History Music / TheMarvelousMissingLink

''The Marvelous Missing Link'' is a DistinctDoubleAlbum by the HipHop act Music/InsaneClownPosse released in 2015 as two separately released albums serving as the third Joker's Card of the second deck of the Dark Carnival ConceptAlbum saga: ''Lost'', an album of dark, serious {{Horrorcore}} songs, and ''Found'', an album of mostly light, often comedic PopRap and [[ProgressiveRock Progressive Pop]] songs. The concept of the double album is that mankind is lost without faith, and must "find your missing link", which is spelled out in the intro to ''Lost'' as meaning faith in a higher power -- but any faith at all, not any particular religion. The albums' lyricism showed ICP GrowingTheBeard as songwriters, as Violent J later told comedian Harland Williams that they had been incorrectly perceived as promoting Christianity when they released ''Music/TheWraithShangriLa'', due to J's inexperience as a songwriter in 2002. So on ''The Marvelous Missing Link'', ICP set out to clarify that they don't think any specific religion is a path to God/Heaven, and that they want their fans to just have faith in a higher power, not to follow a specific religion, as neither member of ICP are Christians, although both believe in God.

* GenreMashup: ''Found'' was described by one reviewer as a Progressive Pop Rap album.

* LighterAndSofter: ''Found'' is much lighter than the previous album, consisting of predominantly comedic PopRap songs.

''The Marvelous Missing Link'' is a DistinctDoubleAlbum by the HipHop act Music/InsaneClownPosse released in 2015 as two separately packaged albums serving as the third Joker's Card of the second deck of the Dark Carnival ConceptAlbum saga: ''Lost'', an album of dark, serious {{Horrorcore}} songs, and ''Found'', an album of mostly light, often comedic PopRap and [[ProgressiveRock Progressive Pop]] songs. The concept of the double album is that mankind is lost without faith, and must "find your missing link", which is spelled out in the intro to ''Lost'' as meaning faith in a higher power -- but any faith at all, not any particular religion. The albums' lyricism showed ICP GrowingTheBeard as songwriters, as Violent J later told comedian Harland Williams that they had been incorrectly perceived as promoting Christianity when they released ''Music/TheWraithShangriLa'', due to J's inexperience as a songwriter in 2002. So on ''The Marvelous Missing Link'', ICP set out to clarify that they don't think any specific religion is a path to God/Heaven, and that they want their fans to just have faith in a higher power, not to follow a specific religion, as neither member of ICP are Christians, although both believe in God.

* HarsherInHindsight: One of the ways the narrator in "You Should Know" is presented as a collosal {{Jerkass}} is that he is unapologetic about cheating on his fiancee. At the time, Violent J was married to [[Series/ICPTheater Sugar Slam]], who is the mother of his children, "JJ" and Ruby. Later, their marriage was split up when Violent J cheated on her with rapper Blahzay Roze, although they publicly stated that they separated on good terms. Violent J and Blahzay publicly started their relationship in 2016 as Creator/PsychopathicRecords signed her and released her extended play, ''Broken'', but they broke up later the same year, and Psychopathic ended up releasing her from her contract for supposedly being unmarketable, although their break-up couldn't possibly have helped matters. According to Sugar Slam, while her and J's children still love their dad, they ''hated'' Blahzay Roze.
* HilariousInHindsight: Many fans consider "Dreams of Grandeur" this. The song is about J picking up a drug addicted prostitute off the streets and declaring his intention to save her, until he comes to his senses and realizes he's made a mistake and kicks her to the curb after having sex with her rather than becoming "[[Music/{{E40}} Captain Save-A-Ho]]". The reason why fans find this song Hilarious in Hindsight is because of Violent J's relationship with Blahzay Roze. Now, obviously Blahzay isn't a prostitute and she had legitimate rap skills, which she demonstrated on her only Psychopathic release (and only release to date). Furthermore, she publicly stated that despite fans speculating that Violent J only signed her because she had sex with him, that she did not have sex with him before they signed her, and Violent J also said that he signed her based solely on her rapping skills and did not have sex with her before signing her. However, this fueled speculation that Violent J only signed her so she would have sex with him, despite her obvious skills as a rapper. Nonetheless, the extended play and her live performances received pretty divided responses from UsefulNotes/{{Juggalo}}s, who believed that J was being a "Captain Save-A-Ho" in real life, which made "Dreams of Grandeur" funnier in hindsight, even if the speculation about Blahzay Roze was completely false.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Found'' has been described as a [[ProgressiveRock Progressive Pop]] album.

* DistinctDoubleAlbum: ''Lost'', the first part of the double album, has a black cover, and the Missing Link's face is locked up in a mask. ''Found'', the second part of the double album, has a white cover, and the Missing Link's face is unmasked.

''The Marvelous Missing Link'' is a DistinctDoubleAlbum by the HipHop act Music/InsaneClownPosse released in 2015 as two separately packaged albums: ''Lost'', an album of dark, serious {{Horrorcore}} songs, and ''Found'', an album of mostly light, often comedic PopRap and [[ProgressiveRock Progressive Pop]] songs. The concept of the double album is that mankind is lost without faith, and must "find your missing link", which is spelled out in the intro to ''Lost'' as meaning faith in a higher power -- but any faith at all, not any particular religion. The albums' lyricism showed ICP GrowingTheBeard as songwriters, as Violent J later told comedian Harland Williams that they had been incorrectly perceived as promoting Christianity when they released ''Music/TheWraithShangriLa'', due to J's inexperience as a songwriter in 2002. So on ''The Marvelous Missing Link'', ICP set out to clarify that they don't think any specific religion is a path to God/Heaven, and that they want their fans to just have faith in a higher power, not to follow a specific religion, as neither member of ICP are Christians, although both believe in God.

