your a dumbass, icp is the fucking complete opposite of trying to be 'uber famous' they are an underground band from the FUCKIN D, the murder mitten, the dirty glove bitch MICHIGAN AND WE WILL FUCK YOU UP. lol jkjk...kinda... michiganders are 'uber assholes', don't fuck with us.
all music is real music, as long as its fuckin audible its fuckin real, there are intentions and motives behind every work of art... every form of expression. unless you want to talk about gucci mane or something like soulja boy, then i understand UNreal music... that shit is stupid.
they dress like clowns because they consider them selves to be apart of and they follow the value system of the Dark Carnival. (hey, everyone has their own cup of tea)
best thing about icp, is when no other music is workin, your feelin insane, your emotions are outta wack...switch on some icp and just fuckin rock with it, it brings sanity through profanity. truth through obscenity and bluntness, and metaphorically also.
i think they try to attract the fan base of youth attracted to wicked shit like that, and giving them what they want in music in a few hit tracks pulls them in, but in many of their songs when you really start listening to them you can see they are good guys morally which is conterary to popular belief.. most people think they are really hatchet slaying nutjobs roaming the streets of detroit lookin for shady.. they do have a fine soda line, faygo is my shit... and they are weed friendly.. all in all.. ICP for the win. (ftw)
ICP fans check out Dark Lotus, they are also signed to psychopathic records, they seem to have a hindu type religious backdrop to the music.. but they keep it real and they dont shove anything down your throat... but they idolize the lotus flower. The lotus flower is a flower that grows in the nastiest of swamps, overseas in asia, in ancient times the munks saw the lotus flower come up through all this muck and its petals remain intact and dirt free, representing PURITY. ...as do many bands show their values regarding purity in their music.
This just adds to the argument this stuff is REAL music, to dismiss it as some comical mainstream sellout shit is ignorant... but how do you expect people to know much about the backgrounds of any band, especially these underground ones..some hide their background in shame, others expose it in honesty.
in the end its what you say to the music more than what the music says to you... we as individual people just hear things and judge/perceive them in our own unique ways, and this is a good thing because we make the music relevant to our own 'self', think about how it would be if we all got the same ideas from the same things, well now wouldn't we be fucked, im grateful for extreme bands/acts/influences/ like ICP, they expand our minds to new concepts we have been sheltered from or will most likely never experience, better yet they can give us/show us experience and knowledge even if it makes your average person cringe.... i wonder if they still would if taken out of a social setting, sometimes i think people talk down on these bands just because they saw a hatchet, and they think they will be judged for listening them. kinda like politics, its hard to get people to openly express extremist views although you know our governments are stockpiled with them trapped behind zipped lips.
ICP MOTHER FUCKER, MICHIGAN MOTHER FUCKER, PSYCHOPATHIC RECORDS MOTHER FUCKER.