After 10 years in the making Insane Clown Posse’s Big Money Rustlas is finally here! Many juggalos, much like myself never actually thought this movie would see the light of day when it was teased to us in late 2000, but the clowns finally delivered. Sadly all this wait was mainly for nothing, as Big Money Rustlas is mostly a disappointment.

Don’t get me wrong, it has some positives as ICP knows how and does caters to their fan base within the film.  There are lots of inside jokes, cameos, references, etc, etc that the normal viewer wouldn’t get or really care about, but any self respecting ninja will find pretty satisfying. It also has far better production value than there first foray into film, 2000′s Big Money Hustlas. But overall, Big Money Rustlas is basically the same movie as Hustlas with the Wild, Wild West replacing a backdrop of New York City.

The cast is hardly the A list crowd, but features all of the Psychopathic camp along with the likes of Jason Mewes, Ron Jeremy, Tom Sizemore, Brigitte Nielsen, Vanilla Ice, Todd Bridges, Dustin Diamond and a slew of wrestling legends in what’s mostly a slapstick comedy riddled with dick and fart jokes.

Big Baby Chips (Violent J) runs the town of Mud Bug with his henchmen Dusty Poot (Monoxide) and Raw Stank (Jamie Madrox) via a gambling ring. A new sheriff comes to town by the name of Sugar Wolf (Shaggy 2 Dope) to try and clean up the town in the name of his dead father. As I said, it’s pretty much the same exact plot as BMH only revamped to a different time and place. The movie definitely has a few funny moments, but lacks a lot of the originality that the first outing had. If you are a fan of ICP and can keep up with all the Easter eggs littered in this for the Juggalo faithful then give it a whirl because you’ll probably get a kick or two out of it. But I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who merely gets a kick out of “Miracles” video or is intrigued by the meme that ICP has become. I doubt you’ll be able to get through it.

The movie has been out for about a week and ICP is already talking about their next movie project. Twiztid always steals the show in these movies, so lets hope whatever ICP decides to do next either prominently features or is a vehicle for Jamie Madrox and Monoxide.

As you go through this post and look at the artists and their backgrounds you’ll notice that one of things does not belong and that’s Justin Bieber. Yet he’s going to be all over this post! So bear with me as I’m sure I’m about to get pelted with a water bottle…

Those ever-discerning people over at The Fader posted first this video (above) by Nike7Up last week who cuts and chops the vocals of “One Time” up with some heavy effects. In the end while it’s improvement over the original it still tends to still be a bit poppy still for my sensibilities.

J. Biebz – U Smile 800% Slower by Shamantis

But then Today The Fader followed it up with another post! This time Florida based artist, Shamantis, who has apparently taken the Beibz’s cut and dragged it down 800% and made it 1000000(not enough zeros) times better.

Is there some hidden untapped and subversive magic behind these Bieber tracks that the Bieb needs the help of others in locating? Could be because as drastically different as those two takes are of the Bieber, I was then reminded by Jam City (from the Night Slugs camp) via his Twitter of this little gem…

Now, if you’ve made it this far, congratulations!! You are about to be rewarded with the most striking take on this nauseating music thus far… Because you see Holy Ghost! just posted the following video on their blog back in May and, in their own words…

One of our favorite singers and collaborators (Caroline Polachek/Chairlift) sent us a video the other day. She and her man Jorge Elbrecht (Violens) made a new song that fits perfects with this Biebs video. Its pretty special…

Original Video – More videos at TinyPic

So, there you have it…the music may be horrid, but at least it’s forcing people to make something palatable out of it.

It’s been well over a year since I did one of these posts. It’s really not that easy to  just identify albums that are kinda band yet oh so good and enjoyable at just that… hell my last few AAA posts were mostly good albums that kinds just didn’t have good public and critical reactions upon their release just so i had something to post and keep the series going.

This all changed when I had this strong urge to hear Stabbing Westward’s 1996 radio hit “What Do I Have to Do?” Now i could have gone and just YouTubed the clip and gotten my fix but i decided to go balls deep and get the whole album and I’m glad that I did.

