The story of Majik Recordz is filled with twists, turns, and unknowns. What REALLY happened with it, all the details, is really known only to the people involved, but many things have been confirmed, so here’s the story as it is widely known:

In 2003, the relationship between Twiztid and ICP was not really going too well. Twiztid had seemingly grown apart from the label, doing all their own albums and production, their own tours, etc. Rumors began to fly that Twiztid was leaving Psychopathic.

In May of 2003, those rumors almost became confirmed when a website for Majik Recordz popped up. Honestly, the label wasn’t supposed to be revealed until July, when The Green Book was released, but somehow the word leaked and juggalos got word that Twiztid was starting their own record label.

But it wasn’t just Twiztid. The ownership of the label was split between 3 people: Madrox, Monoxide…and former Psychopathic employee Tom Dub. Dub had basically been Twiztid’s tour manager on Psychopathic. He left Psychopathic in early 2003 (either quit or fired, depending on who you ask) and decided to help Twiztid get their label off the ground. Tom Dub also worked with Twiztid recording The Green Book. Psychopathic had pretty much zero input on the album, as it was all put together and done exactly how Twiztid wanted it, with the guests and producers they wanted. Rumor is Psychopathic almost didn’t

Blaze
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release the album due to Mike E. Clark producing one of the tracks, but that, once again, is all rumor.

So anyway, in May, Majik Recordz became known and the first announced release for the label was to be the Samhein Witch Killaz album, which Twiztid had promised for Halloween of that year. They even opened a webstore, selling Majik Recordz and SWK merch. During all this time, Psychopathic pretty much had no comment on the situation and Twiztid and Tom Dub continued on along their merry way, forming Majik Recordz. They even opened up their own new webstore, TwiztidShop, which was basically competition to HatchetGear. Also, when new (and even old) Twiztid merch started popping up on TwiztidShop, NONE of the new items had the hatchetman logo on them. Even re-issued things, like hockey jerseys that originally had the hatchetman did NOT have them on the new versions. Eventually, when Psychopathic started breathing down Twiztid’s neck about selling Psychopathic merch without the logo, the hatchetman suddenly reappeared on all the merch.

Around this time, Blaze Ya Dead Homie also announced that he would be retiring and that his last performance would be at the 2003 Gathering. Whether he really intended to retire or not is still a mystery, but many think that Blaze was faking a retirement in order to get out of his Psychopathic contract and jump ship to Majik Recordz with Twiztid. But like I said, that’s just a rumor.

When The Green Book was released in July of 2003, the word ‘juggalo’ was never mentioned on the album. Twiztid and Blaze also went without face paint in the booklet, on tour, at the Gathering, etc. etc. Perhaps as a way to differentiate themselves from the rest of Psychopathic?

Twiztid and Majik Recordz
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At the 2003 Gathering of the Juggalos, the opening ceremony featured all of the Psychopathic artists coming onstage to welcome the juggalos to the event…all of the artists, that is, except for Twiztid and Blaze, who were mysteriously absent from the ceremony and never mentioned.

But Twiztid and Blaze DID show up, the next day, and were rolling all over the campgrounds alongside Tom Dub. Speaking of Tom Dub, he was sporting a brand new Majik Recordz tattoo…ON THE SIDE OF HIS HEAD! Many people took that to mean one thing: this label was for real and they were NOT bullshitting. This wasn’t going to be a little joke-label for side projects, like Joe and Joey Records. This was going to be the real deal.

Tensions at the 2003 Gathering were high…you could go to a Twiztid seminar and Madrox would say one thing. Then you could go to the ICP seminar an hour later and Violent J would totally contradict what Madrox had just said. When asked about the new label at the seminar, Twiztid replied that it was a for real record label and although they were still under contract to Psychopathic, Majik Recordz was their true new home. Then in the Psychopathic Seminar, when asked about it, Alex Abbiss replied that Majik Recordz was just a little side-label Twiztid started for fun. There were definitely some problems in the Psychopathic camp and no party wanted to get too much into detail about it.

After the Gathering, the shit pretty much hit the fan for Majik. Suddenly the site went down for “technical issues” and was promised to return soon. But weeks passed and the site stayed gone. Meanwhile, Twiztid booked their very own Halloween night concert event called Fright Fest, which many people saw as more competition with Psychopathic, going head-to-head against Hallowicked.

The site stayed gone and eventually, rumor leaked that Twiztid and Tom Dub had a falling out of sorts and that the new record label was possibly over. But things stayed pretty much secretive for awhile until Violent J started popping up online in ICP chatrooms…often drunk…and told a lot more to the story than he probably should have.

