Hallowicked 2004

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Insane Clown Posse

State Theater in Detroit, Michigan

Sunday 31st October, 2004 by Scottie D | 0 Comments

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What up Juggalos and Juggalettes? Well, we’re on the drive back from the 2004 Hallowicked show, and now that I’ve got a working laptop, I figured it would be a good time to write up a review of the whole experience, including the show!

G Dub, Three-Ring, Justin and I started out meeting up at Justin’s house a little after 8:00 PM. We went to get some Subway for the road, and then it was on…we were all off to our first Hallowicked! There were a ton of, well, interesting sights on the way there. Most of them have to do with churches with king-sized Jesus’s outside, and another Arabian church that looked like it had some missiles ready for launch. No joking! Plus, some Arkansas people are just straight country. There as a big work truck that we were behind that had a mini trailer on the back of it….with a DOG in it. That had to have been a hella rough ride for it…but hey, it’s whatever I guess. The rest of the ride there was relatively uneventful, even though it was a little more than 18 hours. We got periodic updates from our homie D-FENS who had about the same length of drive coming all the way from Denver, Colorado.

D-FENS here – i’ll be writing in the red, of course. I won’t bore ya with my memories of the fucking long-ass drive, which are few since i was delirious from very little sleep. I will however be tossing in little tidbits here and there throughout this review, just for fun.

We rolled on into Detroit by about 3:00 PM, and stopped by a Fuddruckers on Jefferson which was right down the street from the Days Inn we were stayin at. By the way, you Detroit ninjas pay about 2 bucks more a combo at Fudds than we do in Dallas. But hey, it’s all gravy. After that, we went and checked into our hotel, and there were already a ton of ‘los and ‘lettes chillin outside. Angel and Psycho Kitten were already there, and so were some people from Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and some other states that I can’t even think of at the moment. We were a little worn out from the trip, but fuck it, we’re not in Detroit very often. So we hung out with some of the Juggalos outside, shot the shit with them, took some pictures and video, and tried to think of something we could all go and do. It was Devil’s night, the night before Halloween, and we thought it would be the shit to go and see SAW in theaters! I had already seen it 3 times from a download I have, but there’s nothing like seeing a movie in theaters…especially a psychological thriller like SAW. So we get there, and the theater is straight PACKED! That was probably one of the freshest movie experiences I’ve ever had. First off, the movie is teh fuckin shit! Second, everybody was lively as hell watching it! And I’m not talkin about obnoxious lively….I’m talkin about yelling at the screen in anticipation of what’s going to happen next, jumping about about 10 feet in the air on the more suspenseful parts, and just being an all out fresh audience. It was a lot of fun, and everyone seemed to enjoy what they saw (no pun intended).

Yeah. Saw musta been great. *coughbullshitcough*. I started the evening out in the hotel room, where my boy J and I were matching eachother with shots of soco 100 proof. Followed by beer. Followed by Jager. The girls were trying to keep up with some vodka and pucker. After stumbling out of the room, we went downstairs to the lobby, and i remember the big reason i love Detroit. You can smoke anywhere. For someone like me, who is used to everyone being a Nazi about smoking, it’s soooo nice to be able to just smoke where ever you want. Ran into some of my boy KFFK’s friends there, and we just chilled. As more ninjas showed up, we just stayed there, smokin, talkin, chillin. My night ended early though. Was tired and drunk. Never a good combo.

After the movie, we rolled back to the hotel, only to notice that there was what looked to be a gang war about to break out in the Days Inn parking lot. At this point, G Dub was driving, and there were thugged out people everywhere yelling at each other, making threats, and all that good shit…all while all the los and lettes just looked on from the balcony. There was absolultely no room to drive around in the 1-way parking lot due to everyone being in the fuckin way. So what does G Dub do? He rolls right through them until they move out of the way. lol. I was just taking everything in from the back of the Explorer, and then this pissed off dude came up to the mini window in the back, started tapping on it, and looked at us all with this blank stare on his face. We just kept staring straight ahead. Fuck yall, I ain’t about to get shot! So we parked, went up to the hotel room, and stood outside on the balcony with everyone else. One dude in the parking lot finally flipped out and said he was gonna come back and just shoot everybody. Guess that’s Detroit for you. Cops started rollin in, and everybody scattered…until the cops left. Then they all came back. It was a cycle like that until early into Sunday morning. Since I’m sitting here right now, nothing bad obviously happened, though some of you ninjas in the Days Inn are straight up retarded for antogonizing them. Oh well, I went to sleep at about 3:30 in the AM, and Justin, Three-Ring, and G Dub all passed out about an hour later…after massive alcohol consumption. But not before there were a ton of “Sabu-Pose” pics taken! Check ’em out:

We woke up at about 10:00 AM on Halloween morning and had some time to blow. Doors opened at the State theater at 5:00 PM, which is early as hell for a Psychopathic show (in D/FW anyway). The Dallas Cowboy vs. Detroit Lions game came on at 1:00 PM, so we wanted to see how that shit turned out. We watched basically the whole game, and saw Dallas stomp on Detroit. (Booyah Grandma!) After the game, we headed over to Livonia to pick up FLH’s own CARNIE so he could witness that Hallowicked flavor with some of the other FLH webmasters! Unfortunately, KFFK, SE Strangla, freEkjokA, TwiztidSlim, and 2bit couldn’t make it, but I really hope the contest winners did! With Carnie being from the Detroit area, we figured he was pretty well-versed in Detroit directions. Well, we were dead wrong. I think G Dub knew more about getting around Detroit than Carnie did. But it’s all good. We went into a National Coney Island (where they had this interesting looking piece of what we called “Chili-cheese apple pie”) to grab a bite to eat before the show, and then headed out to Hot Hits! I finally got to meet Sue, who was cool as hell to all of us. Hot Hits looks like a little hole in the wall from the outside, but it’s got everything Juggalo inside that you can think of! Old Dead Pumpkins tapes, signed HOK posters, and all of the current merch that you can find at HatchetGear! If you’re ever in Detroit, make it a point to go over and see everything they’ve got over there!

While Scottie was across town, we walked from our hotel over to the line to get in. Bought some more jager, some faygo cola, and found our spot to sit and wait. Luckily, we were in line with some really fresh ninjas. Split the drink up, got drunk, and the line started moving again. As we were making our way to the entrance, a crackhead actually came by and asked if we had a free ticket to give away. And if we didn’t have a ticket, how about some change. Ahhh….detroit. What a place.

It was about time to get over to the State theater. So we parked across the street, and then saw this line….that stretched for like a mile…about 4-5 people wide! Next to the Gathering, I’ve never seen that many Juggalos and Juggalettes in the same place at the same time! Craziness! We met up with D-FENS, Megs, Josh, Mikey, and a few other people I had never met before. So we waited…and waited…and waited. At this time, it was about 45 degrees outside, where it had been 75 in Detroit about 24 hours ago. Keep in mind that in the D/FW, we had just come from 85 degree weather all week. D-FENS and everyone else I just mentioned are from Colorado, so they were sportin shorts and shit. Call me a pussy or whatever, but it was nipply as hell out there! We got into the venue at around 6:30, and the merch booth was straight packed! Every shirt there was $30.00, and jersies were $125.00. Ouch.

While Scottie was avoiding the Merch booth, my homies and i found our way to the front. I fucking loved the Hallowicked Jsersey, and tossed down the cash for it and a t-shirt for my girl. also grabbed up the vinyl sticked for hallowicked. Hey – i’m a sucker for merch. After that we pulled out a smoke, and were told that we were in a non-smoking venue. We had to go stand outside to smoke. So we find our way out to this doorway, and outside we see this cramped little fuck area filled with smokers. After a few minutes of getting some class-a in my lungs, some guy handed me a flyer and a sticker for zug’s new show. Look up, and there is Zug Izland handing their shit to promote their new show. Sporting the hatchet. So i quickly finished my smoke and went in. Fun Fact! If you are 21 you can get into the bar next door, drink, and smoke freely. So guess where i headed. Met up with my homie and yours, Kevin Gill, as well as Kevin’s homie Nathan – who it turned out worked for psy – and is one helluva cool fuckin guy. So we just shot the shit. Went back in to see ABK’s set – which if you haven’t seen is the FUCKING SHIT. The stage set is incredible, his performance was emotional and fresh. I dug the hell out of it. And then we elft, back to the bar for guinness and smoking. Until ICP’s set started…(back to scottie)