Outside of “What Do I Have to Do?” I wasn’t really all that familiar with any other Stabbing Westward songs… growing up up, I viewed them, along with Gravity Kills were just kind of watered down NIN meets Deftones meets Tool whose sole purpose of being was churning out unoffensive and uninspired radio singles reminiscent of other bands. By the time Wither Blister Burn & Peel was released I was 18, in College and just wasn’t as susceptible to that shit as I once was. In a way I was kind of right in my initial assessment, and yet totally off base after hearing this album for the first time some 13 years after it’s release.

So I threw on Wither Blister Burn & Peel for my first real listen of it ever a few weeks ago. I gotta be honest it I was just planning to gnash my teeth and bear through the album until it hit “What Do I Have to Do?”, the album’s third track… but whoa! Opener “I Don’t Believe” and “Shame” (track 2) were some seriously catchy angst-ridden gems! It’s a shame that “Emo” didn’t really take off as a term in pop culture until two years after the release of Wither Blister Burn & Peel because this album is basically “Emodustrial.” I’ve been catching up on over a decade’s worth of guilty pleasure listens on this over the past few weeks. Where was this when I was 16 and heartbroken and angry!?

I think the truly mind boggling thing about Wither Blister Burn & Peel is that it’s pretty solid all the way through. Cheesy as it might be, these guys knew how to pen a catchy song, nay a whole album for a mostly teen fanbase. Usually nowadays when I’m feeling nostalgic and decide to dive back into an album from a 90s with whom I’m only familiar with one or two tracks I tend to discover that’s all worth hearing. hell usually the rest of the albums are downright unbearable to sit through, not with Wither Blister Burn & Peel though. Sure it’s mostly front-loaded with all the super catchy tracks and loses steam as it hits the homestretch, but the rest of the album is definitely higher grade than mere alterna-filler with some melodies and riffs that are catchy in their own right.

Wither Blister Burn & Peel works as a whole cohesive unit even outside of the hits… it ebbs and flows from anger, to atmosphere to sing-a-long fist pumping rage like some kind of  The Downward Spiral lite for anyone too intimidated to get really into NIN. Filter couldn’t even do an album this solid and that dude was in NIN, so I gotta give Stabbing Westward the credit they deserve! As far as pandering blatantly for 90s commercial appeal goes, this was an utter success.

Behold my new guilty retro-pleasure!

I bet YuDu!  Full disclosure, YuDu used some of our Fall 2010 graphics for this infomercial in exchange for hooking us up with our own sweet YuDu set-up. I think it’s our best season ever. Really feeling the butterfly design Mike Jones did the most.

I know you ninjas are getting excited for the Gathering of the Juggalos 2010, so I’m here to drop an atom bomb of news on your bitch ass! As you’ve seen in the video, JCW heavyweight champion Corporal Robinson and 2 Tuff Tony have announced the full wrestling lineup for this years gathering. This years action is looking to be some of the best yet!

They have brought in not only some of the best indy talent, but also a mass amount of old school legends! If you’ve never been to a gathering before and witnessed the insanity that is JCW live, well you’re missing out. It doesn’t go down until Midnight and 4am respectfully and everyone is wasted by then, juggalos and wrestlers alike. Who wouldn’t want to watch washed up old time wrestlers wasted and fucking each other up? You never know WHO or WHAT is going to go down at these things, so if you’re attending please try and get some video of the madness.

