In our interview with ICP — Insane Clown Posse — we ask Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope about their favourite rock and steel bands. And we chat about nu-metal from the subgenre’s greatest rapper to why they like the brand new faculty bands greater than the basic ones.
Elsewhere, the duo mirror on their time working at St. Andrews Corridor in Detroit, Michigan. They have been lucky sufficient to catch legendary bands very early of their profession, together with a younger Rage In opposition to the Machine enjoying to a few hundred individuals within the 1,000 capability room.
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“I like grunge, man. I like some ’80s steel too, however I am an enormous grunge fan. I take heed to it, nonetheless, continuously,” Violent J tells us. “I additionally like issues like Korn.”
“After I was a child at my mother’s home, it was Queen or the Beatles or Motown shit, stuff like that,” Shaggy 2 Dope seems again. “You have to be a rattling idiot to be a musician and never perceive and take heed to all types of music.”
All through their profession, ICP have readily embraced different types of music, even past rap, hip-hop, rock and steel.
Early on, Violent J’s huge grunge favourite was Pearl Jam, however currently it has been Alice in Chains. “I used to be late in discovering how deep and the way superior they actually have been. I acquired to see them at one of many final [four] reveals they ever did [with Layne Staley] once they have been opening for KISS in ’96.”
He shouts out Pearl Jam once more, in addition to post-grunge standouts Puddle of Mudd. “I believe Wes [Scantlin] is type of loopy, however I positively am a fan. No genius will not be loopy.”
“I did not totally perceive the depth of grunge music till I acquired older,” Violent J continues, “On the time, I used to be very conscious of what Pearl Jam was doing and Nirvana. However later in my life, I am going again and examine this shit — the information I by no means heard.”
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ICP’s Nu-Steel Favorites
Whereas we would by no means model ICP nu-metal, their intersection at rock and rap’s crossroads invitations a dialogue about nu-metal and who’s one of the best rapper within the scene.
“We did a track with Fred Durst,” Violent J says when requested about nu-metal rappers. “I like Fred Durst and it is so nice to see Limp Bizkit smash it proper now.”
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Shaggy 2 Dope provides, “You have acquired motherfuckers in nu-metal that, throughout the elements the place they do rap, they spit insanely fucking good.”
For him, he is actually into the brand new faculty of nu-metal and entice steel.
“Metropolis Morgue — fucking wonderful. Kim Dracula, Nathan James… holy fuck, man. I do know numerous them got here up listening to rap too, in order that they know how one can do it. It isn’t like again within the days of rock ‘n’ roll guys making an attempt to rap [mocks basic rap cadence]. That they had no clue how one can do it,” he says.
“At the moment’s nu-metal is loads higher than the outdated nu-metal,” provides Violent J. “I wasn’t an enormous fan of nu-metal within the ’90s.”
One old-fashioned nu-metal band they each admired although, is Korn.
“Korn was the toughest shit I ever heard when that got here out. That ‘Blind’ track – what the fuck? That shit was mind-bending. I used to be such a hip-hop head on the time, however I bumped that report insanely,” Shaggy 2 Dope enthuses.
“Korn got here busting by means of the wall like Kool-Support Man. It simply left a gap for everyone else to comply with,” Violent J assesses. “Every thing about them — the swag, the [imitates slap bass]… They’re innovators. They modified music eternally.”
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