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6	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Insane_Clown_Posse_3485.jpg]]
7	[[caption-width-right:350: ICP[[note]]Shaggy is on the left, J is on the right[[/note]] as presenters. After this pic was taken they ran off with the award...]]
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9	[floatboxright:
10	Influences:
11	+Music/{{Esham}}, Music/IceCube, Awesome Dre, Music/GetoBoys, Music/{{Gong}}, Music/MichaelJackson, Music/{{NWA}}, Music/PearlJam
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13	[floatboxright:
14	Related Acts:
15	+Golden Goldies (Joe Bruce, Joey Utsler, Mike E. Clark)
16	+Music/DarkLotus (Violent J, Shaggy 2 Dope)
17	+Psychopathic Rydas (Joe Bruce, Joey Utsler)
18	+Soopa Villainz (Joe Bruce, Joey Utsler)
19	+Music/ZugIzland (initially formed by Joe Bruce, who dropped out because his singing style was considered to be unimpressive)]
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21	->''"What about when the world's like 'fuck us, kill us' what will you be? (Down)\
22	What about when I'm 103, what will you be? (Down)\
23	What about when the world's like 'fuck us, kill us' what will you be (Down)\
24	What about when the Carnival comes to your town?\
25	I'm a be down with the clown!"''
26	-->--'''Insane Clown Posse''', "Down With The Clown"
27
28	Insane Clown Posse are a HipHop duo and ProfessionalWrestling tag team from UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} consisting of Violent J (Joseph Bruce) and Shaggy 2 Dope (Joseph Utsler). Although heavily associated with {{Horrorcore}}, due to their CircusOfFear image and lyrical content which includes GallowsHumor takes on macabre subjects, and RapRock, for often incorporating other genres, including Rock, into a Hip Hop context, ICP themselves have often said that they consider their music to be {{Pop}}, with Violent J in particular being heavily influenced by Music/MichaelJackson.
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30	They are co-founders of the independent record label Creator/PsychopathicRecords. They are also known to cultivate a close relationship with their dedicated fans, who call themselves {{UsefulNotes/Juggalo}}s.
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32	ICP originated as a GangstaRap group called "Inner City Posse",[[note]]which they initially called a "gang", but later admitted wasn't a real gang, and their pretending to be a gang led to threats from real, serious Detroit street gangs,[[/note]] but they subsequently adopted a Music/GetoBoys-esque style instead, taking the new clown theme and name from a dream Bruce had involving a clown running around in Delray, the most depressed and blighted area of Detroit (currently slated to be largely demolished to make way for a bridge to UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}).
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34	ICP have also been the subject of a number of parodies, including a music video parody on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive.'' Their albums ''Music/TheAmazingJeckelBrothers,'' ''Music/BangPowBoom'', and ''Music/TheMightyDeathPop'' have all peaked at #4 on the ''Billboard 200.''
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36	They produced two movies, ''Film/BigMoneyHustlas'' (an exploitation parody) and ''Film/BigMoneyRustlas'' (a Western parody).
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38	ICP have also been active in the world of ProfessionalWrestling; they have wrestled for both Wrestling/{{WWE}} and Wrestling/{{WCW}} in the past, and currently run their own promotion, [[Wrestling/JuggaloChampionshipWrestling JCW (alternately, Juggalo Championship Wrestling or Juggalo Championshit Wrestling]])
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40	In 2021, Violent J announced that he was suffering from atrial fibrillation and subsequently announced ICP's farewell world tour taking place the following year. He assures that he will continue to play live when he is physically able.
41
42	! Members
43	* Violent J
44	* Shaggy 2 Dope
45	* Mike E. Clark -- Producer, often called "the third member of ICP" by J and Shaggy, who credit him as being a major part of the band's sound, although they briefly had a falling out with Clark and have worked with other producers as a result.
46	* John Kickjazz -- Before Mike E. Clark, they actually ''did'' have two different third members of the group. While recording an album, ''Carnival of Carnage,'' Shaggy's brother John Kickjazz quit the group, and ICP became a duo. He left before ''Carnival of Carnage'' was released due to him not really getting into the whole clown business (although he can still be heard in a few songs).
47	* D-Lyrical -- A rapper who only appeared on one album during the Inner City Posse days, with the only rappers in the album being just Violent J and him. He left sometime during the Inner City Posse era.
48	* Greez-E -- He left after their first EP (''Music/BeverlyKills50187'') due to things not really working out, since he only contributed to one song.