Next on the list of gathering updates is the new event or shall I say party hosted by the Duke of the Wicked, Violent J himself! It’s called “Michael Jackson Moonwalk BBQ Blowout Pajama Jam” . In previous years Violent J has thrown Beach Boy BBQ style parties and they are always good times, so I’d suggest checking this out if you happen to be at this years festivities. Here is what Mr. VJ himself had to say about the MJMBBPJ:

Violent J’s “Michael Jackson Moonwalk BBQ Blowout Pajama Jam” Sunday Afternoon 5PM @ The Jumpoff

Come dressed in your skibbies and pajamas! Why you ask? For no damn reason at all! Because that’s how we do at Violent J’s “Michael Jackson Moonwalk BBQ Blowout Pajama Jam“. Ninjas who’ve attended the Gathering within’ the last 3 years will always remember my Beach Boys BBQ Blowout Bash Blast’s. Who could ever forget the hundreds of cheeseburgers and hot dogs flying off the stage and into the mouths of the dancing, singing and laughing Juggalos? The Faygo tubs were packed with never ending amounts of free, Iced down, liquid gold. What about the music, the underground celebrities in the house, and the nakedness? Well it’s all going down again, only this time with a new twist on the tunes!

This time it’s all about Michael Jackson! That’s right bitch, the fuckin’ King of Pop will be blastin’ hard outta the sound system the whole time. Plus, I will be hosting a special live “Jam Off” between two of the Nation’s best Michael Jackson impersonators! These two doppelgangers will have to make due within the Juggalo setting and bring there best to this big ninja BBQ. The winner will go on tour with us in October! Seriously? I don’t fuckin’ know! If you think it would be dope, we will! Also, there will be giant, adult sized moonwalk bounces on location for you to show off your ninja flipping skills!

It all pops off Sunday afternoon. 5pm at the Jumpoff at the Gathering. B.Y.O.B., Bitch! Special guest BBQ cooks on stage helping throw out the snacks; Corporal Robinson, 2 Tuff Tony & Amp; the super chef Shaggy 2 Dope! Come on through, snatch a cheeseburger out the sky and down it right there in the middle of pandemonium! That’s the best way to eat! We will do the damn thang at Violent J’s “Michael Jackson Moonwalk BBQ Blowout Pajama Jam”!

-Violent J

Well that’s all the faygo soaked news I have for you this weekend ninjas. Start packing those nap sacks and sticking those thumbs in the air to hitch a ride to the greatest show on earth. I for one will NOT be in attendance for the first GOTJ since it’s inception back in 2000, so somebody else is going to have to take the reigns and report back to the bloglin about the magic in the air. I’m going to leave you with a clip of Violent J’s Beach Boy Themed BBQ from last year, so until next time , woopx2…

Your friendly neighborhood Hateball plans his year around Comicon. There. I said it. Come January, I start telling my clients to expect outages in July. Feb and March is the hotel/plane ticket truffle shuffle. April/May is spent alternatingly celebrating the birth of the Easter Bunny and hounding Brian Ewing about booth details, release schedules, and other general ducks-in-a-row-edness. May June is spent getting my OWN shit together on whatever giveaway I’m doing for my other job, and then, well, July is spent waiting. Stalled. On the side of the road. Waiting for those fateful 5 days in the SD heat, rubbing nuts to butts with all the other mouth breathers.

But! Don’t be fooled. No matter what your girl or my girl or anybody else’s real-life girlfriend tells you (as, I have never heard a girl that I actually know ever admit that some other girl that nobody knows—in costume or otherwise—is actually pretty, looks good, is worth looking at, etc. But still) there are some awesome lady sights down Comicon way. I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed or not (I’m sure Caffeine Powered has), but: most characters a girl would want to dress up as have some pretty scant fashions. Some hotness. Some tightness. And of course, there’s always the scathing radness of her dudefriend and/or walking buddy.

So, as was the case last year, this is my homage to Comicon ladies. Some gems I’ve snapped in prior years, if only to encourage you—O loyal order of the Bloglin—to come down, post up, and don’t be too weird about it.

Incidentally, if you read this AND you go there, I’d love to shake hands with yas. I’ll be at booth #433 hanging with the likes of the one and only Mr. Brian Ewing, with frequent yet unpredictable appearances made by the Buff Monster. If you’re nice, and you tell me how utterly suave and sophisticated you find my writing—and by proxy, ME—to be, I might give you some swag. Or at least a hi-five. Or, incidentally, if you’re really pretty, I might ask you to stand next to one of my friends so I can take a picture of you that I will then write about next year. META-that.

Buncha photos after the jump.

