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* {{Medley}}: "Real Underground Baby" is a 13 minute DJ megamix of memorable ICP songs against what one reviewer described as a "booty beat".[[note]]These include "Music/CarnivalOfCarnage", "Your Rebel Flag", "Mr. Johnson's Head", "Get Off Me Dog!", "Riddle Box", "Toy Box", "Music/TheGreatMilenko", "Down With the Clown", "Fuck the World", "Bring It On", "[[Music/TheWraithShangriLa Birthday Bitches]]", "Hell's Forecast" and "The Witch".[[/note]]
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* {{Medley}}: "Real Underground Baby" is a 13 minute DJ megamix of memorable ICP songs against what one reviewer described as a "booty beat".[[note]]These include "Music/CarnivalOfCarnage", "Your Rebel Flag", "Mr. "[[Music/{{Ringmaster}} Mr. Johnson's Head", Head]]", "Get Off Me Dog!", "Riddle Box", "Music/RiddleBox", "Toy Box", "Music/TheGreatMilenko", "Down With the Clown", "Fuck "[[Music/TheAmazingJeckelBrothers Fuck the World", World]]", "Bring It On", "[[Music/TheWraithShangriLa Birthday Bitches]]", "Hell's Forecast" and "The Witch".[[/note]]
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* VindicatedByHistory: Negatively reviewed by some reviewers and fans at the time,.who felt that the absence of Mike E. Clark as producer hurt the album, today, ''Hell's Pit'' is seen as one of ICP's ''best'' albums, due to the DarkerAndEdgier approach to lyrics and effective minimalist Hip-Hop style.
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* TearJerker: "Angels Falling". The singer recounts how he began to shoot at the sky with any weapon he can get his hands on. The reason? [[spoiler:The woman he loved is dead, and he can't accept it. He hopes that he can wing her and bring her back down to him.]]
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* SequelSong: "Night of the 44" is a sequel to the ''Music/CarnivalOfCarnage'' song "Night of the Axe".
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* SampledUp: One reviewer completely misidentified the sample on "Bowling Balls", which was lifted from Music/PublicEnemy's instrumental "Security of the First World", which in turn samples "Funky Drummer" by Music/JamesBrown. However, the ''Allmusic'' review incorrectly identifies the song as being sampled from Music/{{Madonna}}'s "Justify My Love", on which producer Music/LennyKravitz utilized an uncredited sample from the Public Enemy instrumental.
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* SampledUp: One reviewer completely misidentified the sample on "Bowling Balls", which was lifted from Music/PublicEnemy's instrumental "Security of the First World", which in turn samples "Funky Drummer" by Music/JamesBrown. However, the ''Allmusic'' review incorrectly identifies the song as being sampled from Music/{{Madonna}}'s "Justify My Love", on which producer Music/LennyKravitz utilized an uncredited sample from the Public Enemy instrumental.
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* {{Sampling}}: A notable example occurs on "Bowling Balls", if only for how one reviewer completely misidentified the sample. The song samples Music/PublicEnemy's instrumental "Security of the First World", which in turn samples "Funky Drummer" by Music/JamesBrown. However, the ''Allmusic'' review incorrectly identifies the song as being sampled from Music/{{Madonna}}'s "Justify My Love", on which producer Music/LennyKravitz utilized an uncredited sample from the Public Enemy instrumental.
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* {{Sampling}}: A notable example occurs on "Bowling Balls", if only for how one SampledUp: One reviewer completely misidentified the sample. The song samples sample on "Bowling Balls", which was lifted from Music/PublicEnemy's instrumental "Security of the First World", which in turn samples "Funky Drummer" by Music/JamesBrown. However, the ''Allmusic'' review incorrectly identifies the song as being sampled from Music/{{Madonna}}'s "Justify My Love", on which producer Music/LennyKravitz utilized an uncredited sample from the Public Enemy instrumental.
