Insane Clown Posse / YMMV

Anvilicious: The ICP make no attempt to, and constantly remind you of, hide the message of The Mighty Death Pop!.
Archive Panic: Okay, so there's Six Joker's Cards, right? So that means there's only six ICP albums, right? Except The Wraith is actually two albums (Shangri-La and Hell's Pit). Also, there's a whole bunch of "sideshow" releases that came out in-between the Joker's Cards. So those are all extended plays and not essential, right? Well, except they introduce a whole bunch of continuity references that illuminate your understanding of lyrics on the Joker's Cards. Oh, and two of the sideshow releases are full length albums (Bizaar and Bizzar) and you can't skip them because those two are actually a double album sold separately. And it's very easy to get one confused for the other because they're similarly named. Still with me so far? Still think it's easy to get into Insane Clown Posse? Well, what if I told you that the Six Joker's Cards are actually only the first deck and there's a whole second deck consisting of seven more albums. And like the first deck, they released a whole bunch of sideshow releases in-between the new Joker's Cards. Also, their musical style has radically shifted from album to album, ranging from the sample-driven Hip-Hop to sparse, Horror Synth-driven Hip Hop to Rap Rock to Pop Rap to Trap Music. Good luck getting into ICP now.
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Several (but not all) of their skits can be this when they don't relate to the previous or next song. "Interview" is quite an example, taking up it's own track yet being an "Interview" where the two just make noises over and over again to multiple questions.
Continuity Lock-Out: What every new ICP fan will inevitably experience, at least at first.
Covered Up: A few:
- "Assassins" was originally by Geto Boys.
- "Let's Go All The Way" was originally by Sly Fox.
- "Murder Rap" was originally by Above The Law.
Crosses the Line Twice: The suicide hotline skits from "Piggy Pie" and "Down With The Clown" depict Violent J having a one-sided argument on a suicide hotline with somebody on the phone, one-sided in that J is the only one complaining.
Cult Classic: Riddle Box, The Great Milenko, The Amazing Jeckel Brothers... really, the entire first Joker's Deck is this if not ICP themselves.
Ending Fatigue: "Bang, Pow, Boom!" drags for about 3 minutes after the lyrics have finished, simply repeating "With a bang." until the fadeout.
Ensemble Dark Horse: Usually, producer Mike E. Clark tends to get props even from the band's critics.
- John Kickjazz, the third member of ICP, who left the group before the release of their debut album.
- She's not part of the band, but Violent J's daughter Ruby is pretty well liked due to her Adorkable personality in the Snakebusters video and her playful jabs at her father.
Fandom Rivalry:
- Juggalos vs. Eminem fans, not really because of their music, but their real-life rivalry. Also, Juggalos vs. Maggots, even though Slipknot's own members are Juggalos. ICP and Slipknot are actually mutual admirers, although ICP is not fond of Slipknot's decision to call their fans "maggots".
- Fans of Limp Bizkit also don't get along with the Juggalos owing to alleged bad blood between ICP and Fred Durst.
Harsher in Hindsight: Remember Violent J's line in "Still Stabbing" about stabbing the members of Slipknot in the face? Funny, right? Not so much now that their guitarist has literally been stabbed in the head.
Hilarious in Hindsight: A recurring catchphrase at the Gathering of the Juggalos among attendees is "show me your butthole" (a rhetorical request no one is actually expected to oblige). At the 21st Gathering of the Juggalos, Steve-O actually showed his butthole to the crowd.
Memetic Mutation: "Miracles", both the music video and some of the lines from the song itself (eg. "Fuckin' magnets, how do they work?", "Magic everywhere in this bitch"). Based on some of their comments, it seems that this might be one of the only recorded successful attempts to create a Memetic Mutation by the creators of the meme themselves (or at least a Parody Retcon is at work).
- Know what I'm saying? ^Note
Narm Charm: Their announcement of cancelling their 2020 gathering due to the coronavirus pandemic: "The bottom line is simply that we REFUSE to risk even ONE Juggalo life by hosting a Gathering during these troubling times." The sincerity of it makes up for the inherent goofiness of the word "Juggalo".
Never Live It Down: Thanks to the extreme cult appeal, you'll be hard pressed to find any non-hardcore fan who knows more about them than their not knowing how magnets work.
Old Shame: Violent J emphatically denounced homophobic lyrics in the group's older songs, saying they were foolish and that it's antithetical for a Juggalo to be prejudiced against anyone in any way. He even encouraged his daughter not to defend him if her friends brought it up.
Paranoia Fuel: "The world famous Boogie Woogie Wu will come to you! Slumber parties, sleepovers, intimate nights, whatever the occasion for the midnight hour, he will gladly come and fuck that shit up!"
Retroactive Recognition: TechN9ne appeared on ICP's 2003 Hallowicked single before he was known to the mainstream. Danny Brown appeared in a remix of "When I'm Clownin'" before he was a recognized mainstream personality.
Sampled Up: A weird case. "Bowling Balls" samples the Public Enemy interlude "Security of the First World". Most Juggalos recognize the original, but not a reviewer, who believed that ICP sampled Madonna's single "Justify My Love", which samples the Public Enemy beat.
Signature Song: "Miracles", maybe. For their early material, "Chicken Huntin'" and "Halls of Illusions" would probably count. "Homies" is also surprisingly popular.
So Bad, It's Good: Very few people take the "Miracles" seriously due to the lines mentioned under Memetic Mutation, as well as certain things that are described as being miraculous (such as a Pelican nearly eating a cell phone, or the fact their offspring look similar to them). Even Violent J finds the backlash to be funny.
Vindicated by History: The group are nowhere near as hated as they used to be. Their music still tends to be a bit polarizing, but Violent J and Shaggy themselves are now seen by most to be perfectly nice and funny guys.
What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: One would assume the band was a family-friendly act based on their wacky makeup and larger-than-life personas, along with the fact that one of their few mainstream hits, "Homies", is a lively Rap Rock song about the importance of friendship. They'd be wrong. Their songs tend to be barely family-friendly, if at all, and are full of Black Comedy and profanity.

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