49	* Rich Murrel (better known as Legz Diamond) -- Not widely known, Murrel is the unofficial "fourth member". He does a lot of the guitar work and background vocals on their albums, and is unrecognizable in costume as part of ICP's live shows.
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51	! Albums and extended plays with pages
52
53	ICP has [[ArchivePanic too many releases to list here]], but here are the ones that have their own pages.
54	[[index]]
55	* 1992 - ''Music/CarnivalOfCarnage''
56	* 1993 - ''Music/BeverlyKills50187''
57	* 1994 - ''Music/{{Ringmaster}}''
58	* 1995 - ''Music/RiddleBox''
59	* 1996 - ''Music/TunnelOfLove''
60	* 1997 - ''Music/TheGreatMilenko''
61	* 1999 - ''Music/TheAmazingJeckelBrothers''
62	* 2000 - ''Music/BizaarBizzar''
63	* 2002 - ''Music/TheWraithShangriLa''
64	* 2004 - ''Music/HellsPit''
65	* 2007 - ''Music/TheTempest''
66	* 2009 - ''Music/BangPowBoom''
67	* 2012 - ''Music/TheMightyDeathPop''
68	* 2015 - ''Music/TheMarvelousMissingLink''
69	* 2019 - ''Music/FearlessFredFury''
70	* 2021 - ''Music/YumYumBedlam''
71	[[/index]]
72	! Movies and TV shows with pages
73
74	* ''Film/BigMoneyHustlas'' (2000)
75	* ''Film/DeathRacers'' (2008)
76	* ''Film/BigMoneyRustlas'' (2010)
77	* ''[[Series/ICPTheater Insane Clown Posse Theater]]'' (2013)
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79	----
80	!!Insane Clown Posse are the TropeNamers for:
81	* {{UsefulNotes/Juggalo}}
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86	!!"We will never die alone, Juggalos will carry on, swing our tropes if we must, each and every one of us"
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88	[[foldercontrol]]
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90	[[folder:The band members themselves/live performance]]
91	* TheArtifact: Shaggy 2 Dope got his name after his shaggy, dreadlocked hairstyle - the one he shaved off sometime around the year 2000.
92	* DreadlockRasta: The group sported dreads in the mid-90s, with Violent J's going all the way down to his waist.
93	* EvilSoundsDeep: Averted; Shaggy 2 Dope has the higher voice, but plays the more evil role.
94	* FoodFight: Countless gallons of Faygo soda are sprayed into the crowd during ICP's live shows.
95	* LongRunnerLineup: Since 1994, the group members have consisted solely of Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope. Impressively, this group has been around for over 20 years.
96	* MonsterClown: Their image is based on this, though they're more HeroicComedicSociopath Clowns.
97	* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Invoked, with "Miracles". [[note]]No, not ''in'', ''with''.[[/note]]
98	* StoutStrength: Violent J. On the occasions he wrestles, one of the moves he uses is a gorilla press slam to Samoan drop. That involves shoulder pressing another person above his head. Even though the "opponent" is cooperating, that's no easy feat.
99	* VerbalTic: If you ever decide to play an ICP drinking game, for the love of God, do ''not'' take a shot every time Shaggy says "You know what I'm sayin'?" in an interview. You'll be dead in five minutes.
100	* WhiteGangbangers: The concept behind Inner City Posse, before they changed their name to Insane Clown Posse and added fantasy themes.
101	[[/folder]]
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103	[[folder:Media and fandom]]
104	* {{Rockumentary}}: ''Shockumentary'' is this.
105	* SimilarlyNamedWorks: ICP has a double album that was released as two individual albums that are very easy to get confused because they're similarly named and have practically the same cover: ''Bizaar'' and ''Bizzar''.
106	* UpdatedRerelease: ''Bang Pow Boom: Nuclear Edition'', a three-disc set. The first disc is the original album, with the three separate Track Twos from the three original versions blended into one song; the second disc contains all three "hidden tracks" from the originals and three unreleased tracks; the third is a DVD.
107	** And there's a box set of the first "deck" of Joker's Cards, with bonus material and remastered versions of each "Card" (from Carnival of Carnage to The Wraith).
108	** There's also ''A Time Of Fury'' which has ''Fearless Fred Fury'', ''Flip The Rat'', and a third disc that holds a bunch of songs released in the ''Fearless Fred Fury'' era of the group.
109	[[/folder]]
110
111	[[folder:Lyrics/Themes/Concepts]]
112	* AntiChristmasSong: The ICP have two: "Santa Claus is a Fat Bitch" and "Red Christmas" (in the latter, one rapper is killed by Santa while attempting a home invasion and the other is [[TakingYouWithMe killed by a snowman who wants them to die together]] in separate verses).
