Scottie D and Toxic D’s Experience at the 2000 Juggalo GatheringToxic D, Amber and I started out in Arlington, TX at 6:00 in the morning waiting for our bus to get there. We headed for Dallas when it got there at 6:30 and had to switch buses again there. Now don’t think I’m gonna tell you every time I switched a damn bus because that would be mad wack…This part does actually have a point. Anyways, We were boarding the bus for Memphis and we layed our bags out to be put in the cargo spot under the bus. Well…when we finally got to Memphis about 12 hours later, Toxic D and My luggage were nowhere to be found. This definitely was a damper on our trip but we didn’t let it bother us. We had a carry-on bag full of Skrilla and tunes so it was all good. After a total of Twenty-Nine hours on a bus…we were FINALLY in Detroit. We needed a ride from the Greyhound station in Detroit to Novi where our hotel was. So we got a cab to Novi and that Sh*t cost us FIFTY BUCKS! Yeah…no lie, dude is making plenty of cash. OK…we get to the Wyndham Gardens hotel which is definitely walking distance to the Gathering and we were excited about that shit!! I had this room reserved for 3 months in advance and I was sure glad about that. Well…we get in and I give my confirmation # and the bitch at the counter was like “We’re sorry but you have to be 21 to rent a room here.” I was like “You could have told me this THREE MONTHS ago when I made reservations there.” Well…this juggalette named Rose was having the same problem that we were. So she started causing a scene…needless to say, the police showed up. We explained to them that we were about 1700 miles away from home and needed a place to sleep. They were cool as hell about it and said that they would help us find a room. Well…me and about 10 other Juggalos needed a place to crash so we headed out on our search for a room. About 3 hours later while eating at Denny’s, which by the way had a Kick ass little Waitress, we were informed that the Red Roof Inn (in Farmington Hills) had some spare rooms, so we rushed over there and Finally got our room…thanks to Amber’s mom! Yes ninjas…all this Drama is BEFORE the Gathering even started!

After a good night’s sleep we hitched a ride to the Gathering and waited there in line. Juggalos were going MAD Crazy there! Between the 3 of us, we saw ninjas Burning Eminem CDs, and I saw a guy powerbomb another ninja into a Trash Can full of Faygo Bottles! Ninjas were totally trashing the Expo Center! While the “Show Us Your Tits” chant was going on and Amber went into hiding…we met Haki and D. These would be the juggalos that we would chill with for the rest of the Gathering. Three o’clock finally came around and it was time to let people in. We were searched (damn…can’t even trust a ninja) and then let in. The first thing we saw were tents with all of the Joker’s cards on them. The tents were of Carnival of Carnage, The Ringmaster, Riddle Box, Milenko, the Jeckel Brothers, and a Mystery Tent meant, of course, for the Sixth Joker’s Card.

After going through all of these, I bought some posters and shit. Toxic D and I were checkin everything else when who else do we see but TWIZTID walkin around!! Toxic D and I went over to them… Toxic D talked to Madrox and got some kick ass pics of him, and the Monoxide Child. I got pics taken of Me with Jamie Madrox and of me with Monoxide. Twiztid was just the Atom Bomb to talk to. We were pretty much in merchandise lines the whole first day of the Gathering so after a while we asked Haki if we could go back to our hotel room to drop off our stuff before the concerts start. Well… this one Ninja that had been following Amber around for the whole day bummed a ride from us. We had to hurry because we didn’t want to miss the Rydas in concert. So after we dropped our stuff in the hotel, we were all in Haki’s ride waiting for this guy to get in when all of a sudden he burst into a seizure! We didn’t really know the guy so we were like dammit we’re gonna miss the show! (hehe…i know that’s bad but it’s the truth). Well the cops came and an ambulance hauled him off and we were off to the show. We later found out that he had taken some acid and had a seizure as a result. So we didn’t feel very sorry for him.

