Carnival of Carnage
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| Studio album by Insane Clown Posse | ||||||||||||||
| Released | October 18, 1992 | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1991 – 1992 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Horrorcore, Midwest hip hop | |||||||||||||
| Length | 66:00 | |||||||||||||
| Label | Psychopathic Records | |||||||||||||
| Producer | Insane Clown Posse Mike Clark Esham Chuck Miller |
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Carnival of Carnage is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Insane Clown Posse, released on October 18, 1992 by Psychopathic Records. It is the first Joker's Card entry in the group's Dark Carnival saga. The album is meant as a rage against the rich and the government who do not care about the "poor" neighborhoods of society; "carnival of carnage" is also a term used to describe the ghetto. Carnival of Carnage sold 17 copies on its release date.
The album contains 14 studio tracks and an intro. One of the studio tracks from the album was previously released on the "Intelligence and Violence" and Dog Beats demos (the title on the former release being "Wizard of Delray"). Featured guests on the album include Kid Rock, Capitol E, Jumpsteady and Esham.
The album was remastered and re-released in 1998 by Island Records, but due to uncleared samples in select tracks, "Blackin' Your Eyes" and "Night of the Axe" were absent from the reissue. The outro to the latter is also moved to the beginning of "Psychopathic". It was once more released afterwards by Hatchet Gear with the original album's track listing, including the two previously removed tracks.
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[edit] Track listing
| # | Title | Time | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Guest(s) |
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| 1 | "Intro" | 1:20 | |||
| 2 | "Carnival of Carnage" | 2:32 | Joseph Bruce Esham A. Smith |
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| 3 | "The Juggla" | 4:55 | Joseph Bruce | Mike Clark Joseph Bruce |
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| 4 | "First Day Out" | 4:20 | Joseph Bruce Joseph Utsler |
Mike Clark Joseph Bruce |
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| 5 | "Red Neck Hoe" | 4:50 | Joseph Bruce Joseph Utsler |
Chuck Miller Joseph Bruce |
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| 6 | "Wizard of the Hood" | 5:24 | Joseph Bruce Joseph Utsler |
Chuck Miller Joseph Bruce |
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| 7 | "Guts on the Ceiling" | 4:24 | Joseph Bruce | Mike Clark Joseph Bruce |
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| 8 | "Is That You?" | 4:34 | Joseph Bruce R. Ritchie |
Mike Clark R. Ritchie |
Kid Rock |
| 9 | "Night of the Axe" | 5:00 | Joseph Bruce | Chuck Miller Joseph Bruce |
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| 10 | "Psychopathic" | 4:43 | Joseph Bruce | Chuck Miller Joseph Bruce |
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| 11 | "Blackin' Your Eyes" | 4:40 | Joseph Bruce Joseph Utsler |
Esham A. Smith Joseph Bruce |
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| 12 | "Never Had it Made" | 5:45 | Joseph Bruce | Mike Clark Joseph Bruce Esham A. Smith |
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| 13 | "Your Rebel Flag" | 4:23 | Joseph Bruce Joseph Utsler |
Chuck Miller Joseph Bruce |
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| 14 | "Ghetto Freak Show" | 4:14 | Joseph Bruce | Esham A. Smith Joseph Bruce |
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| 15 | "Taste" | 5:10 | Joseph Bruce Robert Bruce Joseph Utsler Nathan Williams Capitol E. Esham A. Smith |
Mike Clark Joseph Bruce |
Jump Steady Capitol E. Nate The Mack Esham |
[edit] Message
Welcome to the show, the traveling ghetto. No longer will the ghetto just be that slum that you keep your kids away from, that slum that you drive through pointing and gawking at. No longer will the ghetto just be a slum that you hear about on the news. If someone from this hell hole wanders into your neighborhood he is quickly noticed and harassed and shunned back into the home you've given him. As you watch the kids play in the park on your street you never even think about the kids in the ghetto. If you don't care, who does? Years of breathing the souls of rotted minds has created a bad case of 'Ghetto Insanity'. You walk their streets and are stared at as a freak show, less than human, an ogre walking the streets paved with gold. If those of the ghetto are nothing more than carnival exhibits to the upper class, then let's give them the show they deserve to see. No more hearing of this show because you can witness it in your own front yard! A traveling mass of carnage, the same carnage witnessed daily in the ghetto, can be yours to witness, feel and suffer. No longer killing one another, but killing the ones who have ignored our cries for help. Like a hurricane leaving a trail of destruction, the Carnival of Carnage!
[edit] Album notes
- An unreleased radio edit of "Psychopathic" with alternate lyrics exists. [2]
- "Carnival of Carnage" was recorded to sound almost exactly the same forwards as it does backwards.
- "Carnival of Carnage" was originally recorded by Esham but he pronounced "carnage" as "carnicks" and refused to redo it, prompting Violent J to do it himself.
- Esham was paid $500 for his appearance on "Taste". Kid Rock demanded a hundred more than Esham, and was thus paid $600 to appear on "Is That You?"
- Kid Rock showed up to record "Is That You?" intoxicated, but re-recorded his vocals and record scratching the following day.
- "Red Neck Hoe" was re-recorded with Twiztid as special guests in 1999 for the Psychopathic Records compilation Psychopathics from Outer Space and was re-named "Red Neck Hoe '99."
- Violent J has stated in an interview that he and Shaggy 2 Dope were not friends with or fans of Kid Rock, who appeared on the track "Is That You?". He was asked to appear mainly because of his local success in the Detroit area. However, Violent J has also stated that, as a musician, Kid Rock has paid his dues and deserved the success that he's received.[3]
- The song "Wizard of the Hood" was derived from the tape Intelligence and Violence, originally titled "Wizard of Delray", which contains very similar lyrics and concept. It was re-worked with different lyrics for Dog Beats, which is the same version as found on Carnival of Carnage, although the version that appears here has a shorter outro. 11 years later Violent J's debut solo album Wizard of the Hood, which goes further into the story of J's trip to Oz, took its name from this song.
- Original ICP member and brother of Shaggy 2 Dope, John Kickjazz, appeared on "Your Rebel Flag", "Psychopathic", ""Blacken' Your Eyes", "Wizard of the Hood", "Red Neck Hoe", and "Taste".
[edit] Personnel
- Violent J – vocals
- Shaggy 2 Dope – vocals, turntables
- John Kickjazz – vocals
- Kid Rock – guest vocals
- Capitol E – guest vocals
- Jumpsteady – guest vocals
- Esham – guest vocals
- Mike E. Clark – turntables, production
[edit] References
- ^ (2004) in Brackett, Nathan: The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster, 405–6. ISBN 0743201698.
- ^ Psychopathic Edited Version. Psychopathic Records. Retrieved on 2008-05-28.
- ^ Interview with Violent J about Kid Rock. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.
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