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The album completes[[note]]the first deck of[[/note]] ICP's Joker's Cards ConceptAlbum saga. Every song's lyrics are about death, with the emphasis on {{Hell}} rather than [[TheShangriLa Shangri-La]], the songs are predominately [[MurderBallad Murder Ballads]]. The lyrics emphasize the darker and more evil side of {{Horrorcore}}, in contrast to the lighter PopRap approach taken in the lyrics of the ''Shangri-La'' album. Additionally, [[NewSoundAlbum the album's style is minimalist Hip-Hop, in contrast to the]] RapRock [[NewSoundAlbum sound of Shangri-La]]. It also features zero SpecialGuest appearances, with Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope serving as the only rappers delivering verses on the entire album, due to the gravity of the messaging they are trying to deliver. As a result, ''Hell's Pit'' is one often one of ICP's best-reviewed releases.
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The album completes[[note]]the first deck of[[/note]] ICP's Joker's Cards ConceptAlbum saga. Every song's lyrics are about death, with the emphasis on {{Hell}} rather than [[TheShangriLa Shangri-La]], the Shangri-La]]. The songs are predominately [[MurderBallad Murder Ballads]]. The lyrics emphasize the darker and more evil side of {{Horrorcore}}, in contrast to the lighter PopRap approach taken in the lyrics of the ''Shangri-La'' album. Additionally, [[NewSoundAlbum the album's style is minimalist Hip-Hop, in contrast to the]] RapRock [[NewSoundAlbum sound of Shangri-La]]. It also features zero SpecialGuest appearances, with Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope serving as the only rappers delivering verses on the entire album, due to the gravity of the messaging they are trying to deliver. As a result, ''Hell's Pit'' is one often one of ICP's best-reviewed releases.
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The album completes[[note]]the first deck of[[/note]] ICP's Joker's Cards ConceptAlbum saga. Much like their previous album, every song's lyrics are about death. However, with the emphasis on {{Hell}} rather than [[TheShangriLa Shangri-La]], the songs are predominately [[MurderBallad Murder Ballads]]. The lyrics emphasize the darker and more evil side of {{Horrorcore}}, in contrast to the lighter PopRap approach taken in the lyrics of the ''Shangri-La'' album. Additionally, [[NewSoundAlbum the album's style is minimalist Hip-Hop, in contrast to the]] RapRock [[NewSoundAlbum sound of Shangri-La]]. It also features zero SpecialGuest appearances, with Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope serving as the only rappers delivering verses on the entire album, due to the gravity of the messaging they are trying to deliver. As a result, ''Hell's Pit'' is one often one of ICP's best-reviewed releases.
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The album completes[[note]]the first deck of[[/note]] ICP's Joker's Cards ConceptAlbum saga. Much like their previous album, every Every song's lyrics are about death. However, death, with the emphasis on {{Hell}} rather than [[TheShangriLa Shangri-La]], the songs are predominately [[MurderBallad Murder Ballads]]. The lyrics emphasize the darker and more evil side of {{Horrorcore}}, in contrast to the lighter PopRap approach taken in the lyrics of the ''Shangri-La'' album. Additionally, [[NewSoundAlbum the album's style is minimalist Hip-Hop, in contrast to the]] RapRock [[NewSoundAlbum sound of Shangri-La]]. It also features zero SpecialGuest appearances, with Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope serving as the only rappers delivering verses on the entire album, due to the gravity of the messaging they are trying to deliver. As a result, ''Hell's Pit'' is one often one of ICP's best-reviewed releases.
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** "In My Room" with lots of {{Yandere}} goodness. The singer is involved with a girl and they hang out a lot [[TitleDrop in his room]]. One night, he murders one of his mother's cats because it [[DisproportionateRetribution scared her]]. It certainly doesn't help that you actually hear a cat yowling during the verse. The girl is obviously freaked out by his behavior and runs away. Then she tells him that she was seen by a neighbor's kid and he proceeds to brutally murder the kid and his parents. It doesn't help that the song leaves it ambiguous as to what the girl actually is: a ghost? A demon? [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness A hallucination?]] And on top of all of that, the girl never comes back, forcing him to realize he's just killed those people for ''nothing''.
