Take Me Away…period.

i been down since the first icp track i heard, the juggla

Their are tons of songs I personally connected with. The first one I heard that I really connected with was on my 1st psychopathic album, 1st time I heard the outro song to Jeckle Bros. But i think the first song that made me suddenly feel like “Whoa, this IS a fam” was Show me the Reazon Why on Twiztid's Mirror/Mirror.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMP3ISzg4rE

Many drunken nights with my older homies singing Homies was priceless. I had introduced them into the Juggalo world. They became intensely loyal about it. One guy did 20 years for some kind of manslaughter, the older one. The other guy was a super close homie and had committed a murder and was never charged. Good dudes, actually. Later on the line from Juggalo Family reminded me of them: Blaze – “and even though we like to murder, we ain’t heartless”. The guys went right up to my dad and told him that I was the craziest person theyd ever met. I felt a strange sense of honor and shame, this praise coming from two real killers. The older guy got ijnto meth and disappeared. The other guy had a rough breakup with his girl, i still speak with her. She still said she’s the love of her life, even after being in a new, healthy relationship. Haven’t seen him for years. 

But I guess Homies, Juggalo Family. All the anthems. 

oh damn. and Juggalo Paradise i think for sure that’s the one where everything changed

Will I make my first post in months on a five-year-old thread? Will it contain information nobody cares about? Yes. And yes.

Like a lot of homies, first heard ICP in the late 90’s. Still remember the tour bus tricked out with clown faces at my first show when the Clowns came through my college town. But was I down? No.

Got with this beautiful girl I still love even though we aren’t together. She had some Juggalo friends and I listened to a lot of ICP. But I still wasn’t really down.

One night, alone, I was shuffling through some mp3’s and played “The Dead One.” Somehow I hadn’t heard it before, or if I had, I didn’t remember. Listened to it, listened to it again. Spent the rest of the night listening to any ICP I could get my ears hooked into. And at last, I got it. 

So yeah. “The Dead One” for me.

Tylenol said
Will I make my first post in months on a five-year-old thread? Will it contain information nobody cares about? Yes. And yes.

Like a lot of homies, first heard ICP in the late 90’s. Still remember the tour bus tricked out with clown faces at my first show when the Clowns came through my college town. But was I down? No.

Got with this beautiful girl I still love even though we aren’t together. She had some Juggalo friends and I listened to a lot of ICP. But I still wasn’t really down.

One night, alone, I was shuffling through some mp3’s and played “The Dead One.” Somehow I hadn’t heard it before, or if I had, I didn’t remember. Listened to it, listened to it again. Spent the rest of the night listening to any ICP I could get my ears hooked into. And at last, I got it. 

So yeah. “The Dead One” for me.  

The Dead One lol… love that track. I’ve mentioned this before, but I was a young teen and was having a random day nap. My brother, being the mischievous weird type, put that song on repeat while I dozed. I awoke and told him of the dream it contributed to: his head on a bird that was dancing on a telephone wire. We laughed so fucking hard at that.

scruffy said
hiya, tylenol.  

  

guess id say, if it was just one single song that made me look twice at icp, it was probably how many times.  i had heard several songs before, even had chicken huntin on cd, but they were just one of the many oddball novelties ive gotten a kick out of.  

listening to how many times, i was hit from a few angles at the same time.  for one, its all boring real life shit hes talkin about, instead of the usual nonsensical whimsies.  but also, the song struck me as really deep, in spite of how un-deep the lyrics are.  and the beat is dope, and et cetera.  

i was about to stop the tape and find sumn else to do [was drinkin coffee on my porch, and it was gettin cold], but after that track, i decided to finish out the rest of milenko.    

I think “un-deep yet really deep” describes ICP quite well. Sort of like Juggalos in general. We seem simple to please with our ways, but we are all mostly complex tormented souls just trying to find some sanity shreds. 

Also, I’ve always been of the sort that believes one doesn’t need to use the biggest adjectives and poetry to be big and poetic. ICP are blunt and ethereal simultaneously. Good shit.

Tylenol said
“un-deep yet really deep” is some real shit

 

“Nothing’s Left” would be a good example of that I think. By the time J starts wailing about the wagons I’m always hype as fuck or feelin some kinda way. The lyrics aren’t super deep (although poignant) but man when it all comes together, I always imagine a whole caravan of homies making our way through whatever comes after the end.  

It’s also what they do with the lyrics that have the effect. Delivery and cadence as descriptions don’t quite cover it, though. 

Whether it’s them in “Nothing’s Left” doing the “purple!red!yellow!blue!forest green!” or “ain’t no mother that ain’t been ignored”… or Shaggy belting out “fuckin’ take me insteeaad!!” on “Crossing The Bridge”… or Violent J rapping “it’s like everyday life be a riddle” on “Everyone”… or Shaggs with “so just give me my old hell back” on “Take Me Home”… it’s always from the heart and it is real.

I’ve gone as far as to say years back that ICP, despite their unreal presentation and thematics, ICP are among the realest in the music game.