Creepy clown sightings have popped up all over America this Halloween season, taking over news headlines. As the recurrence of these clowns become more frequent, TIME decided to reach out to Hip Hop duo Insane Clown Posse to get their take on the growing trend.
Violent J, one-half of the pioneering Detroit rap group, blogged about the clown sightings for the publication and flipped the script; citing Big Government as being the real clowns wrecking havoc upon America. He says these are the facepaint-free clowns who are suppressing the rights of American citizens every day.
“These clowns threaten the very fabric on which our nation was supposedly founded upon—and for some fucking crazy-ass reason, they’re getting away with it,” Violent J, 44, wrote. “From keystone-cop clowns shooting unarmed citizens to racist clowns burning down Islamic centers or clowns in the NSA spying on us through our cell phones and laptops, America has turned into something far more terrifying than Insane Clown Posse’s Dark Carnival. Even a scrub like me who dropped out of school in ninth grade can see what’s going on. Today’s reality is scarier than anything you’ll ever hear on one of our albums.”
He continues to collate a list of facts on how their fans, known as Juggalos, have been specifically targeted by the FBI and have been categorized as a gang in their National Gang Threat Assesment list since 2011. They’ve since been working with the ACLU to prove to the U.S. Justice Department that labeling their fans as a gang is insane.
“Recently, there was a probation officer who was let go for being identified as a Juggalo, and her employer had no problem writing it as the reason for her severance in her termination paperwork,” J continues. “Others have lost their jobs, custody of their kids and been subject to illegal search and seizure.”
ICP further addressed the so-called “killer clowns” causing mass hysteria across the country on their Facebook after being bombarded with requests for their opinion since their persona is clown-based. They point out the same thing happened decades ago when Stephen King released his novel It in 1981.
The disturbing clown sightings first began in South Carolina and now there have been dozens of reports of more clown sightings across the nation such as New York, Florida, Virgina, Ohio Michigan and Wisconsin among others. Speaking of Michigan, two teenage females were recently arrested and face misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges for terrorizing a younger group of girls.
Rolling Stone wrote a full report on the spottings, dissecting the timeline of clownish events.
For a quick recap, watch the video below:
They both represent deteoit far better than feminem
Troll….
trolling imlpies lying. this isnt trolling
This guy gets it. I loved their diss tracks towards feminem. ICP hasnt gone pop like slim anus.
This shit was going on when i was a jit & it didnt have nothing to do with a movie…one tried to lure me into the woods but i cleared it..
I think it’s sad that a 44 year old man paint their face like a clown and drink Faygo. Did they ever figure out how magnets work though?
Its called aalter ego
Kiss still wears their makeup, Nas still dresses like he was younger, PeeWee Herman still wears that grey suit. Its called an image lol
Kiss are gay, Nas is broke and Peewee Herman likes little boys. King HOV is the only one who acts his age and doesn’t look like a fool.
Nas is broke? do yourself a favor and get familiar w shit before open your mouth sideways.
Okay, if Nas isn’t broke, then why can’t he find himself some more decent clothing to wear so he won’t dress like a teenager? Get familiar, broke ass Nas stan.
Nas is overrated. Has one classic album to his name which is obviously Illmatic, followed by It Was Written which is a solid album, followed by mediocre album after mediocre album. Nas, one of the most overrated rappers in history.
He was on Jimmy Kimmel last night
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I dont think anyone in the music game can touch ICP when it comes to making absolute trash music how it always end up that bad smh MGK must be taking lesson from them