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Juggalo or Juggalette (the latter being feminine) is a name given to fans of Insane Clown Posse or any other Psychopathic Records hip hop group. Juggalos have developed their own idioms, slang, and characteristics.[1]

History

The term originated during a 1994 live performance by Insane Clown Posse. During the song "The Juggla", Joseph Bruce addressed the audience as Juggalos, and the positive response resulted in Bruce and Joseph Utsler using the word thereafter to refer to themselves and their friends, family, and fans, including other Psychopathic Records artists.[2] The fanbase boomed following the release of their third album, Riddle Box, in 1995, leading Insane Clown Posse to write the songs "What Is A Juggalo?" and "Down With The Clown" for their 1997 album The Great Milenko.[3]

Characteristics

According to Utsler, "[Juggalos come] from all walks of life – from poverty, from rich, from all religions, all colors. [...] It doesn't matter if you're born with a silver spoon in your mouth, or a crack rock in your mouth."[4] Juggalos have compared themselves to a family.[5][6]

Common characteristics of identifying a member of the Juggalo subculture are as follows:

  • Drinking and spraying the inexpensive soft drink Faygo,
  • Listening to horror-themed rap music
  • Wearing face paint
  • Wearing HatchetGear
  • The Running Hatchet man logo applied on personal effects
  • Doing hair in the spider legs style, i.e. like the Twiztid members[5]
  • Displaying the gesture of wicked clown, the westside sign with the left hand and the C sign in ASL with the right, with arms crossed over.

Juggalos view the lyrics of Psychopathic Records artists, which are often violent in nature, as a catharsis for aggression.[7][8]

Many characteristics of the Juggalo culture originated from in the 1980s, when Joseph Bruce and his family were living in poverty. He and his brother Robert received all their clothes from rummage sales, and their food from canned food drives held at their own school.[9] Due to their poverty, the Bruce Brothers were the brunt of many jokes in school. However, the brothers were not ashamed of their living standards, and instead embraced it.[9] Joe even made a name for themselves, Floobs.[9] According to Joe, a Floob was essentially a scrub, but not just an ordinary scrub. A Floob "wore the same old shoes and shitty clothes from rummage sales [...] but [...] didn't even have to be cool. [Floobs] turned [their] scrubbiness into something [they] could be proud of."[9] Though Joe only specifically names himself and his brother as Floobs, he alludes to other Floobs whom he had not met or known of, but were living in the same conditions as he and his brother; the respect that Floobs had for each other and their family-like embrace of likewise people influenced the philosophy held among Juggalos.[9]

Crime attributed to Juggalos

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment classifies Juggalos as a "loosely-organized hybrid gang" whose transient nature makes them difficult to monitor effectively, and stated that certain subsets of the subculture engage in criminal activity and violence. According to the report, "Transient, criminal Juggalo groups pose a threat to communities due to the potential for violence, drug use/sales, and their general destructive and violent nature." [1]

There have been several incidents of criminal activity attributed to self-identified Juggalos.[10][11][12][13] Some media outlets have attributed the incidents to the music produced by Psychopathic Records. Although Juggalos have denied any connection to gang activity,[6] authorities have classified them as a gang in Utah;[14] Arizona;[6] Monroe County, Pennsylvania;[15][16] and Modesto, California.[17] Because of this, some schools have prohibited students from wearing Insane Clown Posse related paraphernalia.[18][19]

Psychopathic Records and Insane Clown Posse have repeatedly denounced violence within the fandom. Alex Abbiss, former CEO of Psychopathic Records, has suggested that many of the incidents had been committed by crazy individuals that only claim to be Juggalos as an excuse for their actions.[20]

Gathering of the Juggalos

Main article: Gathering of the Juggalos

The Gathering of the Juggalos (The Gathering or GOTJ) is an annual festival put on by Psychopathic Records, featuring performances by the entire label as well as numerous well-known musical groups and underground artists. It was founded by Robert Bruce, Insane Clown Posse, and their label in 2000. The Gathering has featured bands of a variety of genres within hip hop and rock, though the majority of the acts perform horrorcore and hardcore hip hop, similar to that of Psychopathic Records artists. [21][21][22]

Described by Joseph Bruce as a "Juggalo Woodstock",[21] the Gathering of the Juggalos spans four days and includes concerts, wrestling, games, contests, autograph sessions, karaoke, and seminars with artists. Over its first eleven events, the festival has drawn an attendance of about 107,500 fans.[23]

Psychopathic Records launched the professional wrestling company Juggalo Championship Wrestling in 1999.

In 2009, Psychopathic Video filmed a documentary about Juggalos entitled A Family Underground.[24][25][26]

Mainstream media has also made references to the Juggalo subculture. In 2009, television sketch comedy Saturday Night Live began a reoccurring series of sketches about the "Kickspit Underground Rock Festival" which parodies Juggalos and the Gathering of the Juggalos.[27][28] The following year, the television show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia parodied Juggalos on the episode "Dee Reynolds: Shaping America’s Youth".[29] In 2011, the television show Workaholics aired an episode called "Straight Up Juggahos" that revolved around Juggalos and an Insane Clown Posse concert.[30] Later that year, an independent documentary entitled American Juggalo was released.[31]

Several well-known figures have identified themselves as Juggalos. These include actors Kane Hodder[32] and Charlie Sheen,[33] professional wrestlers Kazushige Nosawa,[34] Vampiro,[35] Colt Cabana,[36] and Willie Mack,[37] and rappers Chuck D,[38] Coolio,[39] Kung Fu Vampire,[40] MURS,[41] and Vanilla Ice.[42]

