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The Ringmaster
The Ringmaster cover
Studio album by Insane Clown Posse
Released March 8, 1994
Recorded 1993 – 1994
Genre Horrorcore, Midwest hip hop
Length 70:12
Label Psychopathic Records
Producer Mike E. Clark and Insane Clown Posse
Professional reviews
Insane Clown Posse chronology
Beverly Kills 50187
(1993)		 The Ringmaster
(1994)		 The Terror Wheel
(1994)
Joker's Cards chronology
Carnival of Carnage
(1992)		 The Ringmaster
(1994)		 Riddle Box
(1995)

The Ringmaster is the second studio album by American hip hop group Insane Clown Posse, released on March 8, 1994 by Psychopathic Records. It is the second Joker's Card entry in the group's Dark Carnival saga. The album is meant as "all of your sins and hatred whipped and spun into form, a form that will bring about this dreaded Carnival's visit". This album gained Insane Clown Posse a strong local following, and they began to sell out at large clubs such as St. Andrew's Hall and the State Theater. The Ringmaster was the first Insane Clown Posse album to be certified Gold; it was certified Gold a second time following its reissue by Island Records. The album spawned one single, "Chicken Huntin'".

The album contains 16 studio tracks. Featured guests on the album include Blake Webb and Capitol E; Jumpsteady also cameos as the cop in the intro of "My Fun House".

The song "Mr. Johnson's Head" was subsequently remixed in 1997, as it was intended to be featured on the group's fourth studio album The Great Milenko. The idea was later scrapped and the re-recording was released on Insane Clown Posse's 1998 compilation Forgotten Freshness Volumes 1 & 2.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Wax Museum" – 5:12
  2. "Murder Go Round" – 5:38
  3. "Chicken Huntin'" – 4:08
  4. "Mr. Johnson's Head" – 6:10
  5. "Southwest Song" – 5:45
  6. "Get Off Me, Dog!" – 1:47
  7. "Who Asked You" – 3:00
  8. "The Dead One" – 4:34
  9. "My Fun House" – 4:58
  10. "For the Maggots" – 1:46
  11. "Wagon Wagon" – 3:55
  12. "The Loons" – 5:28
  13. "Love Song" – 4:18
  14. "Bugz on My Nugz/Bugz on My Nutz" – 4:29
  15. "House of Mirrors" (featuring Capitol E) – 6:06
  16. "Ringmaster's Word" – 2:51

[edit] Message

The day has come, the time of reckoning. Who will perish in dreaded hell and who's soul will be content within the pleasures of heaven? Looking past the words spoken with a wicked tongue and looking past the evil deeds done in one's life, but instead looking into the conscious of man. What is the real evil that seems to plague mankind? Who are the real demons that walk this earth? Is it those whose minds have become devious because of a lifetime spent inside of a caged hell, or is it those who invented this caged hell years ago and done nothing to help destroy it yet? Who's guilty, Frankenstein or the doctor that created him? The sword, or the man who has slain with it? Which is the real evil, the man who kills another for food or the man who does not share his food to avoid the killing? While you sit in judgment of a criminal, you may very well be the one who's guilty. Guilty of greed, deception and hate. Those who are rejected at the gates of heaven, shall be dragged off into the pits of hell. Viciously torn from this life by the non-living, the phantoms of the dead. These beasts take the form of a demented carnival, that of a wicked, dark, circus, led by one. One who was created by your own evil ways. One who will judge your very fate. The one known only as... The Ringmaster.

[edit] Song notes

  • "Chicken Huntin'" was later remixed and featured on Insane Clown Posse's next album, 1995's Riddle Box.
  • "Wagon Wagon" was the result of three recording attempts. The first produced track was titled "Hey Vato", which was later released on Insane Clown Posse's 1996 compilation Mutilation Mix. The second was a song titled "Walkin' Round", which has yet to be released.
  • Track 14 is sometimes labelled as "Bugz on My Nugz,". On the Island release of The Ringmaster, the song is listed as "Bugz on My Nutz."[2]
  • A music video for "Chicken' Huntin'" was produced, but it was not released until 2007, when it was included on the release Psychopathic: The Videos by the group themselves.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] References

  1. ^ (2004) in Brackett, Nathan: The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster, 405–6. ISBN 0743201698. 
  2. ^ Insane Clown Posse - Official Artist Website - 1994 - Ringmaster LP
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