We weren’t about to fight that line, so we went inside the theater, and just kind of scoped the place out. The State Theater is just the straight up Shit! I can’t believe that such a clean, upscale looking venue would allow ICP to come throw Faygo all over the fuckin place. But they did, and it was…well, I’ll get to that in a minute. So the lights went dark, and the stage lights turned on. Who comes out on the stage? Muthafuckin ELMO from Sesame Street! He said in some kind of squeeky ass voice “Are you ready for the Wicked Shit?” Then, he took his head off, and revealed that it was the one and only Rude Boy! He hyped the crowd, and then introduced the first band, the FILTHEE Immigrants! We missed them when they opened up the Hell’s pit tour in Dallas, but I had heard some stuff online that I dug, so I was looking forward to seeing them live! Well they got the crowd hype as all hell! I haven’t heard much of their studio shit, but they put on a hell of a show!

We knew that ABK was coming up next, so me, Three-Ring, and G-Dub went and got into the middle of the crowd to get ready for that. After Rudy came on stage briefly to introduce Anybody Killa, the music came on to start up his set! If you haven’t been on the Hell’s Pit tour yet, he’s got a classroom setup, with a chalkboard in the background, and some student desks in front of the backdrop. You hear these stabbing, slashing noises, see this bloodied up kid come fall into the desks, and then ABK came out and started working the stage! He played songs like Ghetto Neighbor, Hollowpoint, Gang Related, Stick & Move, Trees and Woods, Hated Me, Hey Yall, and then closed with To Whom it May Concern. Those aren’t all of the tracks, but fuck you, we were gettin live in the pit! Three-Ring is this big ex-college football player who weighs probably 275. And holy shit, was he bowling over ninjas in the pit! Me and G-Dub, being a lot smaller, just kept pushing him into the middle of everything. It was fuckin hilarious! I went in a few times, and all in all, that set was just the shit! I did manage to sneak in a few pictures too…so those will be coming soon!

Next, Esham was getting set to take the stage. At this point, we went up to the bar while they were putting up his banner, got some water, and then went to check out the merch situation. There was hardly a line over there, but the Hallowicked shirts were sold the fuck out. Wack. During Esham’s set, we took it easy, got rehydrated and rested up for ICP’s set. Esham was sportin a Gold Milenko jersey after he took his Eskimo parka off, and played Boom!, a few tracks from KKKill the Fetus, and a few others I wasn’t too sure of. It was mostly old school stuff though.

Mack 10 was due up next! I’m not too big into the old school shit like that, but holy fuck…G Dub was gettin jiggy as HELL to that shit! Along with a C-walk demonstration, Mack 10 and crew played Bow Down, Backyard Boogie, did a “Chicken Huntin” chant to get Juggalos ready for the Wicked shit, and some others that G Dub was singing along to, but doesn’t remember the names of the tracks. It’s whatever though…go see the tour for the breakdown!

Now it was time for the main event…the Insane Clown Posse! After Mack 10, people started packing in for the start of the ICP set. The curtains opened up, and the set looked basically the same as the Hell’s Pit set, except that they had carved pumpkings of Joker’s cards all set up all over the place! It looked fresh, and hopefully those pics come out to where you see some full shots of it. J came out on stage and started their set with “Walk Into the Darkness”. As soon as Shaggy’s verse hit, he hit the stage on cue, and schooled it! As far as I know, prior to Hallowicked, they were only painting their faces from the forehead down. For Hallowicked, they had their entire head painted, with a zig zag design going from the middle of their head on back. Combined with their bloody robes, and boar heads, they looked completely fuckin wicked! After “Walk into the Darkness”, they followed up with “Dead Body Man”, and then the faygo throwing ensued! I was working my way up closer and closer to the barricade, to where I was about 5 people back. They continued with Assassins, Crooked Preacher Killers, Suicide Hotline, Night of 44, Piggy Pie, Chicken Huntin, My Kinda Bitch, Southwest Voodoo, Stomp, Everybody Rize, Fuck the World, Who Asked You, Everyday I Die, Santa’s a Fat Bitch, How Many Times, and then abruptly ended with Halls of Illusions. Now I just wanted to get the set list out of the way, and then let you know what all happened. The only difference in this set list and the Dallas tour was that they played “My Kinda Bitch”. The show was fuckin insane! Juggalos were loving every minute of it! So now, what was the reason it ended so soon? well a few songs before Halls of Illusions, people who were crowd surfing ended up in front of the barricades with the bouncers. The X-Men security wasn’t doing shit to move them out of the way, so Juggalos started climbing over the barricade to get closer to the stagee. You know damn well that shit was about to go down. So towards the end of “How Many Times”, everybody started getting onto the stage along with J and Shaggy. They continued as long as they could into “Halls of Illusions”, but ended up leaving the stage when a few hundred Juggalos, including myself, were up there actin a fool. The music played on for several minutes while more and more ninjas got on stage. I ended up finding a way off after stumbling over the barricade, and then found my way back to my homies. That show was just out of control…just like a Hallowicked should be! It sucks that it ended at 10:00 PM, but we still had an after party to hit up!

