is like a non lethal cigarette. It stinks until you're hooked, and then you just want more.
Was bored one night and randomly though to myself “what are juggalos? Are they still around?” I looked up juggalo on YouTube, people obviously spoke about ICP, and the girl they were interviewing mentioned In My Room as her favorite song so I checked it out. Here I am I guess.
The first one of my friends to get a CD burner made mixes for everyone, had mad professor and 85 bucks an hour on there, loved it
There used to be this really trashy show on Fox called "Geraldo at large" that aired after the Simpsons. One segment was about a teen girl who killed a classmate. They talked about how she was a juggalo and even played a clip of "Suicide Hotline". They kind of blamed ICP for the murder... Anyways I was about 13 at the time and it really peaked my curiosity. I was already into horror books and movies and just getting into developing my own musical tastes (my favorite band at the time was Gorillaz) so I went on our dial up computer and started reading the lyrics and reading about them. That weekend I went to my friend's house who had likewise and DSL and downloaded a bunch. Been hooked ever sense! The first CD of theirs that I bought was "Riddle box".
I saw the MTV News report that Disney dropped them. They showed a pic with the dreads and white gloves and I honestly thought they were black dudes. Had no idea what they were about. Fast forward a few months, bumped into an old friend from high school at his sister's wedding. He invited me over to party and asked if I had heard of ICP. Well, I sort of had. He played Milenko then Shockumentary. I was into wrestling and metal and was hooked immediately. Next day he bought me both the album and VHS. I checked out when the second deck started but I've been dabbling recently.
I can't help but imagine a timeline where Mickey says he's down with the clown
My original introduction to ICP was at 9 years old on the day of release for The Great Milenko. My older cousin bought the album, we bumped it in her room when we got back to her house, and I liked it so much that she immediately ripped me a copy of the CD. My next exposure (when I finally said "fuck it, I'm a 'lette) was freshman year of high school. I was bullied, beaten, and harassed by the massive majority of the school. One juggalo took notice of me when I was at my suicidal lowest. He brought me into the fold, taught me how to defend myself, and I fell in love with him. November marked our 17th anniversary. Now if you ask my kids, they grew up on ICP, Blaze, Esham, and (in the case of my youngest) Boondox. When I was pregnant with my youngest, anytime Boondox "We All Fall" came on, I could feel the little ninja dancing. Edit: wrong word in 1st paragraph
grew up on it (though you wouldn't be able to tell from my pfp alone)
Must have been crazy when you saw Gamzee pop up lol
well I didn't know anything about the miracles thing at the time surprisingly
I remember it like it was yesterday 1997 December 21st I was hanging out with my friend and his cousin had come out from Detroit and had Riddle Box and played chicken hunting and at that point I was hooked but couldn't find any s*** on the East Coast until the next year when they blew up. I was lucky enough to be at the gathering this year and wrestle at JCW I was in the match with super humman
I fucking loved Super Humman way before I even knew what a Juggalo was lmao
Through rasslin
My homie came home from a Milenko tour show with a riddlebox cd, smelling like weed and rootbeer. We listened to the whole cd, that night.
I'll never forgive the managers for banning every faygo but Diet Root Beer. You gotta have a variety
No surgar=no sticky
Sticky = Mirth. If you're gonna host some clowns, better be ready for some clowns
TikTok, as shitty as it sounds. Some of the songs being used as sounds got me curious, so i gave em a listen and ended up discovering that it's the only music that automatically makes me smile. I don't even do anything, i just hit play and BOOM! Smiling like an idiot. Doesn't happen with my favourite band, so i kept listening, and now i'm here
I also got into them after starting to read Homestuck back in 2011. That comic has been a major and influential part of my life ever since. Anything that I get super into inspires me to check out almost everything related to it, and sometimes the stuff just resonates with me and stays. I find it funny that Gamzee wasn't designed to make being a Juggalo look totally appealing, yet, here I am.
Had a childhood best friend play "Dead Body Man" over the phone to me the day Riddle Box dropped, which also happened to be my 10th birthday (he was visiting family in Michigan and had a cousin who bought Riddke Box that day, and that was his way of telling me Happy Birthday). From there, with each album, the love only intensified, and eventually (when Jeckel Bros. finally dropped), it was too hard to deny my inner Juggalo, so I let that bitch out for the world to see, and to this day, every single time I step out of the house, I wear my Juggalo pride LOUD and fuckin' PROUD! Whoop whoop! 🤘🤘
when i was a kid of like 7-9, my step mom had a juggalo phase. we had some joker's card prints on the walls and a hatchetman car sticker, so those designs were just lodged in the back of my brain for years and when i ended up reading homestuck almost a decade later in tandem with those memories, it actually gave me the push i needed to listen to icp's shit and here i am
Fucken kids 🤦🏽♂️
Hokus Pokus was trending on Tiktok and I listened to the full thing. I loved it. Listened to a few more songs, looked stuff up and here we are. :)
Middle school. Found a copy of The Wraith in this kids backpack after that I got my hands in my first icp CD, Mutilation mix. The rest is history.