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** "In My Room" with lots of {{Yandere}} goodness. The singer J is involved with a girl [[ParanormalRomance ghost girl]] and they hang out a lot [[TitleDrop in his room]]. One night, he murders one of his mother's cats because it [[DisproportionateRetribution scared her]]. It certainly doesn't help that you actually hear a cat yowling during the verse. The girl is obviously freaked out by his behavior and runs away. Then she tells him that she was seen by a neighbor's kid and he proceeds to brutally murder the kid and his parents. It doesn't help that the song leaves it ambiguous as to what the girl actually is: a ghost? A demon? [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness A hallucination?]] And on top of all of that, the girl never comes back, forcing him to realize he's just killed those people for ''nothing''.
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* BonusMaterial: One of two DVD's are randomly packaged with different copies of the album, giving buyers either a copy of their longform MusicVideo ''Bowling Balls'' or a [[ConcertFilm Concert DVD]] with the Music Video for "Real Underground Baby" included as a bonus feature.
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* BonusMaterial: One of two DVD's are randomly packaged with different copies of the album, giving buyers either a copy of their longform MusicVideo ''Bowling Balls'' or a [[ConcertFilm Concert DVD]] with the Music Video for "Real "[[{{Medley}} Real Underground Baby" Baby]]" included as a bonus feature.
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* {{Medley}}: "Real Underground Baby" is a 13 minute DJ megamix of memorable ICP songs against what one reviewer described as a "booty beat".[[note]]These include "Music/CarnivalOfCarnage", "Your Rebel Flag", "Mr. Johnson's Head", "Get Off Me Dog!", "Riddle Box", "Toy Box", "Music/TheGreatMilenko", "Down With the Clown", "Fuck the World", "Bring It On", "[[Music/TheWraithShangriLa Birthday Bitches]]", "Hell's Forecast" and "The Witch".[[/note]]
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* NewSoundAlbum: Their previous album was guitar-heavy RapRock with PopRap lyrical themes, while ''Hells Pit'' is predominantly minimalist [[PsychoStrings Horror Synth]]-driven HipHop, the instrumentation mostly consisting of programmed beats and synthesizer parts with minimal {{Sampling}}, with "Attack of the Baseheads" being one of the only tracks on the album to feature electric guitar, giving the album a more unnerving quality compared to the fun energy of the ''Shangri-La'' album. It also almost entirely lacks the [[ComedyMusic Comedy]] of their previous recordings.
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* NewSoundAlbum: Their previous album was guitar-heavy RapRock with PopRap lyrical themes, while ''Hells Pit'' is predominantly minimalist [[PsychoStrings Horror Synth]]-driven HipHop, the instrumentation mostly consisting of programmed beats and synthesizer parts with minimal {{Sampling}}, with "Attack of the Baseheads" being one of the only a few tracks on the album to feature featuring electric guitar, giving the album a more unnerving quality compared to the fun energy of the ''Shangri-La'' album. It also almost entirely lacks the [[ComedyMusic Comedy]] of their previous recordings.
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* BoisterousWeakling: [[{{Satan}} The Witch]] is never shown to have any supernatural powers, relying solely on lies and trickery to get it's way.
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* ConsummateLiar: Unfortunately for those [[{{Satan}} the Witch]] tries to tempt, it is ''really good'' at lies and trickery.
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* FireAndBrimstoneHell: The song "Every Day I Die" dedcribes waking up every day in Hell, murdering people horrifically, getting horrifically murdered yourself, and then waking up to do more of the same. Every day is different, but it doesn't get any less horrible.
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* FireAndBrimstoneHell: The song "Every Day I Die" dedcribes describes waking up every day in Hell, murdering people horrifically, getting horrifically murdered yourself, and then waking up to do more of the same. Every day is different, but it doesn't get any less horrible.
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''Hell's Pit'' is a 2004 album by the HipHop duo Music/InsaneClownPosse and the DarkerAndEdgier follow-up to 2002's ''Music/TheWraithShangriLa''. It is their second album to not use the word "UsefulNotes/{{Juggalo}}", because, in Violent J's words, "I don't want to see one motherfuckin' Juggalo in Hell's Pit."