ICP had decided to work with Music/TechN9ne's producer Michael "Seven" Summers on the third Joker's Card of the second deck of the Dark Carnival ConceptAlbum saga. Additionally, some tracks were produced by Music/AxeMurderBoyz, as AMB member Young Wicked was an impressive Hip-Hop producer, and Mike Puwal, formerly of Music/ZugIzland, who had previously worked with ICP on ''The Wraith: Shangri-La'' and ''Music/HellsPit'', but left Creator/PsychopathicRecords after Clark returned.

''The Marvelous Missing Link'' is a DistinctDoubleAlbum by the HipHop act Music/InsaneClownPosse released in 2015 as two separately packaged albums: ''Lost'', an album of dark, serious {{Horrorcore}} songs, and ''Found'', an album of mostly light, often comedic PopRap and [[ProgressiveRock Progressive Pop]] songs. The concept of the double album is that mankind is lost without faith, and must "find your missing link", which is spelled out in the intro to ''Lost'' as meaning faith in a higher power -- but any faith at all, not any particular religion. The album's lyricism showed ICP GrowingTheBeard as songwriters, as Violent J later told comedian Harland Williams that they had been incorrectly perceived as promoting Christianity when they released ''Music/TheWraithShangriLa'', due to J's inexperience as a songwriter in 2002. So on ''The Marvelous Missing Link'', ICP set out to clarify that they don't think any specific religion is a path to God/Heaven, and that they want their fans to just have faith in a higher power, not to follow a specific religion, as neither member of ICP are Christians, although both believe in God.

* HilariousInHindsight: Many fans consider "Dreams of Grandeur" this. The song is about J picking up a drug addicted prostitute off the streets and declaring his intention to save her, until he comes to his senses and realizes he's made a mistake and kicks her to the curb after having sex with her rather than becoming "[[Film/IThinkILoveMyWife Captain Save-A-Ho]]". The reason why fans find this song Hilarious in Hindsight is because of Violent J's relationship with Blahzay Roze. Now, obviously Blahzay isn't a prostitute and she had legitimate rap skills, which she demonstrated on her only Psychopathic release (and only release to date). Furthermore, she publicly stated that despite fans speculating that Violent J only signed her because she had sex with him, that she did not have sex with him before they signed her, and Violent J also said that he signed her based solely on her rapping skills and did not have sex with her before signing her. However, this fueled speculation that Violent J only signed her so she would have sex with him, despite her obvious skills as a rapper. Nonetheless, the extended play and her live performances received pretty divided responses from UsefulNotes/{{Juggalo}}s, who believed that J was being a "Captain Save-A-Ho" in real life, which made "Dreams of Grandeur" funnier in hindsight, even if the speculation about Blahzay Roze was completely false.

For this album, ICP once again parted ways with longtime producer Mike E. Clark, who previously had quit working with ICP before the development of ''Music/TheWraithShangriLa'' due to a disagreement with ICP over the artistic direction of the Sixth Joker's Card of the first deck. Here, Clark and ICP departed on better terms, as Clark would mostly go into retirement. Additionally, ICP were no longer as reliant on Clark's beat-making skills as they were in The90s, as Violent J had learned how to make beats himself, and ICP had been more reliant on live instrumentation rather than {{Sampling}} and solely programmed beats, due to the increasing costs of clearing samples making sampledelia less common in contemporary Hip-Hop.

* HilariousInHindsight: Many fans consider "Dreams of Grandeur" this. The song is about J picking up a drug addicted prostitute off the streets and declaring his intention to save her, until he comes to his senses and realizes he's made a mistake and kicks her to the curb after having sex with her rather than becoming "[[Film/IThinkILoveMyWife Captain Save-A-Ho]]". The reason why fans find this song Hilarious in Hindsight is because of Violent J's relationship with Blahzay Roze. Now, obviously Blahzay isn't a prostitute and she had legitimate rap skills, which she demonstrated on her only Psychopathic release (and only release to date). Furthermore, she publicly stated that despite fans speculating that Violent J only signed her because she had sex with him, Blahzay did not have sex with him before they signed her, and Violent J also said that he signed her based solely on her rapping skills and did not have sex with her before signing her. However, this fueled speculation that Violent J only signed her so she would have sex with him, despite her obvious skills as a rapper. Nonetheless, the extended play and her live performances received pretty divided responses from UsefulNotes/{{Juggalo}}s, who believed that J was being a "Captain Save-A-Ho" in real life, which made "Dreams of Grandeur" funnier in hindsight, even if the speculation about Blahzay Roze was completely false.

''The Marvelous Missing Link'' is a DistinctDoubleAlbum by the HipHop act Music/InsaneClownPosse released in 2015 as two separately packaged albums: ''Lost'', an album of dark, serious {{Horrorcore}} songs, and ''Found'', an album of mostly light, often comedic PopRap and [[ProgressiveRock Progressive Pop]] songs. The concept of the double album is that mankind is lost without faith, and must "find your missing link", which is spelled out in the intro to ''Lost'' as meaning faith in a higher power -- but any faith at all, not any particular religion. The album's lyricism showed ICP GrowingTheBeard as songwriters, as Violent J later told comedian Harland Williams that they had been incorrectly perceived as promoting Christianity when they released ''Music/TheWraithShangriLa'', due to J's inexperience as a songwriter in 2002. So on ''The Marvelous Missing Link'', ICP set out to clarify that they don't think any specific religion is a path to God/Heaven, and that they want their fans to just have faith in a higher power, not to follow a specific religion, as neither member of ICP is a Christian, although both believe in God.