113	* AntiLoveSong: Every one of their albums has at least one love song with a twist to it.
114	** Carnival of Carnage: [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness "Red Neck]] [[DeepSouth Hoe"]]
115	** Ringmaster: [[MisogynySong "Love Song"]]
116	** Riddle Box: [[{{FatalAttractor}} "Lil' Somethin' Somethin'"]]
117	** The Great Milenko: [[SanitySlippage "Under The Moon"]]
118	** The Amazing Jeckel Brothers: [[MurderBallad "Another]] [[ArtifactTitle Love Song"]]
119	** The Wraith: [[GoMadFromTheIsolation "In My Room"]]
120	** Bang! Pow! Boom!: [[StalkerWithACrush "Love"]]
121	** The Mighty Death Pop!: [[LoveCannotOvercome "Hate Her To Death"]]
122	** The Marvelous Missing Link: [[AwfulWeddedLife "You Should Know"]]
123	** Fearless Fred Fury: [[Music/TheZombies "Low"]]
124	*** Subverted with Yum Yum Bedlam's [[FemaleEmpowermentSong "Queens"]].
125	* ArcNumber: 17 [[note]] It's a reference to how the first Joker's Card, ''Carnival of Carnage,'' sold a mere 17 copies on its first day of release. [[/note]] and 665 [[note]] Reference to how there are and will be 3 Joker Card decks, with 6 in the first deck, 6 in the second, and 5 in the third [[/note]] in ''Fearless Fred Fury'' and ''Flip The Rat''.
126	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The CoverAlbum ''Covered, Smothered, & Chunked'', included in the "Red" version of ''The Mighty Death Pop,'' consists entirely of cover versions of famous songs such as Music/HouseOfPain's "Jump Around," AMG's "Bitch Betta Have My Money," Music/PublicEnemy's "Night of the Living Baseheads," and... Music/ChristinaAguilera's "Beautiful."
127	* AssholeVictim: The targets of the Dark Carnival are bigots, rich people who exploit others for gain, and other less-than-decent folk.
128	** Similarly, the killer in "To Catch A Predator" targets pedophiles.
129	** In "Shooting Stars," J goes to the UsefulNotes/{{Grammy Award}}s to kill Music/ChrisBrown for beating up Music/{{Rihanna}} because he believes it sends a bad message for Brown to still have a career.
130	* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Violent J himself in "Growing Again" from "The Tempest" album.
131	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: At the beginning of "Growing Again" a young Violent J wishes to be bigger. Guess what happens.
132	** Things work out pretty well for Violent J in "Blaaam!", when he gets ahold of a magic lamp.
133	* BoastfulRap: Subverted in that they boast about stuff that ''no sane person would ever brag about'', including that they frequently have sex with women that are physically unattractive, sometimes leaning on repulsively unattractive levels. They also have boastful raps involving supernatural and other unusual elements or which involve acts of violence that go beyond what is even humanly possible.
134	-->"I'll pull a big ass beehive out of a tree, drop my drawers and hump it." ("Fearless," from ''Bizaar'')
135	-->"I'll rip your face off and wipe my ass with it" ("Hokus Pokus," from ''The Great Milenko'')
136	* BreatherEpisode: "Hell's Forecast", a dark song about Violent J [[spoiler:trapped in his personal hell]] is immediately followed by "Juggalo Homies", a more lighthearted song about the company of friends.
137	** In the album immediately after, which is known as one of their darkest albums, "Bowling Balls" is preceded by "The Witch". "Bowling Balls" is a song about [[spoiler: a lunatic who collects people's heads]] and while it sounds scary, it's actually played for laughs and provides some of the only lighthearted moments from ''Hell's Pit''.
138	* BrickJoke: How's this for continuity? The scream from Music/{{Prince}}'s "Gett Off" that Music/{{Esham}} sampled in 1992 for "Dying to Be Down" resurfaced ''20 years later'' in the unlisted outtakes montage at the end of the CoverAlbum ''Smothered, Covered, & Chunked,'' which comes in the "Red" version of ''The Mighty Death Pop.''
139	* BungledSuicide: "Can't End Myself" is about Violent J trapped in his own personal hell, where he tries to but cannot kill himself. He ends up losing pretty much all of his limbs.
