Insane Clown Posse says that its fans did not initially approve of its Insane Clown Posse Theater television show.
“A lot of people are like, ‘You’ve sold out. Your show is on Fuse’ and all,” Shaggy 2 Dope says during an exclusive interview with HipHopDX. “It’s like, we’re comfortable doing anything in the world as long as we don’t have to change what we do. If MTV was like, ‘Alright. We want you guys to come to our awards, but we don’t want you guys to wear that. You gotta do this.’ We’d be like, ‘Fuck you. We ain’t doing that.’ If they were like, ‘Just come down and do you,’ then we’d do that all day. We don’t have to change our shit for nobody because we are comfortable with the position that we are in. So, not doing something because they want to do it their way ain’t nothing to us. If they want to invite us into their world as we are, then we’re all for it. If they want us to change anything about us, to be in their world, they can fuck off. It’s as simple as that.”
Thus, ICP did not sell out. The Michigan duo has a specific definition for the term.
“Selling out is changing your shit up,” Shaggy 2 Dope says, “like, let’s say like, fucking Flo Rida, fuckin’ Pitbull. That’s the epitome of selling out. It’s just changing your shit to this Euro techno shit because you’re going to get paid internationally and not do no gangster shit no more because there’s more money coming the other way. That’s selling out. If they had been at the height of success doing what they do when they first started out, then that’s not selling out no way. Like Waka Flocka [Flame], in my opinion he ain’t no sell out because he’s always been doing that crazy trap shit. He still does that, doing shows in Paris doing that ‘Hard In Da Paint’ shit. That ain’t no sellout in my opinion.”
Moving forward, the next season of Insane Clown Posse Theater will likely have some new wrinkles.
“Obviously you have to keep it new and fresh, you can’t just do the same thing over and over without it getting played out,” Shaggy 2 Dope says. “We talked about doing different things like maybe doing some skits. When we first started they had us critiquing art, different things. We were driving around in Amish country in a buggy just critiquing Amish people shit. For me doing the video is the hands down the funnest because there’s just too much shit out there to say about shit. Especially when there’s the corny shit that people like for some reason because it’s programmed to like it.”
Beyond its television show, ICP has also developed and sustained one of rap’s major, most successful festivals with its Gathering of the Juggalos. The fifteenth-annual edition of the Gathering is slated for July 23-27 at Legend Valley, a 120-acre, privately owned and fenced-in outdoor music venue in Thornville, Ohio. Tech N9ne, Da Mafia 6ix, Cypress Hill, Dizzy Wright, Hopsin, Yelawolf, Ces Cru and Madchild are among the acts slated to perform at the event.
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will someone inform these ignorant, out of touch clowns that so called selling out pays the bills and caters to a much wider audience not to mention a larger source of income?
coming from the nigga who stans a cop who stole another mans identity just to make a few dollars
Judges ruled that he did not steal another man’s name. And he was a PO, not a cop.
lol at some guy calling himself after rick ross making a statement like that. Bitch boy
Do all whites act like this?
only if we’re drunk and desperate….so yeah
Actually, I am Ross’ personal manager, lawyer, and business associate. My full name is Richard Morris Horowitz, but I go by the psuedonym, Rozay O’Donnell.
CO, not PO. At least get the job right when you defend him.
Two faggots wearing face paint.
All their fans are fag’s
yup that about sums it up.
“will someone inform these ignorant, out of touch clowns that so called selling out pays the bills and caters to a much wider audience not to mention a larger source of income”
Artists sacrifice their artistic integrity all the time to pay bills and reach a wider audience, why do you think these rappers do songs with Pop stars? Some of it is the labels fault and some of it is the artist fault but most of these mainstream rappers would love to drop a single with Timberlake and Cyrus.
That doesn’t negate the fact that Pitbull and Flo-rida sold out. Weather its right or wrong is a matter of opinion, but it is what is.
U aint gotta like ICP….But that statment was dead on Man…The music these rappers like pitbull and juicy j are makin these days is sad…That euro-techno dance shit is garbage
Blasta likes the blast of cum coming out my cock.
….Wow…..
lololololololololololololololol
I’m 35 yrs old still living at home and going to community college. I aint sell out like all these other guys getting houses and jobs, i’m keepin it real!
SALUTE !
You’re a bum and probably friends with bruthadee also.
I hate pitbull n florida music as much as anyone but ICP cant talk shit bout any rappers music because they seriously make the worst corny tracks I ever heard and both of them are in the running for worst rappers of all time.
that magnets song was hard as fuck!
Lil B already has that Title son…
“Lil B already has that Title son…” best comment here Dirty
Some call it being diverse and talent when you can change up your style , Gangsta in most part is just smoke and mirrors and really is played out ,you cant find none of these so call gangsta rappers in the hood , Real gangsta dont rap and tell all their bizness, consider the source here its coming from a couple of clowns
Fuckers been around since 1991….20 years in the game,and still gettin it…Must be doin sumthin right
Nope, they just have deaf and blind followers.
inbred rednecks with clown paint on.
And the Award for Captain Obvious goes to…ICP
lol pitbull and flo rida?
No fucking shit sherlock. jesus christ, they have been making shitty pop music for years, this isn’t exactly a revelation
They do hiphop as much as pop. They pay tribute to its culture.
No, they don’t do hip-hop. How do Flo Rida and Pitbull pay tribute to hip-hop culture when all they make is techno bullshit?
icp we love you here in Iran
me love u
hahaha losers, u wish u could make there money, nobody wwants u at there awards shows either dont hold ur breathe, calling it selling out or not its called getting rich, and if u can exploit peoplle to get rich off it do it, id fucking sing lullaby’s all day if it made me rich as fuck
it’s called artistic integrity being your own person not a slave and having the characteristics that inspire your people, that’s where your real power is lye’. Keep looking for jew hop when hip hop is a force of itself.
Don’t ever mention my name you fucking clown faggots
Can’t take these guys seriously… Sorry, but their opinions are invalid automatically.