Line #48 Music/CarnivalOfCarnage


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:You can't fuck with the Juggla]]
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4	''Carnival of Carnage'' is Music/InsaneClownPosse's 1992 debut album and the first Joker's Card. It marked the change from the GangstaRap Inner City Posse to the Wicked Clowns. The concept is that if nothing is done to repair the inner cities, the violence of the ghettos will be visited on suburbia. The album sold a mere 17 copies on its day of release, which led to the band turning the number into a RunningGag.
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6	It is one of only two Joker's Cards to not feature the word ''{{UsefulNotes/Juggalo}}'' in the lyrics, the other being ''Music/HellsPit'', for completely different reasons. It isn't on ''Carnival Of Carnage'' because ICP didn't have enough of an audience yet to make it worth the effort to name them, and it's isn't on ''Hell's Pit'' because, as Violent J said on the "Seminar" [=DVD=] included in some editions of ''Music/TheWraithShangriLa'', "I don't want to see any Juggalos in Hell's Pit.''
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8	!! Tracklist
9	# Intro
10	# Carnival Of Carnage
11	# The Juggla
12	# First Day Out
13	# Red Neck Hoe
14	# Wizard Of The Hood
15	# Guts On The Ceiling
16	# Is That You?
17	# Night of the Axe
18	# Psychopathic
19	# Blackin' Your Eyes
20	# Never Had It Made
21	# Your Rebel Flag
22	# Ghetto Freak Show
23	# Taste
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25	!!"Tropes of Carnage":
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27	* TheCameo: John Kickjazz, Music/{{Jumpsteady}}, Nate The Mack, Capitol E and Esham all appear on "Taste."
28	* CircusOfFear[=/=]TheFreakshow: It's right there in the album title and in the title of "Ghetto Freak Show."
29	* ClusterFBomb: All over the record.
30	* CreatorProvincialism: "Wizard of the Hood":
31	-->"'Cause there ain't no place like UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}."
32	* DeepSouth: "Red Neck Hoe," "Your Rebel Flag"
33	* DonutMessWithACop:
34	** From "Night of the Axe"
35	-->"I'll get a job at the Doughnut Shop\
36	Just to poison a cop"
37	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Dark Carnival mythology doesn't appear on this album.
38	* {{Foreshadowing}}: "The Juggla" mentions "The Night of the .44," which would be a song title on ''Music/HellsPit'' ''12 years later''.
39	* ImAHumanitarian: From "The Juggla":
40	-->"The doctor told me I'm a psycho\
41	So I ate his face like I don't know"
42	* JustGotOutOfJail: The subject of "First Day Out"
43	* KickMePrank: From "The Juggla":
44	-->"I'm that nerd in the back of the class\
45	Who went psycho and killed your ass\
46	I cut and stab and hack\
47	With a 'Kick Me' sign on my back, Jack"
48	* MonsterClown: They weren't the Inner City Posse anymore.
49	* OffToSeeTheWizard: "Wizard of the Hood", with Shaggy 2 Dope as The Scarecrow, Shaggy's brother John [=Kickjazz=] as The Tin Man and Kid Villain as The Cowardly Lion. They shoot the Wizard and steal his car. J wakes up from drinking at a party.
50	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: The spoken intro to "Psychopathic":
51	-->"The ghettos of America are breeding grounds for the criminal minded\
52	As for years they have killed each other off\
53	And America has enjoyed its creation\
54	But now these ghetto-minded criminals have crossed the line into your neighborhood\
55	And will soon give you a taste of the hell that they have lived for so long\
56	So pops, this time it's your son that gets shot\
57	Deal with your own creation"
58	* PoliticalRap[=/=]ProtestSong:
59	** "Taste" rips then-[[UsefulNotes/{{Michigan}} Michigan]] Governor John Engler for not doing enough to help the inner cities.
60	* RecordProducer: Mike E. Clark, Violent J, Esham and Chuck Miller.
61	* RetroactiveRecognition: Yes, that was ''the'' Music/KidRock appearing on "Is That You?" -- 6 years before he [[Music/DevilWithoutACause went 7x platinum]].
62	* ReturningWarVet: Jumpsteady served in UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar and, in his verse in "Taste," he raps that he'd be willing to "pay a little extra to the gallon" if it meant that the government would pay more attention to the violence of the inner cities instead of sending troops overseas.
63	* RougeAnglesOfSatin: "Blackin' Your Eyes"
64	* {{Sampling}}:
65	** "The Juggla" samples Music/{{Prince}}'s "Kiss".
66	** "Red Neck Hoe" samples War's "City, Country, City".
67	** "Wizard of the Hood" samples [[Film/TheWizardOfOz "We're Off To See The Wizard," "Over The Rainbow" and "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead"]].
68	** "Psychopathic" samples Creator/JohnCarpenter's "Franchise/{{Halloween}} Theme" and Zapp's "More Bounce to the Ounce".
69	** "Blackin' Your Eyes" samples Color Me Badd's "I Wanna Sex You Up".
70	** "Never Had It Made" samples Music/BlackSabbath's "The Wizard," Music/BeastieBoys' "Pass The Mic" and Johnny Hammond's "Big Sur Suite".
71	** "Ghetto Freak Show" samples Music/{{Esham}}'s "I'd Rather Be Dead".
72	** "Taste" samples Esham's "Word After Word" and "I Believe In Miracles" by The Jackson Sisters.
73	* ShoutOut:
74	** "Never Had It Made" mentions an "[[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial ET]] shirt" and the film ''Pentitentiary''.
75	** "Psychopathic" includes the line, "Stubble on my chin, I got hair like [[Franchise/StarWars Chewbacca]]".
76	* YourHeadAsplode: "Guts On The Ceiling"
77	-->"Oh, you'll never guess what's up\
78	My muckin' head blew up"
79	* YourMom: When the judge in "Never Had It Made" asks Violent J if he has anything to say before he is sentenced, he says, "Yeah...your mudda".
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