Further reading

  • Bruce, Joseph. Nathan Fostey (ed.). ICP: Behind the Paint (2nd Edition ed.). Royal Oak, Michigan: Psychopathic Records. ISBN [[Special:BookSources/0-9741846-0-83|0-9741846-0-83[[Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs]]]]. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help); Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |origdate= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |origmonth= ignored (help)

References

  1. ^ Mike Brown (July 2008). "Mike Brown's Juggalodown". SLUG Magazine. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
  2. ^ Bruce, Joseph. "Ringmaster's Word". In Nathan Fostey (ed.). ICP: Behind the Paint (2nd Edition ed.). Royal Oak, Michigan: Psychopathic Records. pp. 237–238. ISBN [[Special:BookSources/0-9741846-0-83|0-9741846-0-83[[Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs]]]]. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help); Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |origdate= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |origmonth= ignored (help)
  3. ^ http://www.avclub.com/articles/violent-j-of-insane-clown-posse,60282/
  4. ^ Mervis, Scott (May 20, 2010). "Insane Clown Posse is back in the Dark Carnival". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  5. ^ a b McDevitt, Katie (July 27, 2008). "Fans or gang? Meet the Juggalos". East Valley Tribune. Retrieved 4 April 2009. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  6. ^ a b c Cizmar, Martin (November 18, 2008). "Insane Clown Posse's Juggalos Aren't a Gang — Just Punk Kids". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved 4 April 2009. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ Stevens, Bill (March 29, 2009). "Gulf High's Juggalo Cleanup Crew displays edgy look, genuine caring". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved 4 April 2009. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  8. ^ Davila, Florangela (July 18, 2006). "Hanging with the Juggalos". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 11 April 2009. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  9. ^ a b c d e Bruce, Joseph. "The Floobs". In Nathan Fostey (ed.). ICP: Behind the Paint (2nd Edition ed.). Royal Oak, Michigan: Psychopathic Records. p. 35. ISBN [[Special:BookSources/0-9741846-0-83|0-9741846-0-83[[Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs]]]]. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help); Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |origmonth= ignored (help)
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  14. ^ Reavy, Pat (July 30, 2008). "Two men arrested after ax attack on teen". Deseret News. Retrieved 2008-08-16. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  15. ^ "Teens heading to trial for stabbing murder". Pocono News. Retrieved 2009-09-20. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  16. ^ "Local police turn a wary eye to controversial band's followers". The Morning Call. Retrieved 2009-09-20. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  17. ^ Herendeen, Susan (July 5, 2009). "Juggalos take issue with label as a gang". Modesto Bee. Retrieved 24 September 2009.
  18. ^ ICP on the Juggalo phenomenon. The Howard Stern Show. September 1, 2009. Howard 100. {{cite serial}}: Unknown parameter |serieslink= ignored (|series-link= suggested) (help)
  19. ^ Cooper, Sam (December 4, 2009). "Juggalos posse up like clowns in Watertown". Republican-American.
  20. ^ Abbiss, Alex (February 7, 2006). "A Sad Tragedy". Psychopathic Records. Archived from the original on 2006-03-24. Retrieved 2008-07-22. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  21. ^ a b c Bruce, Joseph. "Hatchet Rising". In Nathan Fostey (ed.). ICP: Behind the Paint (2nd Edition ed.). Royal Oak, Michigan: Psychopathic Records. pp. 470–496. ISBN [[Special:BookSources/0-9741846-0-83|0-9741846-0-83[[Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs]]]]. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help); Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |origdate= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |origmonth= ignored (help) Cite error: The named reference "BehindthePaint470" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  22. ^ Howard Stern (host) and Insane Clown Posse (guests) (1 September 2009). ICP on Howard Stern 9.1.09. The Howard Stern Show. 3:00 minutes in. Sirius Satellite Radio. Howard 100. {{cite serial}}: Unknown parameter |serieslink= ignored (|series-link= suggested) (help)
  23. ^ Gary Graff (2011-07-29). "Insane Clown Posse: Juggalos Will Love Charlie Sheen, Bobby Brown at Gathering". Billboard. Retrieved 2011-07-30.
  24. ^ Graham, Adam (October 30, 2008). "ICP's annual Halloween bash brings the insane circus to town". The Detroit News. Retrieved 2008-11-02. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  25. ^ Insane Clown Posse (presenters) (2009-01-27). Weekly Freekly Weekly January Edition (internet news). Detroit, Michigan: Psychopathic Records. Event occurs at 7:45. Retrieved 2009-01-30.
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  28. ^ Dave Itzkoff (2011-05-01). "Beneath the Greasepaint, the Roar of 'Fam-i-ly!'". Music. The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-02-22.
  29. ^ David Sims (2010-11-11). ""Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth"". Onion Inc. Retrieved 2011-05-31.
  30. ^ Camille Dodero (2011-05-19). "Q&A: Workaholics Director Kyle Newacheck On Setting His Comedy Central Show At The Gathering Of The Juggalos". Village Voice, LLC. Retrieved 2011-05-26.
  31. ^ Aaron Foley (2011-09-29). "Video of the day: 'American Juggalo,' a look inside Insane Clown Posse's annual gathering". Michigan Live LLC.
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  35. ^ Vampiro (July 7, 2006). "For my Juggalo brothers and sisters". MySpace. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
  36. ^ Colt Cabana (Interviewer) and Insane Clown Posse (Interviewees) (2011-02-17). "AOW 30: Insane Clown Posse". Art Of Wrestling Radio. Event occurs at 9:25. Retrieved 2011-02-17. I'm a Juggalo. I have been for a while.
  37. ^ Colt Cabana (Interviewer) and Willie Mack (Interviewee) (2011-05-04). "AOW 41: Willie Mack". Art Of Wrestling Radio. Event occurs at 21:53. Retrieved 2011-05-05. Yeah I'm a Juggalo.
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