The curtains opened for icp’s set, and we all got excited as hell. None of us were in the pit – we were standing in the back by the bar, of course. As scottie said – the set was fantastic – but from the position of someone not in the pit – heres how it went down: After a few songs, ninjas started getting up to stagedive. Which is fresh. But slowly more ninjas started stay on stage, some were acting like j and shaggs, some were just grabbin faygo and throwing it. Security was getting them off pretty steadily, until 3 or so got up at once, security grabbed one, more got on. I looked at my boy mike, and he looked at me, and we knew what was happening. Security fucked this one up HARD. within a minute, the stage was full of ninjas – breakin the set, smashing the fresh ass pumpkins, and apparently taking the mic’s from j and shaggs. Well – surprise surprise, the show shut down. Before it even got to the halfway point. Yay. Then the lights went up, and security started moving everyone out. On the way out, i spotted some Psy ninjas handing out cd’s, headed over to one. Within moments my girl and i were almost knocked down. people were moshing in the lobby in order to get cd’s. Someone smashed me into a column, others were knocking down my girl to get in front of her in line. Got my cd’s, walked out, only to be greeted by riot police. At that point, i decided to get the fuck out. seriuosly – what the fuck was going on? I’ll rant about it later on in the review.

**NOTE: Now I know that after reading what was said on InsaneClownPosse.com, some of you are gonna talk shit about me being one of the “idiots” who ruined it for the rest of the audience by getting up on stage. Well, let me tell you that if you’ve never been in the position where you’ve got a barricade in front of you, and a few thousand Juggalos pushing against you, then shut the hell up! Trust me, you’d be up on the stage too in the heat of the moment. And all in all, shit didn’t get near as fucked up as you’d think. It just sucks that the show ended about 30 minutes early.

Fuck it – i will rant here. I get Scottie’s point about not everyone on the stage wanted to be up there – i’ve been in the front in the mosh pit. either you get the fuck up, or you get crushed. But seriously – It’s one thing to get excited, it’s another to fuck up a stage set bad, ruin the show for everyone, and then mosh in the lobby. The set ended EARLY! Word is ICP had some fresh shit planned for the end of the show. What was it? who the FUCK KNOWS. Now, maybe there were a lot of first time juggalos at this – so here – let me explain to you when rushing the stage is appropriate. Sometimes, ICP will yell for you to do it – that means it’s the end of their set. Go on up. Sometimes they won’t say anything, but it’s obvious it’s their last song. Such as them emptying the faygo completely on the crowd. Go on up. But in the middle of some random song, don’t go up there, and turn around smiling and singing at the rest of us. We know you’re special for getting up there. But don’t then turn around, grab shit and break it. Were it any other group besides a Psy artist i wouldn’t care. But these guys are our family. Breaking THEIR shit just because you can is fucking stupid. Yeah – i’m an asshole. I know it. But come on – IT’s hallowicked. It’s the second biggest juggalo night of the year. Smoke some fuckin weed and relax, for fucks sake. And i’m sure they had enough cd’s for everyone at the show. If they didn’t? well – that’s what ya get for going up on stage and being in the mosh pit. Call it a trade off. And if you do mosh and knock people down in the lobby, and actually get a CD. That means someone who was just being fresh and waiting their turn didn’t get one. It means you are a shithead, and should seriously contemplate whether the rest of your life is worth living. For fucks sake – i saw a ninja in a wheel chair get pushed out of the way. Think about that. And although i’m a dick – I know i’m not the only juggalo who was disappointed in what happened. Clown E Love from Milenko500 Just read what i wrote. I sent it to him to make sure i wasn’t too much of an ass. He agreed with every word.

