Info

Label: Psychopathic Records (PSY4011)

Format: CD, Album, Compilation, Reissue

Country: US

Released: 2003

Barcode: 7 56504 40112 5

Extra info:

COMPANIES

Copyright (c) – Twisted Harmony Pub. Ltd
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Twisted Harmony Pub. Ltd
Recorded At – The Fun House
Recorded At – Miller MIDI Productions
Recorded At – Rythmatic Studios
Recorded At – Cynder Block Studios
Edited At – Schizophrenic Recordings
Distributed By – Red Distribution

CREDITS

Edited By [Edited Together Mix-Style By] – Frank G*
Photography By [Photos By] – Bob Alford, Lori Molnar
Programmed By, Engineer [Engineered By], Mixed By – Chuck Miller* (tracks: 6, 12, 17)
Written-By, Producer [Produced By] – ICP*
Written-By, Producer [Produced By], Programmed By, Engineer [Engineered By], Mixed By – Mike E. Clark (tracks: 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30)

NOTES

The second compilation album by Southwest Detroit rap group, Insane Clown Posse
This album compiles excerpts from ICP's greatest hits... That never were hits! Most songs were hand picked by ICP themselves, a few songs were requested by their friends over the phone, and the last 2 songs were brand new tracks at the time of release

This version is a 2003 reissue, the original compilation was released in 1997

[The following text appears in the compilation's inserts]

[PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT LYRICS]

The History Of ICP... or is it?

9/10/90 - ICP enters a Detroit record store asking if they would sell the group's homemade cassette called Basement Cuts. The owner agrees. After selling 19 copies, an employee of the store, Alex Abbiss, offers to manage ICP and thus begins a life-long partnership.

9/14/90 - For bus fare home, Violent J steals returnable pop cans (street value 10 cents) from the car wash where he is employed. He is summarily dismissed.

10/1/90 - ICP engages an East Side recording studio, Midi Productions and begins professionally recording songs. The studio owner Chuck Willer bilks thousands of dollars from the unsuspecting group as they spend hours and hours just to sample a snare drum.

10/19/90 - ICP homie, Nate The Mack is arrested and sentenced to five years at the Ionia Correctional Institution for an altercation with a Southwest Detroit street gang.

12/10/90 - ICP homie, Jump Steady sends $700 dollars home from the Army to help defer studio costs. This enables the group to record less than half a song at Midi Productions ("Ghetto Zone").

2/4/91 - ICP finally releases a four song maxi-single on cassette only called Dog Beats which flops harder than a fat, wet tittie, Other than ICP and their boys, the cassette reaches approximately 800 paying customers. It does, however, spawn a cool song with fat bass called "Wizard Of The Hood."

6/12/91 - Shaggy 2 Dope is arrested in Ecorse for breaking and entering a Coney Island to steal frozen hot dogs. He is sentence to three months at Wayne County Jail and two years probation.

7/28/91 - Violent J gets pizza delivery job but gets fired after an altercation with a fat, stingy guy who refused to tip him (the job lasted 4 days).

7/29/91 - ICP is contacted by something known as The Dark Carnival. Inexplicably they head back to Midi productions to work on their first album now entitled Carnival Of Carnage. The first in a series of six albums to be called Joker's Cards.

3/6/92 - Chuck Willer yells at ICP's homey Tall Jess for "squeaking in his chair" during a mix. After nearly snapping Willer's pencil-thin neck, ICP leaves Midi Productions forever.

4/6/92 - Midi Productions closes its doors and goes out of business forever.

4/10/92 - ICP meets Mike Clark and is completely shocked by Clark's studio proficiency. Another amazing thing about Mike Clark is the speed at which his beard can grow. Clark would shave at the beginning of a session and grow a ZZ Top by its completion.

8/21/92 - ICP completes Carnival Of Carnage. It can now be mastered and released.

10/18/92 - ICP releases Carnival Of Carnage and the record is an underground hit. Carnival would spawn Detroit's anthems, "Red Neck Hoe," "Psychopathic" and "Never Had It Made."

11/11/92 - Violent J is fired from his job as a gas station attendant when his drawer comes up short for the third day in a row.

