Video: Why Not Make Your Next Vacation an Insane Clown Posse Vacation?

Who can explain Insane Clown Posse?  There are plenty of mainstream rap/rock acts out there who appeal to a certain round, white, and be-chinstrapp’d segment of listeners – Kid Rock, Nickelback – who pull off something resembling success by having occasional wide-reaching hits but few hardcore fans.  Insane Clown Posse is the opposite – the more they became a punchline, the tighter their fanbase became, to the point that they’ve actually come to be seen as a defiant, underground band simply by being too laughable for the mainstream.  That’s pretty hard to do, and those guys have kept that ball rolling by camping and amping up their image, their scene, and thus, their appeal, such as it is.

Witness the 10th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos, “the greatest four-day non-stop underground festival of all time,” to be held August 6th to 9th at Cave-in-Rock, Illinois.  ICP will play.  There will be motocross, helicopter rides, airbrush face-painters, a “love train,” a “fresh-ass comedy tent” featuring Pauly Shore, and Violent J’s Beach Boys Barbeque Blowout Bash Blast.  Zany promotional videos of the wonders in store for ICP pilgrims, after the jump.  

Have you ever needed to hear Coolio, Vanilla Ice, and the Kottonmouth Kings perform at one event?  Concert organizers in the past had feared such a line-up because their combined powers of irrelevance might created a tidal wave that could wash up all the surrounding communities.  However ICP also landed Ice Cube and Scarface for their Jugstock Clown Festival Orgy, and those guys are like, respected.

Here are the videos.  Violent J, one-half of the posse (at two members, it’s not really much of posse, if you think about it), raves, “Pure, utter magic in the air, unlike anywhere else in the planet.”  Probably true!

I’ll be a bit more objective: the second video is basically fourteen minutes of fat men in makeup hitting each other, as narrated by a monster truck rally announcer of the Sunday-SUNDAY-SUNDAY!!! variety, and scored to the music of a band probably named Twystyd Wraithcum.

Source: Gathering of the Juggalos, BoingBoing.