The Yum Yum character is a Man-Eating Plant that grows in the fields of the Echo Side, among the decomposing bodies of undying sinners, exuding an intoxicating smell that entices, but causes Rapid Aging in those that fall under her spell. Her roots spread across space and time, and into the mortal realm, where she feeds on those that abuse their power and are insatiably greedy.
The album's story was supplemented by four separately released extended plays that constitute a series ICP refer to as The Seeds of Yum Yum: Yum Yum's Lure, which was released before Yum Yum Bedlam, Wicked Vic the Weed and Pug Ugly the Stink Bud, which were released in 2022, and Woh the Weeping Weirdo, released in 2023.
Track listing:
- "Intro" (featuring Laney Chantel)
- "Here Comes the Carnival"
- "Wretched"
- "Clown Drippin'"
- "Gangsta Code"
- "Queens"
- "Panic Attack!!!"
- "Fuck Regret"
- "Insomnia"
- "Heart & Soul" (featuring Vinnie Dombroski and Jason Hartless)
- "The Drunk & the Addict"
- "Don't Touch That Flower"
- "The Jokstas"note
- "Bitch I'm Fine"
- "Carnival of Lights"
- "Ain't No Time" (featuring Roadside Ghost)
- "Something to See"
Tropes demonstrated by Yum Yum Bedlam:
- Almost Famous Name: Shaggytheairhead, who produces several tracks on the album, is not Shaggy 2 Dope, one of the members of ICP, but a completely different man named Shaggy.
- Call-Back: "The Jokstas" includes the lyric "we're not sorry if we tricked you".
- Drugs Are Bad: "The Drunk And The Addict" from Yum Yum Bedlam is about J and 2 Dope's drug and drinking problems respectively and them being comedically direct about it.
- Easter Egg: After "Panic Attack" concludes, we hear a sample of Richard Cheese's Lounge Lizard cover of ICP's song "Fuck the World", from Cheese's 2020 album Numbers of the Beast. It doubles as an allusion to the fact that The Amazing Jeckel Brothers and Yum Yum Bedlam are both the fifth Joker's Cards of each respective deck.
- Female Empowerment Song: "Queens" is about how you should respect your girlfriend/wife, because if you diss her and treat her badly, she'll leave you and your entire life will go to shit, represented by all of the flowers she planted in the backyard dying upon her departure.
- Innocent Plant Children: The little flowers below the Yum Yum Flower act angry/sad normally, but put a grin on their faces when she reveals her true colors.
- Man-Eating Plant: The Yum Yum Flower becomes this if the individual who meets her succumbed to the dark desires in their life.
- Neglected Garden: If the individual who meets the Yum Yum Flower was strong of heart and avoided sick perversions, she will appear as a wilted flower whose petals have fallen off.
- Real Life Writes the Plot: "Panic Attack" was inspired by Violent J's real life panic attacks in 1997 touring in support of The Great Milenko, which resulted in him freezing up on stage as Shaggy continued to perform to make up for J's stillness, and then after the show, calling up his brother Jumpsteady to tell him that he was quitting the tour to go home, and then heading back to his hotel room and cutting off all of his dreadlocks with a pair of scissors. Then, when he went to sleep, he awoke in another panic attack, which he described as waking up feeling like the devil was sitting on his chest.
- Really 700 Years Old: The narrator of "Wretched" says he was "Born six hundred sixty-six AD"
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Sampled Up: Yes, ICP really did jack the instrumental from Boondox's "Movin' On", rapped new verses over it, and renamed it "Gangsta Code"."That’s right. Had to take my beat back. My shit." -
Schedule Slip: The third Yum Yum Seed EP album, Woh, was planned to release on October 31st, 2022. Such a thing didn't happen, with the Bloody Sunday single releasing instead. Woh was planned to release again sometime in December, but it became clear that Woh was a late bloomer and it finally released in July, 2023. - Special Guest: "Heart & Soul" features Michigan Rock musicians Vinnie Dombroski from the band Sponge, and Jason Hartless, best known for being the drummer for Ted Nugent.
- Updated Re Release: In 2023, ICP released a 4-CD box set to the Gathering of the Juggalos called Yum Yum Total Bedlam, adding the extended plays Wicked Vic the Weed, Pug Ugly the Stink Bud and Woh the Weeping Weirdo as bonus discs. The box curiously did not include Yum Yum Lure.
- What Could Have Been: "Ding Ding Doll" was released as a single and originally intended to be on this album, but ultimately it ended up being on the Yum Yum Lure EP instead.
