Insane Clown Posse - The Great Milenko


Don't be mad 'cause i'm doin' me better than you doin' you. I got a raise today. Not a secret strings attached raise, a proper keep doing a great job for more money raise. So, obviously i went on a great hip-hop binge. Childish Gambino, Run The Jewels, Geto Boys, Gravediggaz (i love horror core, no surprise), and then i thought "what's a great album from a terrible rap group?" 

I have an album for that! Here's The Great Milenko from Insane Clown Posse. No, we aren't going to learn how magnets work, but we do get an intro from Alice Cooper. I'm sure you all know ICP is a concept group like Coheed & Cambria, or Mac Sabbath. They are insane clowns in an evil carnival from the Netherworld. Each album is centered around the arrival of a new character from the carnival. Milenko is kind of like the Ghost of Christmas Future, all the songs are kind of getting what's coming to you fables. Obviously the whole thing fizzled out into nonsense by the last album, Shangri La was heaven and they turned the whole thing into a weird pseudo-Christian joke, but in the early days, the marketing gimmick about the world ending was fun.

I've heard most of their other albums, i have The Ringmaster hiding around here somewhere too. They aren't as good. We could analyze it from all sorts of perspectives, but mostly it's the juvenile humor used as a foil for calling out hypocrisy that i like. That doesn't mean they aren't terrible, it's just the reason i can thoroughly enjoy it. Even if you think the whole this is completely stupid and grotesque, you have to admit that this album does an amazing job of it. It's an in depth exploration of that rage feeling of wanting revenge for injustice, like Offspring's Bad Habit.

Slash, Legs Diamond, and Steve Jones are on here too. They make fun of themselves, you get band mythos and testicle jokes, the beats and samples are great, classic hip-hop funny spoken interludes.

I can't help it, i'm laughing out loud, it's so awesomely ridiculous, i absolutely love it. It's a great album for every reason i've ever called any album great. Yes, it takes a strong sense of terrible humor to appreciate, but i've got exactly the terrible sense of humor necessary, and i'm not ashamed to enjoy it. Cheers.

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