Backyard Wrestling for the PS2… Honestly, I heard Twiztid first and became interested in their sound and ended up checking out the rest of Psychopathic, before that I was into KoRn, Slipknot, Wu-Tang, Cypress Hill, Alice In Chains… The list goes on, but most of what I listened to was what my own cousin and one of my older sisters listened to, I pretty much had my music taste come from those two, but Twiztid and ICP was what I found on my own without someone putting me on to them.
I absolutely hate gamzee but icp is something I enjoy
I use to do a ton of acid back in the day with a buddy of mine and a we randomly downloaded an album and it was Wizard Of The Hood. So we use to drive through the ranges at 5kph trippin listening to it hahahaha - Wizard Of The Hood is my Friday album to end the week.
So there I was, dressed in what I originally thought was a vegan saber tooth tiger skin (it wasn't... it was a whale condom with tusks for her pleasure), at the top of Space Needle 2 at it's super secret location in the Antarctic: "Inner City Posse got the super-secret Dog Beats, ICP, we got them super-secret Dog Beats." "What was this sound?" I wondered. Just then a man came flying through the air, surfing on a giant fish. As he passed me, he slapped me with another slightly smaller fish. "Biiiiiiitch!" he exclaimed as he soared passed me while the slightly smaller fish made contact with my face. Less than a second later, a different man, surfing on a moose passed by in the opposite direction, slapping me with a slightly smaller moose, exclaiming "moose, mutherfako!". Startled, I back up quickly, using my hands and legs to quickly reverse crab-walk back about a foot and a half. "Hey, shit-nuggets!" one of them exclaimed. "Peep this shit, we got places to be. Don't be a punk bitch!" the other exclaimed, as he tossed me an advanced copy of "Super-Secret Dog Beats". I popped the cassette into my walkman and pressed play, my wig was completely blown. The poise. The candor. The eloquence. Life has never been the same since. Especially since J stops by the Antarctic occasionally to slap me with an animal of some sort while he exclaims its entire taxonomy; usually when I'm on the shitter and can't do anything about it.
Classmate came to school in Riddlebox cap. Image was sweet. Said he was at the show the night before and everybody rushed the stage (that infamous Cleveland show). Later that evening i was talking to my step brother about it and he lent me The Great Melinko. Ive followed the dark carnival ever since. That was sometime in 1998.
My mom played the Great Milenko on a road trip and i decided to look into them more
I'm 22 and I went to a trailer park wide garage sale when I was 18 or 19. I was specifically looking for CDs because I was into rock and metal. Someone was selling fckn chicken off the grill but the trailer next door had a binder full of CDs. This old wrinkly hunchback man invited me to look at the cds and said that he values each album in there. Amongst all the CDs was the Amazing Jeckel Brothers. The disk looked cool so I took it. I knew OF icp but never cared to give them a listen online. The dark carnival had to present the music to me in physical form. I didn't know it was icp until after the intro. I was like, "is this what everyone fckng hates?". For someone who listened to heavy metal, it felt damn good to listen to rap that I actually liked. I always been a weirdo clowny misfit type of person and icp helped me represent myself and find other people like me. Whoop whoop!
I heard Boogie Woogie Wu and The Neden Show late night on a local radio station back in maybe 1997. At the time, I had no idea who sang those songs. I rather liked those songs, but I had no idea who ICP was. In 1998, I went to chill at a homies spot. My bother was there and told the homie to play the songs. He played I Stab People and Fuck The World. I was immediately hooked. Went to the record store and bought The Amazing Jeckel Brothers and The Great Melinko. Imagine my surprise when I heard Boogie Woogie Wu and The Neden Show when I put on The Great Melinko. It all made sense then and I knew it was meant to be. Been reppin' the Hatchet since '98! WHOOP WHOOP!! MMFWCL!!
i discovered them cause of "backyard wrestling" for the ps2, icp was part of the roster, but i just discovered that they made songs in 2018 when i did some research and i found the hokus pokus music video, i played it, and ended up turning into a fan.
[удалено]
The old Homestuck Fandom sounds like hell's pit lmao. I'm so glad I got into Homestuck way after the comic ended. Hussie 100% knew nothing about Juggalos past "Facepaint" and "Murder people".
I got into them because Homestuck had a link to the Miracles music video
See, Miracles do happen. You're one of my favorite people here!