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''Hell's Pit'' is a 2004 album by the HipHop duo Music/InsaneClownPosse and the DarkerAndEdgier follow-up to 2002's ''Music/TheWraithShangriLa''. It is their second album after ''Music/CarnivalOfCarnage'' to not use the word "UsefulNotes/{{Juggalo}}", because, in Violent J's words, "I don't want to see one motherfuckin' Juggalo in Hell's Pit."
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* BonusMaterial: Two DVDs are randomly packaged with the album, giving buyers either a copy of their longform MusicVideo ''Bowling Balls'' or a [[ConcertFilm Concert DVD]] with the Music Video for "Real Underground Baby" included as a bonus feature.
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* BonusMaterial: Two DVDs One of two DVD's are randomly packaged with different copies of the album, giving buyers either a copy of their longform MusicVideo ''Bowling Balls'' or a [[ConcertFilm Concert DVD]] with the Music Video for "Real Underground Baby" included as a bonus feature.
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!! Track listing
# "Intro"
# "Walk into the Darkness"
# "Suicide Hotline"
# "C.P.K.'s"
# "Truly Alone"
# "Everyday I Die"
# "The Night of the 44"
# "The Witch"
# "Bowling Balls"
# "24"
# "Burning Up"
# "Sedatives"
# "In My Room"
# "Basehead Attack"
# "Angels Falling"
# "Manic Depressive"
# "Real Underground Baby"
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# "Intro"
# "Walk into the Darkness"
# "Suicide Hotline"
# "C.P.K.'s"
# "Truly Alone"
# "Everyday I Die"
# "The Night of the 44"
# "The Witch"
# "Bowling Balls"
# "24"
# "Burning Up"
# "Sedatives"
# "In My Room"
# "Basehead Attack"
# "Angels Falling"
# "Manic Depressive"
# "Real Underground Baby"
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* ArcNumber: Like [[TheShangriLa the previous album]], this album only has 17 tracks, which is the number of copies that ICP's first album sold upon initial release.
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The album completes[[spoiler:the first deck of]] ICP's Joker's Cards ConceptAlbum saga. Much like their previous album, every song's lyrics are about death. However, with the emphasis on {{Hell}} rather than [[TheShangriLa Shangri-La]], the songs are predominately [[MurderBallad Murder Ballads]]. The lyrics emphasize the darker and more evil side of {{Horrorcore}}, in contrast to the lighter PopRap approach taken in the lyrics of the ''Shangri-La'' album. Additionally, [[NewSoundAlbum the album's style is minimalist Hip-Hop, in contrast to the]] RapRock [[NewSoundAlbum sound of Shangri-La]]. It also features zero SpecialGuest appearances, with Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope serving as the only rappers delivering verses on the entire album, due to the gravity of the messaging they are trying to deliver. As a result, ''Hell's Pit'' is one often one of ICP's best-reviewed releases.
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The album completes[[spoiler:the completes[[note]]the first deck of]] of[[/note]] ICP's Joker's Cards ConceptAlbum saga. Much like their previous album, every song's lyrics are about death. However, with the emphasis on {{Hell}} rather than [[TheShangriLa Shangri-La]], the songs are predominately [[MurderBallad Murder Ballads]]. The lyrics emphasize the darker and more evil side of {{Horrorcore}}, in contrast to the lighter PopRap approach taken in the lyrics of the ''Shangri-La'' album. Additionally, [[NewSoundAlbum the album's style is minimalist Hip-Hop, in contrast to the]] RapRock [[NewSoundAlbum sound of Shangri-La]]. It also features zero SpecialGuest appearances, with Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope serving as the only rappers delivering verses on the entire album, due to the gravity of the messaging they are trying to deliver. As a result, ''Hell's Pit'' is one often one of ICP's best-reviewed releases.
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[[caption-width-right:321: Welcome to Hell. Why did you choose this?]]
''Hell's Pit'' is a 2004 album by the HipHop duo Music/InsaneClownPosse and the DarkerAndEdgier follow-up to 2002's ''Music/TheWraithShangriLa''. It is their second album to not use the word "UsefulNotes/{{Juggalo}}", because, in Violent J's words, "I don't want to see one motherfuckin' Juggalo in Hell's Pit."