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So, Mrs. Hateball and I just announced to our close friends and family that we will—indeed—be having a baby. (I was privy to this information back when we as a blog watched metal dudes burning churches made of popsicle sticks with their daughters and laughed, btw. It was…poignant.)

Within mere minutes, I received a link to the video above from one of those close friends.

I can’t wait. Also: if we don’t have chance to talk before then, have a happy 4th. You’ve earned it.

[adult swim] must be a company run by dudes a lot like the one who run МишкA, with a juggalo fascination and full of people down with the clown! This is the 3rd time they have showed some clown love on the air in a short span! The first time was on Superjail!, The second time was Aqua Teen Hunger Force back in April, and now the newest episode of Squidbillies boasts clown paint and copious use of the word “ninja.”

This episode looks to be airing this Sunday, July 4th @midnight and is appropriately titled “Clowny Freaks”. So here’s is your heads up and make sure you DVR it, because if you’re like me you’ll be getting your dance on over at our 4th of July bash! Until next time, may the carnival be with you…

ICP has always had long ties to professional wrestling. They grew up watching it from a very young age and even did backyard wrestling shows when they were in grade school. Fast forward to when they started making a little money, they promptly went out and bought a pro ring and set it up in the Psychopathic Records warehouse. This ring provided free wrestling shows for fan club members, friends, and family for years.

During the mid-nineties, around the time ICP released their album, The Riddlebox, they also released Stranglemania!. It was a highly popular video of Japanese deathmatches that they dubbed over with their own voices and commentary, hilarious commentary I might add.

In 1997 ICP scored a spot on the now defunct ECW’s 2nd Pay-Per-View event, Hardcore Heaven ’97. Shortly after they then moved on to working in the WWF(E) with the group the Oddities, for whom and even wrote the music for their entrance! They also worked in WCW, XPW, and countless other major and independent wrestling circuits over the years and continue to do so.

Well in 1999 ICP formed their own wrestling company, JCW, Juggalo Championshit Wrestling (yes, that’s not a typo). They ran shows, did small tours, and it became a staple event at the Gathering of the Juggalos festival. Now that you have a brief history of ICP’s wrestling history, I’m bringing you the RETURN of Slam! TV!

Slam! TV is JCW’s internet-based wrestling show aimed at keeping jJuggalos up to date on the happenings of the JCW. They’d air news along with matches and even vignettes on the JCW wrestlers. They upped these shows straight to Youtube and would also collect them for DVD release. Now that JCW is back in action on ICP’s latest tour, the show is back up and running. The wrestling in JCW is never really very good, so the commentary by J and Shaggy is the only redeeming factor, sadly their commentary is also absent on these new episodes. I say watch the old ones and get a copy of Stranglemania (the video below is a good sample) to really get a feel for it.

So crank the ac, make a faygo slushy, and enjoy your Memorial Day weekend…. Wicked clown style!

The infamous The Shaggy Show which are all filmed while the Insane Clown Posse are on tour is finally back! The show originally premiered on the internet in late 1999 and kept going all throughout the Wicked Clowns From Outer Space Tour. It gave fans an inside peek at the tour from back stage along with some, comedy sketches. All and all the show seemed very much a way to keep ICP entertained on the road along with their fans. Shaggy would always perform a good physical stunt or two on the show while Violent J flexed his comedic acting chops by developing a few oddball characters. Fan favorite characters like Florida Joe, your typical Floridian who loves the beach and his beer coozie (Greg’s favorite character?) and Moon Glorious, a shy quiet type with some overtly homosexual undertones all got their start on The Shaggy Show.

ICP haven’t produced a new episode of The Shaggy Show since 2003 (the whole Sixth Jokers Card era), but it’s back and I’m sure there will be many more episodes coming as they tour and leading up and through this Summer’s Gathering of the Juggalos. I’m sure someone upped all the old episodes onto youtube, so if you want to catch up that would be the place to hit up/ ICP for whatever reason went and removed all of them their website(s). So kick back and enjoy or talk shit about it, whatever tickles your fancy…