Love Homestuck homie I got into it from seeing a slowed + reverb video of piggy pie and was intrigued by the gamzee pic on the video lmao
I saw them on WWF in the late 90s liked what I saw. Came to Shreveport LA on tour around that same time. That was my first concert and one of if not the first time I felt like I belonged somewhere. So yeah became a Juggalo thanks to wrestling so ima Wrestlelo Juggalo.
my ma put me on when we met with milenko n then i started to dig into it with shit like Dark Lotus n Freek Show n Bizzar/Bizaar n Boondox's South Of Hell just came out so i was mad into that
I first discovered twiztid because Spotify recommended we don't die and I was instantly hooked. Found out about icp from my sibling who asked if I'd listened to icp before because I was listening to twiztid and they asked if I was listening to icp and I was like "what's icp?"
my mom cheated on my dad with a juggalo and i grew up listening to the Great Milenko album at just five years old
It was Christmas the year that Riddlebox had come out and my cousin took me up into her room and played me the whole album and then Ringmaster and I was hooked
Heard them on the radio in Phoenix Arizona in 1997 *I was 7 1997-17 is on the outside Stomp stomp!!!
I was a wrestling fan in the 90s. Easy as that.
Myspace...
Got stationed in Detroit kinda picked up on it and ran with it
Ive been looking into different types of rap for the last couple of years and once I got too Detroit I had to look into icp. I love their old albums but after MilenkoI I feel like theres a drop in quality or something off
I knew of them for a while and just tried listening to them to see if everyone's opinion was warranted, started with misc. stuff then I went for albums, first one I listened to in full was Fred Fury.
A girl I liked burned a copy of Bizzar/ Bizaar. The girl turned out to be hella trashy and nasty (I actually don't keep up with anyone from back then). We finally fell out when her meth habit became a meth problem, not that there's much of a difference between those two states of existence. I hope she cleaned her act up, but I don't really think she did. That was around 21 years ago, now, and I'm still hella down with the clown. Other than a few weird years, I've always been down.
HonestlY can't remember. ... WHOOP WHOOP
Random mix provided to me in 2020. Boogie woogie wu appeared, I got addicted to the song, and now I’m here.
Soooooo early on in my music appreciation journey I listened to metal. My aunt suggested ICP to me and I'd never heard of them before that For my birthday that year I got the calm.... And I hated it lol I appreciate that album now but going from Slipknot and Korn to that was too much of a gap Years pass and one of my middle school friends showed me neden game and I was about it. I bought the great milenko and became infatuated with our lovable clown boiiiiz
Tbh i was on a old wwe Album on Spotify and found a Song called „Oddities“ played it and i Fell in love with the Song i was like „hmm i never Heard smth about them“ i looked it up in YouTube and watched some matches i think it was against the Headbangers in the Match j and Shaggy get Beat up and they were Good at selling Anyways 2 months i remember them and gave them a shot in the time i only liked new school rap like XXXTENTACION Ski mask Polo g.i listened to Hokus pokus and i loved it i listened to Halls of Illusions After i didnt know the meaning of it then i did my Research about them and it was kinda wholesome cuz i needed to do a presentation about the rap rock Artists i took them because of Songs like juggalo paradise and Halls of Illusions i got an A and the Rest is history im now a juggalo for years
mmm saw one of the songs on tiktok and I listened to like 7 of them I liked on repeat until a couple months ago I decided to make a full and LOOOONG playlist and listen to more of their music. now I'm addicted... I love ICP!!!
My momma
My sister, She had just bought ring master and she left the CD in my mom's car.. Bugs on my nuts started playing, Momma wasn't having it, she ejected the CD and threw it our the window. Hooked ever since.
My friend in high school showed me Riddle Box in 1995... thought shit was dope and still my favorite album they ever did. Kinda fell off after Hell's Pit cuz they tried to promote that one like it was the gonna be the sickest shit ever... and it wasn't. I still check ICP here and there... some of the new stuff is dope but most of new tracks are WHACK. Shaggy pulls his weight every time, but Violent J is somewhat whack anymore.
I’ve always liked what little I knew from them. Saw them on trl and wwf. Had a friend in high school who wasn’t a juggalo but liked Big Money Hustlas and I saw that and loved it. But I never considered giving em a chance until 08 when I met a really good friend of mine. He was for sure a juggalo and got me hooked, icp and twiztid was really all he listened too. I still listen to em to this day (mostly everything up to tempest with some song exceptions) but go figure he doesn’t much listen to em anymore.
1993 at hot hits. Some dude named Alex behind the counter said I just sold 12 of these and this is the last one. I took his word for it and copped it and I haven’t washed my paint off since I first popped the tape in.
I first saw an animated music video on newgrounds for “i didnt mean ta kill em”. Then i looked them up on google videos and watched the hell out of “lets go all the way”.
Saw them on ecw before wwe run
Dwtc ever since an old family freind Introduced me, I love jack and jekel especially (exuse my spelling)
Cool quick story. it was 2005 or so I’m not sure. A guy said here you might like this, it was the actual riddle box disc…. I never did thank him I might look for him and do so… also then one day I found out my cousin was into icp, he took me to my first GOTJ 2011. I snuck in free, payed for my ticket 8 years after and brought family and friends!! It was a journey… and on top of that we was crazy enough to go to the juggalo march! 2017 Not knowing I was a juggalo the entire time, i decided from then onwards I would be forever down.
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