140	* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: All of ICP's work is "Dedicated to the Butterfly." The CD booklet for ''The Wraith: Shangri-La'' includes an explanation from Violent J. When he was around 7 years old, he and his brother [[Music/{{Jumpsteady}} Rob]] found and caught a butterfly and put it in a jar. Despite their well-intended efforts to keep it alive, they found the next morning that it had died. So, they made a vow that when they get to Heaven they will apologize to the butterfly, face to face.
141	* CanonDiscontinuity: The announced ''Chronicles of the Dark Carnival'' TV Horror AnthologySeries, which was announced for 2006, was apparently never released.
142	* ChainsawGOOD: "Night Of The Chainsaw", also many pictures of Shaggy holding one in the CD booklet for ''The Wraith: Shangri-La''.
143	* ClusterFBomb: "Fuck The World" holds a record for F-bombs per second and states the fact at the end.
144	-->'''Violent J''': "In this song, I say 'fuck' 93 times!" [[labelnote:note]]There are actually ninety-''five'' uses of the word, but Shaggy says two of them.[[/labelnote]]
145	* ContemplateOurNavels: "Miracles" is entirely about the little and big things in life that people seem to take for granted.
146	* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: They changed the meaning of "Beautiful" and also renamed it to "Indestructible".
147	** Violent J covered Music/ZugIzland's "Always" and put his own spin on it, with his own lyrics, called "Ride or Die", making it a love song instead of a friendship song.
148	* DarkerAndEdgier: The ''Music/HellsPit'' album, which was to be expected, as [[spoiler: the entire album is themed around hell, with many songs describing hell itself, or songs about brutally violent killing sprees, etc.]]
149	** The Marvelous Missing Link: Lost is one of [=ICP=]'s darkest albums to date. Many Juggalos even consider it to be darker than Hell's Pit, which is really saying something.
150	* TheDeadCanDance: "Headless Boogie," and "Zombie Slide" are dance songs that involve being dead.
151	* DeepSouth: In "Chicken Huntin'", "Your Rebel Flag", "Red Neck Hoe," "Willy Bubba," "My Axe," "Confederate Flag"
152	* DisproportionateRetribution: Some of their songs' protagonists carry out what could be considered this.
153	* DrugsAreBad: Violent J's real life sister was addicted to drugs at one point, so he, Music/{{Jumpsteady}} and Shaggy 2 Dope swore off drugs in real life. Within ICP's lyrics, there are several anti-drug stances in songs like "Halls of Illusions" and "Manic Depressive". Despite this stance, Shaggy later became a ''big time'' alcoholic.
154	** Also, "Rosemary," from ''The Calm,'' starts with J saying, "I'm on crack," and, after a whole song where he describes a woman he saw dancing at a club and how he followed her home and killed the guy she was with, ends with "I'm still outside the club and it's all in my head."
155	** "The Drunk And The Addict" from ''Yum Yum Bedlam'' is about J and 2 Dope's drug and drinking problems respectively and them being comedically direct about it.
156	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''Carnival of Carnage'', while technically the first Joker's Card, was made before any of the Dark Carnival was thought up, and as such is much closer to a standard gangsta-rap album. And that's assuming you don't count ''Dog Beats'' as an ICP album.
157	* EpicRocking: An odd case. The EP ''Beverly Kills 50187'' is only 6 tracks long, yet the album in it's full length is 40 minutes.
158	** Another EP example, the song "Amy's In The Attic" is 9 minutes long, with 6 of those minutes being the song itself and the last 3 being a phone number game titled "You're A Stupid Ass", where Violent J where slowly but surely rhyme a rhyme that sounds like a number you input in a phone. Once you input them all you call it and it would give a pre-recorded message telling you what the next Joker's Card will be. This game would subsequently reappear in "When I Get Out" from ''Tunnel Of Love'' and [[Music/{{Twiztid}} Twiztid's]] "Renditions Of Reality" making the trope extend to those songs too.
159	* TheEponymousShow: "The Shaggy Show," from ''The Amazing Jeckel Brothers.'' See the entry for [=Defictionalization=] on the Trivia page.
160	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Almost every one of their albums contains 2 or 3 introductory songs from the group to get you to feel the sound of the album. This is usually an intro, followed by a title track, than a straightforward song about nothing in particular, just the group's introduction.
161	* FakeFaithHealer: The televangelist from "Hellalujah" is a con artist of this type. He wheedles six thousand dollars from his loyal followers in order to "heal" a kid with a twisted neck, tangled legs, and a crooked spine, and when the healing doesn't actually do anything, he then tries to assuage his followers by saying that the boy's ''spirit'' has been healed.