The album completes[[spoiler:the first deck of]] ICP's Joker's Cards ConceptAlbum saga. Much like their previous album, every song's lyrics are about death. However, with the emphasis on {{Hell}} rather than [[TheShangriLa Shangri-La]], the songs are predominately [[MurderBallad Murder Ballads]]. The lyrics emphasize the darker and more evil side of {{Horrorcore}}, in contrast to the lighter PopRap approach taken in the lyrics of the ''Shangri-La'' album. Additionally, [[NewSoundAlbum the album's style is minimalist Hip-Hop, in contrast to the]] RapRock [[NewSoundAlbum sound of Shangri-La]]. It also features zero SpecialGuest appearances, with Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope serving as the only rappers delivering verses on the entire album, due to the gravity of the messaging they are trying to deliver. As a result, ''Hell's Pit'' is one often one of ICP's best-reviewed releases.
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!! Walk into the Dark Tropes:
* BonusMaterial: Two DVDs are randomly packaged with the album, giving buyers either a copy of their longform MusicVideo ''Bowling Balls'' or a [[ConcertFilm Concert DVD]] with the Music Video for "Real Underground Baby" included as a bonus feature.
* ConceptVideo: ICP have often said they were influenced by Music/MichaelJackson, and on this album's track "Bowling Balls", they decided to follow Michael's influence into visual medium by making the music video a short HorrorComedy SlasherMovie in which Shaggy 2 Dope plays a mentally impaired hunchback who likes to decapitate people with his brother Violent J at their [[Creator/PsychopathicRecords Hatcehtman]]-themed Bed and Breakfast.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Hell's Pit'' is often better reviewed than other releases in ICP's catalog due to the much darker and mostly serious tone, with very little of the BlackComedy that defined most of ICP's previous recordings, with ICP aiming for straight up ''{{Horror}}'' instead of the Horror Comedy they're known for.
* DistinctDoubleAlbum: With ''Music/TheWraithShangriLa'', which was about Heaven, in contrast to this album, which is about Hell. The two albums were released separately with similar cover art. The slipcover of ''Hell's Pit'' has a different illustration depicting J and Shaggy in Hell in a ComicBook art style.
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: The song "Every Day I Die" dedcribes waking up every day in Hell, murdering people horrifically, getting horrifically murdered yourself, and then waking up to do more of the same. Every day is different, but it doesn't get any less horrible.
* GoodWitchVersusBadWitch: The ''Hell's Pit'' cover depicts [[GoodWitchVersusBadWitch the Good Wraith]] trying to pull you out of Hell into Shangri-La, while the ''Shangri-La'' album depicts thy [[GoodWitchVersusBadWitch Bad]] [[TheGrimReaper Wraith]] [[EvilAllAlong trying to pull you into Hell]].
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Violent J is about to commit suicide at the end of "Suicide Hotline", but he is interrupted by a phone call from his girlfriend to make a date with him, and he decides that life is worth living after all.
* ILoveTheDead: On "Bowling Balls", Violent J likes to collect human heads. He told his therapist about it and he was okay with it, he just wanted a couple of heads for himself. Oh and in case you're thinking that J had nothing to do with how the people the heads belonged to died, that he might just be picking them up from morgues or something, he then reveals that his therapist's head is on one of his shelves, meaning [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness their entire conversation was all in his head]].
* NewSoundAlbum: Their previous album was guitar-heavy RapRock with PopRap lyrical themes, while ''Hells Pit'' is predominantly minimalist [[PsychoStrings Horror Synth]]-driven HipHop, the instrumentation mostly consisting of programmed beats and synthesizer parts with minimal {{Sampling}}, with "Attack of the Baseheads" being one of the only tracks on the album to feature electric guitar, giving the album a more unnerving quality compared to the fun energy of the ''Shangri-La'' album. It also almost entirely lacks the [[ComedyMusic Comedy]] of their previous recordings.
* NightmareFuel: The intro is an ''auditory trip into Hell''.
