The Gathering of the Juggalos 2011

[zenidogx]

I would go the Gathering for some of that wrestling. And this year Brian Posehn was there? Nice. Although, I fear what a Gathering smells like.

[zenidogx]

thebrianposehn
We did it. @HarlandWilliams and I are alive and unraped. Juggalos were nothing but cool. 3am show was high as fuck. Whoop whoop indeed.

[BigBryan]

I'm supposed to have DJ True Justice on my podcast show tomorrow. I know him from working with some other bay area artists, but he went out to the Gathering as the tour/live DJ for Paris. I'm pretty much in agreement with everything that's been said about ICP/Juggalos, but im very interested in hearing about his experience with the festival and juggalos.

[stinkbutt]

Be sure to ask and report back.

[WhyTheLongFace]

So Charlie Sheen was the one they decided to throw shit at

[Gribbz]

I want to see Xzibit at Coachella.

[swhite423]

wow i just read about this fest. It sounds unreal in the worst way possible.

[Neighborhood Creep]

I want to see Xzibit at Coachella.

Same. I love every album he's put out.

[BigBryan]

Be sure to ask and report back.

True Justice had nothing but positive things to say about his experience at the Gathering. You can listen to him on my podcast here http://www.blogtalkradio.com/spentra...monday-warm-up

He's not a Juggalo nor does he listen to ICP, but he said everyone treated them very well out there and it was a hell of a party.

[Boourns]

[WhyTheLongFace]

"I want to get a skinny bitch....make her fat......so we can lose weight together"

at pregnant girl smoking

I wish Coachella attendees were family

When you say "and shit" anything said before means nothing

"I want to be a doctor and shit"
"I'm a manager and shit"
"I'm Pro Choice and shit"

"I had an old man tell me there's nothing good in the world. I almost believed him until I came here. And saw allllll the titties. Alllllll the weeeed. Allllll the fast food"

"It says Titties 4 a dollar. My boyfriend wrote it"

[Mr. Porter]

"Fuckin' grub. Fuckin' steak and chicken. Fuckin' mashed potatoes. Fuckin' ribs and shit."

[greghead]

I want to go to this one year just to see all the trailer-park tomfoolery first-hand.

And to get fucked up and be, like, accepted for who I am and shit.

[nathanfairchild]

so much meth mouth

[phonographer]

I had to check here after Danny of Menomena tweeted about it.

Crazy shit.

[stuporfly]

Juggalos classified as a dangerous gang by the FBI

The FBI considers the fans of shticky rap group Insane Clown Posse to represent a threat on par with the Crips, Bloods, and Aryan Brotherhood, according to its annual report on gang activity.

You might think Insane Clown Posse’s people — known as the Juggalos — are just a group of face-painting teenagers who wonder how magnets work. Not so, says the FBI’s 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment. To the feds, Juggalos are a “loosely-organized hybrid gang” that are “forming more organized subsets and engaging in more gang-like criminal activity.”

Consult page 22 of the FBI’s brand-new annual report on gang activity nationwide. (.PDF) Listed in the same breath as street gangs with ties to murderous Mexican drug cartels is the Juggalo threat.

“Although recognized as a gang in only four states,” reports the FBI’s National Gang Intelligence Center,” many Juggalos subsets exhibit gang-like behavior and engage in criminal activity and violence.” It takes a footnote to disclose the connection to the Insane Clown Posse. Which would make rappers Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope the Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff or Tookie Williams of their nefarious Juggalo army.

Other gangs cited in the report, like the Haitian Boys Posse or the Custer Street Gang, are linked to homicides, gun running, and drug trafficking. Juggalo gang activity cited by the FBI cites is a notably lower caliber: thefts, hand-to-hand drug sales and felony assaults. The FBI has recently had difficulty distinguishing ordinary American Muslims from terrorists; now it appears it has a similar problem distinguishing teenage fads from criminal conspiracies.

“Social networking websites are a popular conveyance for Juggalo sub-culture to communicate and expand,” the FBI warns.

Worse, “Juggalos’ disorganization and lack of structure within their groups, coupled with their transient nature, makes it difficult to classify them and identify their members and migration patterns.”

Actually, all the feds would have to do is wait for an Insane Clown Posse tour to roll through town. That’s what Brian Raftery did last year for a WIRED profile of Juggalo Nation. His description of the Juggalo threat:

They tend to feel that they’ve been misunderstood outsiders their whole lives, whether for being overweight, looking weird, being poor, or even for just liking ICP in the first place. It’s a world where man boobs are on proud display, where long-hairs and pink-hairs mingle, where nobody makes fun of the fat kid toweling off near Lake Hepatitis. For them, the Gathering is a place they can be accepted, a feeling reinforced by the constant chants of the Juggalo credo “Fam-uh-LEE! Fam-uh-LEE!”

The FBI even cautions that the Juggalos are among 53 gangs “whose members have served in or are affiliated with the U.S. military.” My colleague Katie Drummond somehow neglected to report the Army’s policy on face paint in her recent story on military body modification.

Most problematically, since Juggalos evidently believe themselves to be badasses, an FBI report legitimizing their outlaw image will surely embolden them. A generation of teenagers will come to believe it is acceptable to spray each other with Midwestern-specific soda and devalue lyricism in hip hop.

The official FBI report: http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/pu...g%20Trends.pdf

[jefferie]

Just because this thread needs a periodic bump and this list of do's and don'ts could be useful for anyone going to coachella also. I like how this list of don'ts starts with don't eat the mud and ends with don't piss on people who are passed out.

[aaronbk]

YES!YES!YES! that mini doc was so fuckin awesome! I didnt want it to end. So entertaining! "woop woop"

[stinkbutt]

Juggalobook: exactly what it sounds like fb for juggalos

Google if you dare

[SoulDischarge]

I had to wonder about something: http://www.facebook.com/pages/JLGBT-...15277971886958

That Juggalobook is pretty precious though. It says "(Name) is now homies with (name)" when they befriend one another! That's adorable.

[stinkbutt]

They don't like something they "whoop whoop" it

[guedita]

[zimmy1222]

hahahahahaha...

even more hahahahaha: smoke detector battery has been taken out... aww yeaaaaa

[suprefan]

LOL

[guedita]

ALL THE LIGHTNING SURE IS BRIGHTNING
BUT IT WILL NEVER BE FRIGHTENING

....................

WHEN I GO OFF MY RAMP
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A STAMP
AND IT WILL BE DAMP.

[JustSteve]

another kid who was told he was special his whole life and that he can do anything he wants and do it well. here's your participation trophy, son.

[paulb]

That video deserves 2 whoop whoops.

[juloxx]

Im just waiting for the day when juggalo culture adapts dubstep into its culture. You know its not far.