162	* FateWorseThanDeath: Double subverted in the track "Echo Side." The first subversion occurs when the fate is shown to be accessed only through death; subverted again when [[spoiler: the soul mentioned in the song enters the eponymous location, which is suggested to be [[RunningGag 1.7 times]] more evil than Hell itself.]]
163	* FinishingMove: On ICP's first two ''[[Wrestling/JuggaloChampionshipWrestling Juggalo Championshxt Wrestling]]'' [=DVD=]s, they use a [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Dudley Death Drop/"3D"]] which, on Vol. 1, commentator "Diamond Donovan '3D' Douglas" (Violent J) calls the "Deadly Clown Drop."
164	* FracturedFairyTale: The ICP completely fracture a tale about the "Three Little Pigs" in the rap song "Piggie Pie", about [[PayEvilUntoEvil hunting down]] "piggies" ([[AntiPoliceSong crooked/evil/racist cops]] whose houses are made of wood, bricks, and gold, rather than straw, sticks and bricks) in order to make a "piggie pie".
165	* {{God}}: [[spoiler:"The Carnival is God, and may all Juggalos find him!"]]
166	* {{Gorn}}: It's not uncommon for the duo's victims to be reduced to bloody chunks. Seriously, almost every song at least makes reference to extremely violent things happening.
167	* GreedyTelevangelist: "Hellalujah" is about televangelists who use the faith of others to turn a profit, particularly televangelists and those who claim to perform HealingHands among other miracles, accusing them of being charlatans who exploit the religious belief and desperation of the sick and the needy for their own selfish gains. The song outright says that they [[AGodAmI believe themselves to be God]] and that they will end up in Hell for their callous and greedy behavior.
168	--> ''How much money do you make?''
169	--> ''How much will you let me take?''
170	--> ''I can send you tranquility,''
171	--> ''Just send your welfare checks to me!''
172	* GroinAttack: Common method of torture used by the duo.
173	* HollywoodVoodoo: In the song ''Southwest Voodoo'' followers of the religion are described hurling fireballs, rasing the dead, and turning people's heads into lima beans.
174	* ICallItVera: More like "I Call Him Chuck" in ''Night of The Chainsaw''.
175	--> "Cut 'em up, Chuck! (''Somebody!'') Cut 'em up, Chuck! (''Get bloody!'')"
176	* IDidWhatIHadToDo: From "The Blasta":
177	-->"You fucked with the blasta\
178	Till he does what he hasta"
179	* IDidntMeanToKillHim: There is a song with this title on ''Forgotten Freshness Vols. 1 and 2''.
180	* ILoveTheDead: "Cemetery Girl" and "In My Room" are examples of this. Also mentioned in "Dead Body Man."
181	* InnocentPlantChildren: The little flowers below the Yum Yum Flower act angry/sad normally, but put a grin on their faces when she reveals [[ManEatingPlant her true colors]].
182	* KavorkaMan: In "The Neden Game" where the duo appear on a dating show... As contestants, and "Boing Boing".
183	* KickMePrank: From "The Juggla":
184	-->"I'm that nerd in the back of the class\
185	Who went psycho and killed your ass\
186	I cut and stab and hack\
187	With a 'Kick-Me' sign on my back, Jack"
188	* LighterAndSofter: Many say their post-''Wraith'' albums, as well as ''The Wraith: Shangri-La'' are this compared to the group's previous works. ''The Wraith: Shangri-La'' sometimes gets a pass for this due to the lighter tone fitting in with the Heaven theme.
189	* LosingYourHead: In "Headless Boogie", Violent J jumps into a graveyard and witnesses headless bodies dancing. He gets his own head chopped off and joins in.
190	** Actually swinging axes and cutting people's heads off happens a LOT in their songs.
191	* LyricalDissonance: “The Neden Game” has whimsical game show music along with the clowns rapping about how they [[BlackComedy want to violently assault their date]].
192	* MadeOfIron: J in "I Want My Shit" wherein he gets hit by a train and shrugs it off... and that's just in the first minute of a five minute song.
193	** In fact this is a recurring theme in a lot of their music, where J or 2 Dope would survive what any normal human normally wouldn't. Why? Because they're Juggalos.
194	* ManEatingPlant: The Yum Yum Flower becomes this if the individual who meets her succumbed to the dark desires in their life.
195	* MinisculeRocking: The group's shortest song is "For The Maggots", clocking in at 1:48.