** The very first song on the album "Walk Into The Darkness". Violent J's verse describes him decapitating a mule and shooting up a school with the mule head on his head, and Shaggy's verse has him shooting up a funeral and burning down the place, and both of these events are happening in the name of [[{{Satan}} The Witch]].
** "Everyday I Die": J and Shaggy wake up each day, try to make it through the darkness of Hell, cannot die, but still feel pain. It's particularly worse when Shaggy is basically being eaten alive by demons.* "The Witch", a full description of the devil's (successful) lies and manipulations of J and Shaggy.
** The shock therapy sounds in "Sedatives"
** "In My Room" with lots of {{Yandere}} goodness. The singer is involved with a girl and they hang out a lot [[TitleDrop in his room]]. One night, he murders one of his mother's cats because it [[DisproportionateRetribution scared her]]. It certainly doesn't help that you actually hear a cat yowling during the verse. The girl is obviously freaked out by his behavior and runs away. Then she tells him that she was seen by a neighbor's kid and he proceeds to brutally murder the kid and his parents. It doesn't help that the song leaves it ambiguous as to what the girl actually is: a ghost? A demon? [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness A hallucination?]] And on top of all of that, the girl never comes back, forcing him to realize he's just killed those people for ''nothing''.
** "Basehead Attack" describes zombie baseheads coming out of the grave begging for change and J and Shaggy attacking seemingly-undying crack addicts.
* {{Sampling}}: A notable example occurs on "Bowling Balls", if only for how one reviewer completely misidentified the sample. The song samples Music/PublicEnemy's instrumental "Security of the First World", which in turn samples "Funky Drummer" by Music/JamesBrown. However, the ''Allmusic'' review incorrectly identifies the song as being sampled from Music/{{Madonna}}'s "Justify My Love", on which producer Music/LennyKravitz utilized an uncredited sample from the Public Enemy instrumental.
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[[caption-width-right:321: Welcome to Hell. Why did you choose this?]]
''Hell's Pit'' is a 2004 album by the HipHop duo Music/InsaneClownPosse and the DarkerAndEdgier follow-up to 2002's ''Music/TheWraithShangriLa''. It is their second album to not use the word "UsefulNotes/{{Juggalo}}", because, in Violent J's words, "I don't want to see one motherfuckin' Juggalo in Hell's Pit."
The album completes[[spoiler:the first deck of]] ICP's Joker's Cards ConceptAlbum saga. Much like their previous album, every song's lyrics are about death. However, with the emphasis on {{Hell}} rather than [[TheShangriLa Shangri-La]], the songs are predominately [[MurderBallad Murder Ballads]]. The lyrics emphasize the darker and more evil side of {{Horrorcore}}, in contrast to the lighter PopRap approach taken in the lyrics of the ''Shangri-La'' album. Additionally, [[NewSoundAlbum the album's style is minimalist Hip-Hop, in contrast to the]] RapRock [[NewSoundAlbum sound of Shangri-La]]. It also features zero SpecialGuest appearances, with Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope serving as the only rappers delivering verses on the entire album, due to the gravity of the messaging they are trying to deliver. As a result, ''Hell's Pit'' is one often one of ICP's best-reviewed releases.
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!! Walk into the Dark Tropes:
* BonusMaterial: Two DVDs are randomly packaged with the album, giving buyers either a copy of their longform MusicVideo ''Bowling Balls'' or a [[ConcertFilm Concert DVD]] with the Music Video for "Real Underground Baby" included as a bonus feature.
* ConceptVideo: ICP have often said they were influenced by Music/MichaelJackson, and on this album's track "Bowling Balls", they decided to follow Michael's influence into visual medium by making the music video a short HorrorComedy SlasherMovie in which Shaggy 2 Dope plays a mentally impaired hunchback who likes to decapitate people with his brother Violent J at their [[Creator/PsychopathicRecords Hatcehtman]]-themed Bed and Breakfast.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Hell's Pit'' is often better reviewed than other releases in ICP's catalog due to the much darker and mostly serious tone, with very little of the BlackComedy that defined most of ICP's previous recordings, with ICP aiming for straight up ''{{Horror}}'' instead of the Horror Comedy they're known for.
