The more money that gets pumped into anything, the more you’re gonna get powerful people and corporations pushing wackness. You have the hip hop heads that listen to and love real hip hop, then you have the others that don’t know about rap and listen to trash. “It’s always been like that, well, not to this level. Often now artists will post short videos to get noticed before blowing up with 15-second clips of their trending songs. feel about the new breed of hip-hop forming out of social media. So, it’s good to be talking to a British Juggalo, I didn’t even know and I’m here bigging up the ICP. rteveals, “Whenever I interview with the British press, a lot of them are into old school hip hop and you can have good conversations with them about old, old school shit, you know. I’ve seen every legendary (rap) artist in history on stage and ICP as showmen and as MC’s on stage, impress me big time.

A lot of people get mad at me because Insane Clown Posse is who you’re supposed to hate, like they are not hip hop. “On stage, they are better than a lot of dope lyricists, like, a lot of people can spit lyrics but not everybody can put on a show. They don’t bother to find out because the attitude of the casual listener is ‘oh, they are Juggalos?’ But ICP grew up on the Big Daddy Kane’s, the Boogie Down Productions and X-Clan. most recent iconic performances at The Gathering of the Juggalos a time the rapper thoroughly enjoyed, “Well, here’s the thing with Insane Clown Posse, they are big-time hip-hop fans. Everybody that tells a story in rap has Slick Rick in their genes, you know.” reflected, “On the next album, I‘d love to have LL and Slick Rick a pioneer of great storytelling. I wanted to get LL Cool J too, but you can only have so many people on an album.” Was there anybody he would like to work with in the future? “Well, I wanted to get Big Daddy Kane on the Dragon Fire song (alongside Ghostface Killa, Masta Killa, Kool G Rap and XX3eme) but it didn’t happen. So, people wanna believe in that, of course.”Īll My Heroes are Dead, features an extensive guest list of legendary and established artists including Chuck D, Immortal Technique, Vinnie Paz, and Ice-T. That’s what people wanna believe, that everything they have ever lost, they will get back. The flipside is, maybe there is this afterlife and we get to see everyone we have ever loved and lost. (laughs.) Let me get some fuckin’ rest, alright. Those people are crazy thinking God is real.’”Īfter wrestling a little more with the issue, Rugged Man says, “But at the same time, if there is nothing, the World is tiring and a final light switch (off) to let you rest don’t sound too bad. The rapper reflects on the difficulties in a world so intrinsically built on the duality of truth, concluding that scientific thought can sometimes make one doubt their faith, “It can make you think, ‘I’m no backwards, hillbilly, religious person. Like, is God a man-made brainwashing tool to control us, that goes through my head.” I feel like I’m letting God down because my faith isn’t there at times. You know, sometimes I lose faith, I feel disappointed in myself. I say give me the faith back, let me believe again. My whole life I used to, now when I say my prayers.

I’m not trying to make you feel uncomfortable, I’m just telling the stories of life, I don’t know if you go see a dramatic film where somebody passes away, is that uncomfortable? I’m not sure, but I guess to some people it is.”ĭid he believe in life after death? “I used to.

“Well, I don’t think it’s supposed to be uncomfortable I think it’s supposed to be life. We wondered if it was his intention to make his listeners feel uncomfortable and face these things head on. The rapper’s unflinching style has always made sure difficult subjects are put in the limelight. He continued, “Everybody’s going out of business, everybody is losing their money, everybody is losing their jobs, people is getting sick in the world and you know, the worlds been through err, tons of stuff like this shit, been through pandemics, been through world wars, not everybody survives but the world keeps going after, you know? I was talking about shooting a film in Belgium, but you know now, nobody’s doing shows so I’m not sure when that’s gonna be a reality. Despite being one of the most mercurial figures in hip-hop, we wondered if there were anymore films in the pipeline? “Yeah, I’ve been working on some scripts, I was planning on touring off this album for a while, you know, err, do a hundred, two hundred shows and to use that money for production.

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