3/3/93 - Carnival Of Carnage has now sold over 15,000 copies and ICP heads back into the studio to record their follow up EP entitled Beverly Kills 50187.

7/2/93 - At a concert in Detroit Violent J and Shaggy perform a synchronized dance a la Hammer. Realizing how wack they look the two began spraying Faygo soda all over each other instead. The crowd loves it and thus begins the "Faygo Frenzy."

7/16/93 - ICP drops the Beverly Kills 50187 EP at a concert in Detroit. Beverly went on to spawn minor hits like "17 Dead" and "The Stalker"

7/25/93 - Violent J is let go from his bottling job at Meijers after spraying Lysol into the booth vent of a weaselly, spying security guard. Abbiss informs J his working days are over.

7/26/93 - Shaggy 2 Dope attempts to get his probation lifted so that ICP can promote the record out of state but a pudgy, red faced judge declines his request.

7/28/93 - The Dark Carnival surfaces and informs ICP that the time has come to unleash the second Joker's Card, tentatively titled Ringmaster. ICP immediately begins working with Mike Clark and starts pounding out stubbies.

8/11/93 - Violent J attempts to take his Suzuki Sidekick through the car wash where he once worked to make his old boss clean his rims, but the tires are to fat to fit on the wash track.

12/01/93 - ICP hands in the completed second Joker's Card to Alex Abbiss and it goes to press.

12/10/93 - Shaggy 2 Dope buys an '82 Plymouth Duster. The car lasts 3 weeks when it breaks down on the freeway near Hamtramck and is stripped over night. It was mad fuckin' funny.

1/13/94 - ICP releases Ringmaster. This record sells over 9,000 copies in its first week. Detroit becomes down with the clown. Ringmaster spawns the hits "Wagon Wagon," "Murder Go Round" "Southwest Song," and "The Loons," and becomes an ICP cult favorite.

3/4/94 - ICP launches a mini tour called the "Carnival Clown Show" (despite Shaggy's probation) and begins to spark a small Midwest interest.

3/14/94 - In Atlanta, Violent J pours Faygo soda directly into the stage monitors after the club pulled the plug during ICP's show. This incites the crowd and violence breaks out. Alex Abbiss paid the damages and charges were dropped. ICP spends a night in jail and is bailed out by Abbiss in the morning. All three, along with the road crew, have breakfast at Denny's.

4/6/94 - ICP joins Mike Clark and begins work on Ringmaster's follow up EP entitled The Terror Wheel.

4/6/94 - Mike Clark opens his own private studio in Detroit clled "The Fun House."

4/12/94 - Shaggy 2 Dope's probation is finally lifted. Shaggy claims it was because he fucked his probation officer Mrs. Wills, but nobody believes him because she's too fat and ugly even for Shaggy.

7/28/94 - ICP releases The Terror Wheel EP which would later spawn the Detroit hit "Skitsofrantic" and the underground hit "I Stuck Her With My Wang." The Terror Wheel flies out of record stores faster than any previous ICP release. A happy Alex moves into a riverside penthouse.

10/29/94 - ICP holds the first annual "Hallowicked Clown Show" in Detroit at the Majestic Theater. A new Halloween tradition is born.

3/10/95 - Alex Abbiss signs ICP to a six album record deal with New York record label Jive Records. ICP seems to care less about the business side of shit and buys arcade games with the money.

4/1/95 - The Dark Carnival emerges and gives the nod for the third Joker's Card to be constructed; working title, Riddle Box. ICP and Mike Clark quickly begin constructing the album.

8/16/95 - ICP hands in the completed Riddle Box album to be mastered and released.

9/4/95 - ICP launches the "Pie In Your Fxckin' Face Tour" and plays small houses coast to coast.

10/10/95 - ICP Releases Riddle Box. The record rides Billboard's charts for weeks. Riddle Box would spawn the hits "3 Rings," "Chicken Huntin'," "Cemetary Girl," and "I'm Coming Home." These hits make Riddle Box out-sell all other ICP albums by three fold.

