ICP released the second part of their The Wraith Joker's Card, which has… no Wraith in it? That's OK, though, because Cameron and Nathan still have plenty to talk about, including non-funky crows, Dr. Oz®'s patented Drano Cleanse™, and Cameron's highly erotic thigh-unveiling.

We were warned about this album, but it's actually pretty good—especially the beats. The main problem is that ICP have mostly abandoned their social commentary by this point, and instead have become "family values" people (suburbanites?) concerned with "personal responsibility." That's disappointing, because one of the things we liked best about ICP was their social commentary.

Listen along to The Wraith: Hell's Pit on Spotify here.

Learnin' Links

• Grundle, Gooch, Taint
• Straight Edge, and No Fap
• Cockles! And coracles, which is the other word Nathan was thinking of
• The Shaggs 
• Dante's Inferno, Canto 25
• Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, which features some raunchy anti-church tales
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• The Last of Us
• Rheum, also known as "sleep," or "eye boogies"
• Night hag
• A mental health and violence meta-study from California DHCS

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Here it is: Insane Clown Posse’s holy testimony 🙏✝️🙏. ICP reveals that they’re secret Christians, the Dark Carnival is God, and that they’re not sorry if they tricked you. Just like that weird kid at school who tried to make friends with you only to ask you to something called “youth group”, ICP has apparently had an ulterior motive all long. But, as they say, “why should the devil get all the good music?”

2002’s The Wraith: Shangri-La is a pretty good album (much less women-hate), but for some reason Nathan and Cameron have a hard time getting into it. Has ICP lost their edge, and their carnivalesque aesthetic? Maybe. Are they capable of keeping to their horrorcore roots while describing their version of heaven? When you have four kids, will you look back on this album as “the shit”? You decide!

Listen along to The Wraith: Shangri-La on Spotify here.

Learnin' Links

• Killer Klowns from Outer Space—see a clip featuring Officer Mooney here
• Commedia dell’arte, which features clowns, and Dante’s La Divina Commedia
• Parallel fifths
• One of the places that published overblown claims about ICP being evangelical Christians

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