196	* MythologyGag: On "Hellalujah," the evil preacher, simulating speaking in tongues, chants "Lama Namaneumi." This was also the name that they gave Japanese [[GarbageWrestler hardcore wrestler]] Shoji Nakamaki on the ''[=StrangleMania=]'' tape, which was a bootleg of the [[GarbageWrestler [=IWA=] Japan King of the Death Match Tournament]] (featuring [[Wrestling/MickFoley Cactus Jack]] [who would later appear in ''Film/BigMoneyHustlas'' as "Cactus Sac," his name on ''[=StrangleMania=]''] and Wrestling/TerryFunk) that ICP added their own sarcastic commentary onto and released themselves, paving the way for Wrestling/JuggaloChampionshipWrestling. While ICP are known for their continuity, this one ''might'' just be a coincidence, given the two years in between the [=IWA=] Japan King of the Death Match Tournament and the release of ''The Great Milenko''.
197	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Bang! Pow! Boom! The constant all consuming living explosion.
198	* NeglectedGarden: If the individual who meets the Yum Yum Flower was strong of heart and avoided sick perversions, she will appear as a wilted flower whose petals have fallen off.
199	* NewSoundAlbum: The Dark Carnival doesn't truly enter the picture until ''Ringmaster.''
200	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Basically "Imma Kill You" is this in song form.
201	* ObsessionSong: "Hate Her to Death:"
202	-->"I want you off this planet\
203	(I fucking hate her to death)\
204	You don't want me and I just can't stand it"
205	* OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope: The opening warning on the ''Psychopathic: The Videos'' [=DVD=] ends:
206	-->"Perpetrators may be prosecuted and may face fines... Ya heard?"
207	* PaedoHunt: [[MurderBallad Literally]] in "To Catch a Predator," though the chorus admits the singer's [[ForTheEvulz not doing it for the public's good.]]
208	* PayEvilUntoEvil: A theme in many songs, such as "Halls of Illusions" and "The Amazing Maze".
209	* PokingDeadThingsWithAStick: Referenced by Shaggy during his verse in the song "When I'm Clownin'":
210	-->(When I'm clownin') I-I-I-I'm super sick,\
211	Bozo bopper, shoot you quick.\
212	Why you? Cause you's a dick,\
213	(Is he dead?) Poke 'em, use a stick.
214	* PoliticalRap: Occasionally dips into this. Features heavily on their earlier albums, like ''Carnival of Carnage,'' ''Beverly Kills 50187,'' etc.
215	* ProductPlacement: "Juggalo Juice" is pretty much a 3 minute long Faygo commercial, but with the title being what it is everyone probably got off lucky...
216	* ProfessionalWrestling: MANY references. Here are just a few:
217	-->"Off the dresser with the Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}} splash" ("Hot Sweaty Betty," on ''Forgotten Freshness Volumes 1 and 2'')
218
219	-->"What is a Juggalo?\
220	A [[Wrestling/HulkHogan Hulkamaniac]]\
221	He [[FinishingMove power bombs]] muthafuckas into [[GarbageWrestler thumbtacks]]\
222	People like him until they find out he's unstable\
223	He Wrestling/{{Sabu}}'d ya mama through a coffee table" ("What is a Juggalo," on ''The Great Milenko'')
224
225	-->"Watchin' my favorite wrestling pay-per-views\
226	On a 100 foot screen\
227	Television tube\
228	With the fast forward button\
229	I can fly past the {{Jobber}}s while eating pizza getting fat\
230	What you thinking about?" ("What You Thinkin' About?" on J's solo album ''Wizard of the Hood'')
231
232	--> "If I was Wrestling/AndreTheGiant, 'This is how I would be talking'" ("If," from ''Bizzar'')
233
234	-->"One time I was a wrestler, I wrestled the best\
235	I got kicked out though, I had a knife in my spandex\
236	I stabbed Wrestling/TonySchiavone the commentator guy\
237	before the match I went to shake his hand but I stabbed him in the eye\
238	I stabbed Wrestling/NormanSmiley in the middle of a match\
239	he was like "What are you doing?" I said fuckin relax" ("Still Stabbin,'" from ''Bizaar'')
240	** "When Vampiro Gets High" (from ''Forgotten Freshness Vol. 3)
241	** ''The Great Milenko'' is a reference to Boris Malenko, a great wrestler from the 1960's and 1970's and father of [[Wrestling/DeanMalenko Dean]] and Joe Malenko.
242	* [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Really 300 Years Old]]: Violent J according to "I Want My Shit."
243	* RearrangeTheSong: "Hey Vato," on ''Forgotten Freshness Vols. 1 and 2'', was later turned into "Wagon Wagon" on ''Ringmaster.''
