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The Formitive Years...(continued)
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Just dont 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.
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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.
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