Detroit, MI · horrorcore · rap-rock

Insane Clown Posse

3 upcoming festivals

The Faygo flies at sundown — whoop whoop, and genuinely one of music's strangest, most loyal communities gathered in one place.

Insane Clown Posse are the Detroit duo of Violent J (Joseph Bruce) and Shaggy 2 Dope (Joseph Utsler), who began working together in the late 1980s and settled on the clown-painted horrorcore act in the early 1990s. Their records combine cartoonish gore, wrestling-style bravado and blunt humour with production that has swung between rap, rock and carnival organ.

Much of their catalogue is organised around the Dark Carnival, a loose mythology carried across the Joker's Card albums, and they built it largely outside the industry through their own label, Psychopathic Records. Their audience, the Juggalos, is one of the more distinctive fanbases in American music, and the group's live shows are known for the spraying of Faygo soda over the crowd.

horrorcorerap-rock