Tom Dub’s Majik Recordz tattoo
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He just went off on how things with Twiztid and them were falling apart and how Twiztid would probably be gone from Psychopathic before the year ended. According to Violent J, everything with Twiztid and them had seemed cool until ICP went on the Shangri-La Tour. When they came back from Europe, Violent J goes home, gets online and sees that while they were gone, Twiztid had pretty much jumped ship to Majik Recordz and was leaving Psychopathic. He had no clue what happened and everytime he tried to get in touch with Twiztid, Tom Dub refused to let him talk to them and wanted all the conversation to go thru him. He also revealed how pissed he was at Blaze for “retiring” only to start rapping and performing again with Twiztid only months later.

Rude Boy probably got the harshest diss in on Twiztid at the 2003 Big Ballas XMas Party in late December. Once again, Twiztid and Blaze were absent from the event. When he was onstage, Rude Boy said “I’m here! ICP’s here! Esham’s here! ABK’s here! Zug Izland’s here! But Twiztid and Blaze…they’re NOT here! I guess they got better things to do than hang out with the family!” The crowd booed the fuck out of that. Were they booing Rude Boy for what he said? Or were they booing Twiztid and Blaze for not being there? Probably a mixture of both I’d guess.

Violent J seemed pretty tore up over the issue,

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but he also knew that Twiztid and Tom Dub had also just had some issues and figured it was time to talk to Twiztid. So in January of 2004, Violent J announced in the chatrooms that he would be meeting with Twiztid in a few days to hammer out all the bullshit and try to fix the situation.

A week later, all Psychopathic websites popped up with a huge surprise. ICP’s site, Twiztid’s site, Blaze’s site, ABK’s…all of them had a big ass image which announced the return of Dark Lotus with a new album and tour.

I guess you could say ICP and Twiztid got shit straightened out.

Jamie Madrox later hit up his Batpage on Twiztid.com and laid down the law on what happend with Majik Recordz.

In short, according to Madrox, Tom Dub had spent months turning ICP and Twiztid against one another. He would tell Twiztid that ICP said this and that and then turn around and tell ICP how Twiztid had shittalked them. Without settling down to talk it out, tensions grew. When Tom Dub was later fired from Psychopathic, he continued on trying to turn Twiztid against them and into forming their own label. Thus Majik Recordz was born and the legal ownership was split evenly between Madrox, Monoxide, and Dub. Later on however, Twiztid learned of Dub’s deception towards Psychopathic and they told Dub to give ICP and Alex a written letter of apology, detailing the truth of what happened. Dub refused and so Twiztid broke off the relationship with Tom Dub and that, ladies and gentlemen, was the end of Majik Recordz.

After having their discussion and hammering shit out, a number of things happened. Suddenly, shit was back to being like the old days again. Blaze came out of retirement, Twiztid and ICP were hanging out together like it was 1998 again, they wrote, recorded, and released a Dark Lotus album in 3 months and then toured together for it. At the 2004 Gathering, things were once again like old times, no more bullshit contradictions, Twiztid and Blaze WERE at the opening ceremony, and everything was cool again. When asked at the seminars what happened with Majik Recordz, Twiztid simply replied “It’s dead and fuck Tom Dub.”

Tom Dub’s story is a bit different. According to him, he was never fired from Psychopathic, he left on his own and joined Twiztid, who were unhappy on Psychopathic. They started up Majik Recordz as a way to release albums from underground talent that Psychopathic wasn’t interested in (i.e. Q-Strange, who was almost signed to the label at one point). Dub claims he almost had a million dollar distribution deal lined up with Artemis Records which would have put Majik Recordz albums in every store in America. He also claims Blaze retired so as to jump ship to Majik and that eventually, with nothing happening, the label began to fall apart and was used only to re-release the old House of Krazees albums before Twiztid eventually asked him to leave the label and only run the webstore. Insulted, Tom Dub claims he left Majik on his own and that the ownership is tied up in court.

2004’s Dark Lotus album Black Rain
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Also, in 2004, Twiztid were made DONS of Psychopathic Records. For the past 12 years, there have always been only 5 Dons in the company: Violent J, Shaggy, Alex, Jumpsteady, and Billy Bill. Madrox and Monoxide became the 6th and 7th Dons. Being a Don in Psychopathic Records is pretty much co-ownership of the company. Twiztid now officially helps run and operate Psychopathic Records and have total power over pretty much anything.

Also, as a way to sort of “publicly fire” Tom Dub, footage of him in a wrestling match was added to the JCW Vol. 3 DVD and it was added as a “Loser Leaves Psychopathic” match, which Dub promptly lost.

Currently, Majik Recordz is and will probably always stay dead. TwiztidShop has shut down and Twiztid merch is once again available on HatchetGear. As far as is known, Tom Dub still owns his share of Majik Recordz and refuses to sell it to Twiztid and vice versa. With all 3 of them still owning their portions of it but refusing to work together, the company will go nowhere. The SWK album has yet to be released and no word on it appears to be coming anytime soon.