244	* ReligionRantSong: Has a number of these in the discography:
245	** "Hellelujah" from ''The Great Milenko'' is an extremely scathing critique against religious leaders who use the faith of others to turn a profit, particularly televangelists and [[FakeFaithHealer those who claim]] to perform HealingHands among other miracles, accusing them of being charlatans who exploit the religious belief and desperation of the sick and the needy for their own selfish gains. The song outright says that [[AGodAmI they believe themselves to be God]] and that they will end up in Hell for their callous and greedy behavior.
246	** Their cover of Willie D's "Guess My Religion" from ''The Mighty Death Pop'' is pretty much the same kind of song as "Hellelujah," but it is more involved with the Church and those who don't practice what they preach for more than one day per week.
247	** "Where's God?", also from ''The Mighty Death Pop'', is a mix of each type, but it mostly involves ranting about God himself. Despite how they may still believe in him, they wonder about why God doesn't stop the horrible things that still plague this planet with the innocent getting punished and the evil still surviving, with a mix of why people stop believing in God when they grow up and how the holy leaders say stuff that people already know and collection plate money going to the wrong things.
248	** "How" from ''The Marvelous Missing Link (Lost)'' has them questioning how they can be expected to be good in a world full of sin and how its extremely easy to do evil even with good intentions.
249	* TheReveal: ''Thy Unveiling.''
250	** To summarize, [[spoiler: the entire Dark Carnival is an allegory of judgment day; each of the albums starting with ''Ringmaster'' referred to a specific judgment within the Carnival in reverse order, beginning with The Wraith, representing death. Shangri-La was a thinly veiled reference to Heaven, and the Carnival itself is representative of God, and almost no one pieced it together until Thy Unveiling.]]
251	* RockStarSong: "Radio Stars" is a parody of this, mocking music genres like [[PopRap Glam Rap]], PopPunk, and the BoyBand.
252	* SadClown: A few of their songs, notably those on ''Music/HellsPit,'' particularly "Manic Depressive."
253	** Also, Shaggy's facepaint is intended to represent a frown (J's is supposed to represent a smile).
254	** "Nobody's Fault" is the groups take on late 2010s emo rap.
255	* {{Satan}}: "The Witch," according to ''Hell's Pit;'' presented in a surprisingly Catholic fashion as being little more than a decent liar.
256	%% Do not edit war over the below trope. It's clearly an example. The next person to do this will be banned. And the next, and so forth.
257	* ScienceIsWrong: If an [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/09/insane-clown-posse-christians-god article with the pair]] in ''The Guardian'' newspaper is anything to go by then they certainly hold this view.
258	** But the liner notes for their album ''Bizaar'' thank scientists among many occupations in the Juggalo world. So it seems to be {{zigzagged}}.
259	* SetTheWorldOnFire: "F**k The World," from ''The Amazing Jeckel Brothers'', includes the hook, "If I only could I'd set the world on fire."
260	* ShoutOut: Other than the ones listed under ProfessionalWrestling:
261	** "For the People" includes the line "Chilling with the Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon."
262	** "Real Underground Baby" includes the lines: [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory "Who can paint their face up / Who can paint their face up / And wear a ninja suit / And wear a ninja suit"]]
263	* StalkerWithACrush: "Love." Its about a guy who was just released from prison and proceeds to chase after some random girl while he screams about his feelings for her. She understandably gets freaked out and spends the whole song trying to get away from him.
264	* StockParody: They did it on "Wizard of the Hood," with Violent J playing Dorothy Gales, original third member John Kickjazz (Shaggy's brother) playing the Scarecrow, and Shaggy playing both the Tin Man and the Lion.
265	* SuicideAsComedy: In the skit after "Piggie Pie" on ''The Great Milenko'': "DO IT! DO IT, FUCKER! BRING ME THE GUN! I'LL FUCKIN' DO IT FOR YA!" BLAM! "Hello?"
266	* TakeMeInstead: Said word for word in "Crossing Thy Bridge," so that little children don't have to go to heaven before their time.
267	* TakeThat: To just about everyone, including [[SelfDeprecation themselves.]]
268	** "Fuck the World" becomes ridiculously specific about this, at one point saying: "You know the guy that operates the drawbridge in Delray and Jefferson? FUCK HIM!"
269	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: "[[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce I'll hypnotize you like a vampire, bite your neck and set your head on fire!]]"
270	* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "Bitch, I Lied" is a whole song of this. Also used several other times.
