INSANE CLOWN POSSE

7 p.m., The Village. $22.

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Reason number 376 that the apocalypse is drawing nigh: Insane Clown
Posse, the Detroit rap duo famous for painting their faces like evil
clowns, carrying the torch for horrorcore (dark, largely horrifying
subject matter) and spraying Faygo soda on its fans at concerts, pulls
in up to $10 million annually. That spit-your-coffee-out-mid-sentence
revelation comes courtesy of a recent Detroit Free Press article
released not long after “Bang! Pow! Boom!,” the group’s 11th album,
peaked at number four on the Billboard 200. The report details the rap
duo’s empire — an artist-owned label, an annual festival that draws up
to 20,000 fans, wrestling exhibitions, comic books, features films, a
twice weekly Web radio show — without examining the most provocative
part of it. Who’s buying all this shit? Or rather who are the thousands
of ICP fans who call themselves Juggalos and Juggalettes, rap/sing
along to bad lyrics mostly about behaving badly, paint their faces and
occupy a disturbing chunk of online real estate? Your guess is as good
as mine, but I bet they fill up the Village.

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