10/30/95 - ICP launches another national tour with two "Hallowicked Clown Shows" in Detroit. Halloween and Devil's Night shows are sold out at the Royal Oak Music Theater. ICP later stated that after watching the venue's security beat people for no reason, ICP would never play that hall again and that the club owner can "suck these testes."

12/4/95 - ICP sets out again this time with Onyx and Das Efx on the "Howell From Beyond Tour." ICP starts the tour by being booed off stage after chanting "Detroit" at a club in New York City.

12/17/95 - On Midwest tour dates ICP finally receives a warm welcome. Despite the small riots that ICP caused in Montreal and New London, the rest of the tour went smooooooth.....

12/25/95 - ICP enjoys Christmas Day in a tour bus eating Doritoes and drinking Faygo while singing along with old 80's rock songs from a tape that Billy Bill bought at a gas station.

2/1/96 - Taking a break from touring, ICP reunites with Mike Clark to record the special theme EP entitled Tunnel Of Love.

3/14/96 - Alex Abbiss calls ICP in for a big meeting. He informs them that for months he has been secretly negotiating with Hollywood Records in L.A. Together they are going to buy ICP's contract from Jive and sign ICP to Hollywood for the rest of the Joker's Cards. After explaining his breakthrough negotiations to ICP, Abbiss notices that both Shaggy and J are asleep.

3/21/96 - ICP flies to L.A. to chase G-string freaks on Venice Beach, get tattoos, bounce through Compton and oh yeah, sign some papers. ICP buys a warehouse, a wrestling ring and more arcade games with the money. "You're a bunch of fuckin' idiots" laments Abbiss.

6/11/96 - ICP releases the Tunnel Of Love EP. Some ICP fans diss the record because there's so much love shit on it, yet chicks dig it. This spawns the hits "Super Balls" and "Cotton Candy." ICP decides to leave the "love shit" up to Jodeci and stick with their tried and true mass-killing-serial-murder style of rap.

6/18/96 - ICP is each visited separately at 2:45 a.m. by The Dark Carnival. ICP heads to The Fun House in the morning, pulling Clark's ass out of bed and the fourth Joker's Card begins to take form.

10/6/96 - Nate The Mack is finally released after five years in prison and immediately rejoins the ICP road crew in Dallas. This was the first show of their 1996 Annual Hallowicked Clown Tour.

10/7/96 - Nate The Mack enjoys his freedom with a nice young female in Wichita Kansas.

10/20/96 - ICP's Halloween tour is cut short in Toledo when Violent J attempts a "moonsault flip" from the 20 foot speaker stack. On his sixth jump his noggin met the concrete floor and the two really hit it off. J suffered some broken shoulder bones and a concussion but more importantly he cried like a lil' bitch.

10/31/96 - Detroit's third annual Hallowicked Clown Show had to be postponed resulting in a quiet night in Detroit (except for the 1,400 burning buildings and the mass wave of violence).

11/11/96 - Shaggy 2 Dope finishes Crash Bandicoot on the Sony Play Station but nobody cares.

12/5/96 - ICP sets out to finish the delayed tour they started in October. The shows are just as insane as when the tour started. The Cleveland and Kalamazoo clubs caught fi... forget it.

12/14/96 - ICP ends the tour in there hometown of Detroit and introduces the 2,000 fans to their old homie Nate The Mack. Detroit welcomes him home with a can of Faygo upside his face.

2/7/97 - ICP hands in the completed fourth Joker's Card, The Great Milenko to Alex Abbiss and Hollywood Records to be mastered and released, then heads to L.A. to shoot videoszzz.

4/1/97 - Psychopathic Records drops a "greatest hits" right quick before the new record comes out so that people got something to bump while there waiting.

Thanks to Mike E. Clark, Frank G., Nate The Mack, Bill Bill, Esham, Chucky, Jiffy Mac, 2 Dog, Charm Farm, Harm's Way, Fink, R.O.C., Cotton Mouth, Humble Gods, Suicide Machines, Terry B, Bruce Lorphil, Thank you all for your help on the original edit of the album. Thanks to Gary Arnett and Acme digital design too. Ninja.

Dedicated
To The
Butterfly

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