271	* TomatoInTheMirror: ''Welcome To Thy Show'' makes it utterly clear that [[spoiler:the Dark Carnival only appears to people who are dead or about to die - without exception. ''"BITCH! BOY! YOU! DEAD!"'']]
272	* TortureCellar: Many a song makes reference to these.
273	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Faygo, a budget soft drink brand which originated in Detroit.
274	* TrueCompanions: "Juggalo Homies" is an ode to this.
275	* UnusualEuphemism: "Neden" and "Cotton Candy" (vagina).
276	* VengefulAbandonedToy: "Play With Me" is written from the perspective of one of these, and was originally written for the soundtrack of the movie ''Film/BrideOfChucky''.
277	* VigilanteMan: "To Catch a Predator" is about a guy who pretends to be a child and lures paedophiles to his house, where he kidnaps the creeps and locks them in a TortureCellar.
278	* WellIntentionedExtremist: The characters Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope portray are serial killers who set their sights on racists, the greedy, pedophiles and other {{Asshole Victim}}s. In real life, ICP themselves aren't as extreme about their hatred of the people who are murdered on their albums.
279	* WhamLine: TheReveal of "Thy Unveiling", in which Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope reveal that they are in fact devout Christians, and moreover, the entire Dark Carnival was a metaphorical repackaging of Christian ideas about good and evil.
280	-->"Truth is, we follow God! We've always been behind him!\
281	The Carnival is God, and may all juggalos find him!"
282	* WhenItRainsItPours: From "Hell's Forecast:"
283	-->"Mama told me when it rains it pours\
284	She never mentioned dead bodies, dead bodies\
285	Mama told me when it rains it pours\
286	La dee da, da da dee, la da dee, dead bodies"
287	* WifeBasherBasher: The first victim of the "Halls of Illusions" is a wife-beater:
288	-->"Back to reality and what you're about\
289	Your wife can't smile, cuz you knocked her teeth out!\
290	And she can't see straight from gettin hit\
291	Cuz you're a fat fuckin drunk piece of shit!\
292	But it's all good! Here! Come have a beer!\
293	I'll break the top off it, and shove it in your ear!\
294	And your death comes wicked, painful and slow\
295	At the hands of Milenko!"
296	* WordSaladLyrics: "Scatter Brain" off ''The Tempest:''
297	-->I'm the number one contender for a shot at the bible belt,\
298	I swam between piranhas and assaulted a patty melt.\
299	The red planet still remains in orbit,\
300	Leavin' trash piles, cleaned up by Wrestling/AJStyles, me, and J. Giles.
301	* YourHeadAsplode: Often. Almost every album has a song that involves one or more of these.
302	** From "Hokus Pokus," on ''The Great Milenko:''
303	-->"Four cards down, and two more still to drop\
304	And when they do, I get in my car and hit the road\
305	Cuz I don't wanna see your head explode" [[/folder]]
306
307	[[folder:Music Referential]]
308	* CoverAlbum: ''Covered, Smothered, & Chunked,'' which is a bonus CD in the "Red" version of ''The Mighty Death Pop!''
309	* GenreMashup: Insane Clown Posse are a [[ProgressiveRock Progressive]] HipHop act who have a cycle of [[ConceptAlbum Concept Albums]] with {{Horrorcore}} lyrics that incorporate musical elements from PopRap and RapRock. Violent J has categorized ICP's music as "Wicked Pop", insisting that ICP is {{Pop}}, rather than Hip-Hop.
310	* PublicMediumIgnorance: Despite being rappers, a lot of people seem to think that ICP are a rock or metal band for some reason. A state trooper in the documentary ''A Family Underground'', who hasn't heard ICP's music, thinks that it's "{{Psychedelic\|Rock}} {{Thrash\|Metal}}." [[/folder]]
311
312	[[folder:Music Videos]]
313	* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Played with; one video confesses, in essence, "Go ahead and steal it, it's stolen anyway!"
314	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In the music video for "Fonz Pond", Violent J wears a {{white glove\|s}} on one hand, as a tribute to Music/MichaelJackson.
315	* FakeShemp: Kreayshawn appeared in the remix of their song "When I'm Clownin'", that appeared on the ''Mike E. Clark's Extra Pop Emporium'' bonus disc from ''The Mighty Death Pop!'' When it came time to shoot the music video, Kreayshawn didn't want to do it, so a reedit of the same remix was produced for the video, replacing her verse with an introduction by Music/{{Boondox}} and a new verse by Music/DannyBrown. This version of the remix was subsequently released as a single.
316	[[/folder]]
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