When we got back to the Gathering, the Rydas were already onstage…but another ninja told us that we only missed like 2 songs. But we DID miss the Kottonmouth Kings with ICP performing “Wickit Clowns”. That pissed me off but I got over it! The Rydas show was cool as hell but none of the pics turned out because i guess we weren’t close enough. Cheap-ass Disposable Cameras! After the Rydas show….which by the way was the Absolute Shit!…we were handed a Juggalo Scavenger Hunt Sheet with all kinds of crazy shit to find! So after regrouping at the telly, me, Toxic D, and the rest of our clique were off to a scavenger hunt. One thing was to take a pic of a juggalo in one of those little photo booth things. Well…we painted up Toxic D but never found a booth. So we went on to the next thing which was a picture of a Juggalo buying nasty medicine and crap like lice remover, wart medicine, and jock itch cream. We got that task done…so our next one was to go to Canada! We got to the border patrol on Canada’s side (over the bridge) and OF COURSE we get searched. Haki claims it was because he wasn’t white…I think that the fact that Toxic D was in Clown makeup was a tad bit suspicious.  Anyways, after being searched, we went inside to customs where this real asshole asked us a bunch of questions. He asked how much money we had on us. We had like $700 bucks between 5 people and he was like “well how do you expect to support yourselves with almost no money?”. Then we were asked why Toxic D was in clown makeup and we told him we just came from a concert…well get ready for this…this guy called Toxic D a “disgrace to the country”!! Can you believe that shit??? Needless to say we didn’t get into Canada that night. Stupid fuckin Canadians! Anyways, it was already getting late and we didn’t have a lot done…so we decided to just quit on the Scavenger hunt. The biggest day of the Gathering was yet to come and we needed to get some shut-eye!

We arrived at the Gathering a little late because we overslept and the line was just fuckin AWFUL! So we went to Denny’s and an hour later there was absolutely NO LINE!  We thought that was pretty cool. This day, the Gathering was the Shit! I mean we caught a little JCW Action, and we tried to get Twiztid’s autographs. While Toxic D and I were in line, we played with the old stage props. We also got to peruse some killer artwork while we were in line. Definitely some talented Juggalos out there. Well after 2 hours of waiting, we were finally in the front of the line…but juggahoes kept cutting in line and knocking down the barriers…so we never even got their autographs. It’s all good though because we got some fresh ass pics of them.

After a while we went to the stage outside to check out some of the Open Mic. Haki said that he was going to perform one of his songs on stage…well he DID and he was The SHIT! He went to talk to Double A and I hope things go well with his CD. Anyways, we stayed outside until the concerts were just about to start. Blaze was first up…but Everybody’s favorite ambiguous personality (and I mean that in a good way!) Moon Glorious introduced him! HE was the Shit! BLAZE tore all of us Juggalos up! His set was just off the hook! It was also cool that our crew got to experience Blaze’s first concert! After that, Twiztid came out looking fresh as hell! They did a lot of badass songs and also did a REALLY cool new song! What else can I say, Madrox and the Monoxide Child blew the roof off of the Gathering!

Anyone who wasn’t there missed a helluva show! Next it was time for the Wicked Clowns! They no doubt were the pimp shit! I got some scrapes and bruises from their set because the juggalos were going wild! I only got a few good pics of them but you can check them out. Shaggy and Violent J just dropped a bomb on Novi! They even played the EMINEM DISS SONG! Also they played a new song off of the Bizaar/Bizarre album called “Tilt-A-Whirl”. This song was so phat…I can’t wait for Halloween! Needless to say I was totally exhausted after the concert.

We came back to the hotel with Haki and D and our clothes were soaked with Faygo. Well the trip back to Dallas was a LOT better than the trip over there. We met some cool ninjas including this one ninja who went by the name “Casket Face”. He had some kickass beats and could flow like none other! I’ll bring you more on him on my site when he gets back to me. But other than that, that’s it! Oh..in case you are concerned…I DID get my bag back… Toxic D’s ended up being returned about 2 weeks later!