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After a migration back east, at the Electric Factory in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania it was very apparent that the face paint, juggalo-chants, and Faygo were flowing swiftly like the waters returning to the Red Sea after engulfing the Pharaoh chasing Moses. The parking lot was crammed to the brim with cars being maneuvered and remaneuvered as the juggalos piled in like seven fat kids in a two door Escort.

As the doors were opened and security patted you down a low growl from the deepest, darkest depths of New York emerged Necro – accompanied by hypest of the hype, Mr. Hyde. With an overbearing yell like Gargamel, the set along with the show were both kicked off with ‘Beautiful Music for You to Die To’. While delivering a lyrical onslaught with a voice that sounded like sandpaper scraping against the Exorcist’s voice box – the rest of his set was oddly similar to ones in the past with songs like; ‘Most Sadistic’, ‘Who’s Ya Daddy’, and ‘No Remorse’. The reason I even say anything about it is because the day right before on the 18th Necro dropped his most recent album to date, ‘DIE!’.

Following their set was an interlude from none other than recently made Psychopathic Don, Mike E. Clark, the mad scientist of beats himself. In his goggles and white lab coat, the mad man took favorites from the Psychopathic catalog and mixing them putting verses on new beats, quickening the pace and slowing them down almost like chopped and screwed. He seemed to have more of a presence and control over the crowd than most of the acts on the bill throughout the night.

Once the two from New York exited the stage to a “NECRO!” chant from the crowd and Mike Clark’s madness on the sound system, up next was Canada’s own Kittie. A nice switch up from the regular type of openers at a usual ICP show – they were an actual band, who played their own instruments. With their latest album in stores the group did songs mainly of their new material from my understanding. Normally I wouldn’t want to listen to that type, but live their set wasn’t that bad.

With Kittie’s set finally coming to a close, up next was the man who brought us hits like ‘Fantastic Voyage’, ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’, and the theme song to Kenan and Kel; Coolio. Accompanied by four other hype-men, this set seemed to be the worst of the night. The whole thing was a build up to the final song ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’, but it seemed that I couldn’t hear much of the performance from everyone on stage who had a microphone yelling the words instead of simply rapping them. About half way through the set one of the guys up on stage exited and came back shortly after with a saxophone. It was a weird set that didn’t seem to fit with the rest of what was happening.

With the second to last group up next the room seemed to fill out with smoke as an incomplete Kottonmouth Kings stormed the stage. Minus Lou Dog, The Taxman, and Pakalieka the rest of the King Klick came out one by one to the new self-titled single ‘Long Live The Kings’. At the very beginning of the set they invoked the power and summoned the newest member to the stage, The Dirtball. They seemed to take off with the set with their best foot forward, but after the first couple of songs it fell right back into a routine run of a set with songs like ‘Day Dreaming Fazes’, ‘Bump’, and ‘Full Throttle’ among others.

After all of the openers and co-headliner went up it was finally time for the main event, the cream of the crop, the fiz in the pop, the Insane Clown Posse. As all the lights in the building cut out it was only behind the curtain that they remained lit – and even then they were switched to a red tint. As the curtains were pulled up and the stage was exposed, all you can see was a blackened silhouette of the ringmaster, the backup vocalist from Riddlebox on, a man responsible for a lot of the magic surrounding the Clowns from the inner city, Legs Diamond.

As he gripped his microphone and began the spectacle that everyone was there to see, the crowd erupted with over excitement because ‘The Show Must Go On’ was blasted through the sound system as ICP slammed the stage with their Faygo chucking ways. Their set was one that was similarly old with a new twist, with tracks like ‘Hocus Pocus’, a remixed ‘Chicken Huntin’ and ‘Down with the Clown’, the duo did jams off of their album recently released three times ‘Bang! Pow! Boom!’. At one point both Legs Diamond and Mike Clark were onstage for the song ‘Miracles’ both playing live guitar adding an element to the Clowns on stage I can’t remember seeing. After all was said and done the show was pretty good and fun to see if you get the chance you should definitely check it out, if you missed it then you got the bone.

Walking out the venue afterwards, outside, was a drunken asshole, Malaria from Mission : Infect was outside handing out free copies of his recently recorded ‘The Fat Friend’ for the juggalos to nab up and gave me the exclusive link for those who are interested to check out right here; putting a nice end on swell evening.

Websites

InsaneClownPosse.com
PsychopathicRecords.com

Location:

• The Electric Factory
• Pennsylvania
• United States

Guests:

• Kottonmouth Kings, Kittie, Coolio & Necro

Tour:

• Happy Daze Tour

Record Label:

• Psychopathic Records

Reviewer:

• Whipstick

Review Date:

• 05/19/2010