In Conclusion – there are two kinds of assholes. Those who ruin the show for everyone and destroy the set, and those who feel they deserve a single track CD so much they’re willing to hurt their fam for it. I thank you for returning every juggalo back to the pre-diamond era. Buy a gun, and help your mother have a 30th trimester abortion.

Okay – back to Scottie, the non-dick.

On the way out of the State Theater, there was a crowd forming to the side of the building. It ends up that this is where they were giving out the Hallowicked single: “Murda Cloak”, was being given out. Now this was a COMPLETE disaster. It was Netmaster Gordon, and about 2-3 other guys with a rubbermaid bin of singles trying to hand them out to 3,000 people. I was one of the idiots with my hand out waiting for one of them to magically float into it…but that never happened. After waiting about 20 minutes for one, shit got way out of hand, and they said that there would be no more singles handed out. Then, Gordon and the rest of the Psychopathic crew tried to make their way through the crowd. It wasn’t happening. The bin of CDs got tipped, and crew members started swinging on Juggalos that were tryin to steal that shit. Probably rightfully so. I jetted from there at that point. I ran into my Dallas homie James aka “Mexican” who managed to get his hands on an extra one, and he hooked me up. So much props to you man…you hooked it up for thousands of Juggalos who downloaded it right here from FLH!

We made our way back to the Days Inn briefly to change, and then went to the I-Rock night club for the after party. There was a brief scare when the Fire Marshall came in while we were waiting in line…because we thought they were gonna cut the line off about 15 people in front of us…which would have completely sucked ass. But after about 20-25 minutes of inspecting, we were let in…well, all except Carnie who forgot his ID. Sorry homie, I’m not missin that shit. We met up with D-FENS and the rest of the crew from Colorado, and then Kevin Gill (the BYW game guru) and his girl Barbera. I finally got a chance to catch up with Clown E Love from Milenko500.com too! There was a much smaller merch booth set up there, but shirts were only $20.00 there, and Jersies were $110.00! And they also had some more Hallowicked shirts that were sold out at the venue! So luckily I ended up getting one of those. Rudy was MCing the whole event, and we were told that we missed J on stage earlier. But Shaggy and Rudy actually did “Terrible” together, along with “Dog Beats”! Everybody was drunk as fuck! ABK came on and attempted some old Krazy Klan stuff with Lavel. And Lavel put on a hell of a short set there! He did a track called “I’m A Menace” that was fresh live, so I picked up his newest album “Nutty”…which I haven’t had a chance to listen to yet. But back to the story. Rudy called up a bunch of people from Psychopathic including Ry Ry, Matt (who does the stage props), ABK, and more who weren’t on Psychopathic like Mack 10, Kevin Gill, and a few others. The After party was pretty tame, but worth going to. I bumped into SCN ofJuggalo.com on the way out, so it was fresh to see him again. He was just heading out though, probably tired as fuck like everyone else there.

At last call, we bounced from the IRock, and went back to the hotel…where there were about 4 tow trucks towing Juggalos cars from a parking lot next to the Days Inn. Fuckin weak. We were all ready to go to bed, but Carnie called from D-FENS’ hotel, and said he still needed to be taken home. So we met up, and I got him back to Livonia. When I got back at about 4 in the morning, there were very few cars in the next lot..how fuckin much would that suck to wake up to? So I got into the hotel room, got packed up, and suggested that we go ahead and leave so we aren’t in the same shitty predicament in the morning. Everyone was cool with that, and that’s where I am now at 7 PM on a Monday night. We’re rollin’ through Arkansas as I’m finishing this up…about 5 hours outside of Dallas. Before I end this review, much love to all the Juggalos and Juggalettes we met up with over the trip! And also, thanks for the opportunity from Psychopathic for us to make it to Hallowicked! It was well worth the hellacious drive! So with that said, enjoy the pics and video, and I’m out yall!

We bounced about halfway through the afterparty – Ran into Clown E – as you can see in the pic below i was extremely happy – as well as a grip of ninjas. It was fresh. Ran into Lavel, who said he was gonna be headin to denver finally, and that his new shit is in the works. THAT is exciting as fuck. It was tight as fuck to see that he hasn’t given up, even after his daughters death. Hey man, if you ever read this, know that the hearts and minds of juggalos everywhere are with ya. You the shit. And with that, i am out.