Vice has shown a lot of love to the Insane Clown Posse over the past couple of days.  Today, we get an extensive interview with the one and only Shaggy 2 Dope!

In this interview,  they talk a lot about wrestling and how their JCW promotion rivals the mainstream promotions like TNA and WWE.  They also mix it up about hip hop, their current album The Marvelous Missing Link (Lost), spirituality, the FBI gang list, and lots more.

One of my favorite Q&As from this interview talks about the religious aspect of ICP.  I think Shaggy sums it up pretty clearly here:

Moving to the band itself, I’m interested in the mythological aspect of the band and its impact on you, and how religion or spirituality intersected with you growing up. I know you’re half Cherokee, and I’m half Iroquois and growing up my father never really talked about god, but only “the great spirit” so I’m curious what your upbringing was like in that sense.

When I was really, really little—like really fucking little—I’d go to church with my mom. I don’t remember what age we stopped going. Growing up it was always there, but no one would ever bring it up. It’s more than a “religion,” the whole notion of us being a Christian band is just so funny and ridiculous to me. And I think it super stems from a track we did on The Wraith: Shangri-La. It goes into the whole “we believe in god” thing but it’s one track. It’s like we’re so karma-based, and there’s something somewhere, that’s undeniable. There’s gotta be, and that’s pretty much what we’re saying. It could be Jesus and God, Allah, Buddah, whatever. Whatever your belief system is is your belief system and you’re not wrong. But we’re not making whole records hoping people cock their heads back with their eyes shut and wave their arms in the air. [Laughs] It’s not what we’re about. We’re about “let’s go fuck this bitch, let’s cut this dude’s head off.” Which isn’t very Christian unless you’re on that Old Testament shit. It’s basically like we’re preaching “take a look at yourself, who are you as a person, and what will you leave behind when you die?” It’s up to you. We don’t say “do this, do that.” Our music is for entertainment, not shoving messages. But there’s shit sprinkled in there if you want to pick up on it, it’s cool as fuck and that’s why we put it in there. If you want to connect with that, that’s great.

To read the full interview, and you definitely fucking should, click the link below:

The Wonderful World of ICP and Shaggy 2 Dope @ Noisey.vice.com

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