* DistinctDoubleAlbum: With ''Music/TheWraithShangriLa'', which was about Heaven, in contrast to this album, which is about Hell. The two albums were released separately with similar cover art. The slipcover of ''Hell's Pit'' has a different illustration depicting J and Shaggy in Hell in a ComicBook art style.
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: The song "Every Day I Die" dedcribes waking up every day in Hell, murdering people horrifically, getting horrifically murdered yourself, and then waking up to do more of the same. Every day is different, but it doesn't get any less horrible.
* GoodWitchVersusBadWitch: The ''Hell's Pit'' cover depicts [[GoodWitchVersusBadWitch the Good Wraith]] trying to pull you out of Hell into Shangri-La, while the ''Shangri-La'' album depicts thy [[GoodWitchVersusBadWitch Bad]] [[TheGrimReaper Wraith]] [[EvilAllAlong trying to pull you into Hell]].
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Violent J is about to commit suicide at the end of "Suicide Hotline", but he is interrupted by a phone call from his girlfriend to make a date with him, and he decides that life is worth living after all.
* ILoveTheDead: On "Bowling Balls", Violent J likes to collect human heads. He told his therapist about it and he was okay with it, he just wanted a couple of heads for himself. Oh and in case you're thinking that J had nothing to do with how the people the heads belonged to died, that he might just be picking them up from morgues or something, he then reveals that his therapist's head is on one of his shelves, meaning [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness their entire conversation was all in his head]].
* NewSoundAlbum: Their previous album was guitar-heavy RapRock with PopRap lyrical themes, while ''Hells Pit'' is predominantly minimalist [[PsychoStrings Horror Synth]]-driven HipHop, the instrumentation mostly consisting of programmed beats and synthesizer parts with minimal {{Sampling}}, with "Attack of the Baseheads" being one of the only tracks on the album to feature electric guitar, giving the album a more unnerving quality compared to the fun energy of the ''Shangri-La'' album. It also almost entirely lacks the [[ComedyMusic Comedy]] of their previous recordings.
* NightmareFuel: The intro is an ''auditory trip into Hell''.
** The very first song on the album "Walk Into The Darkness". Violent J's verse describes him decapitating a mule and shooting up a school with the mule head on his head, and Shaggy's verse has him shooting up a funeral and burning down the place, and both of these events are happening in the name of [[{{Satan}} The Witch]].
** "Everyday I Die": J and Shaggy wake up each day, try to make it through the darkness of Hell, cannot die, but still feel pain. It's particularly worse when Shaggy is basically being eaten alive by demons.* "The Witch", a full description of the devil's (successful) lies and manipulations of J and Shaggy.
** The shock therapy sounds in "Sedatives"
** "In My Room" with lots of {{Yandere}} goodness. The singer is involved with a girl and they hang out a lot [[TitleDrop in his room]]. One night, he murders one of his mother's cats because it [[DisproportionateRetribution scared her]]. It certainly doesn't help that you actually hear a cat yowling during the verse. The girl is obviously freaked out by his behavior and runs away. Then she tells him that she was seen by a neighbor's kid and he proceeds to brutally murder the kid and his parents. It doesn't help that the song leaves it ambiguous as to what the girl actually is: a ghost? A demon? [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness A hallucination?]] And on top of all of that, the girl never comes back, forcing him to realize he's just killed those people for ''nothing''.
** "Basehead Attack" describes zombie baseheads coming out of the grave begging for change and J and Shaggy attacking seemingly-undying crack addicts.
* {{Sampling}}: A notable example occurs on "Bowling Balls", if only for how one reviewer completely misidentified the sample. The song samples Music/PublicEnemy's instrumental "Security of the First World", which in turn samples "Funky Drummer" by Music/JamesBrown. However, the ''Allmusic'' review incorrectly identifies the song as being sampled from Music/{{Madonna}}'s "Justify My Love", on which producer Music/LennyKravitz utilized an uncredited sample from the Public Enemy instrumental.
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