Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Psychopathic video review #2 Violent J's love songs

For this week I'm going to write a review for three music videos of my choosing just like last week. This time around rather than the horror based songs and videos of before I'll be doing love songs by one half of the Insane Clown Posse "Violent J" (real name Joseph "Joe" Bruce). One of the videos is from Violent J's second full length solo album "The Shining" while the other two are technically ICP releases although only Violent J is heard on the song.

First song is "Another Love Song" from the Insane Clown Posse release "The Amazing Jeckel Brothers" the fifth jokers card released in 1999.
The name "Another Love Song" pays homage to the title of the song "Love Song" from their second major release "The Ringmaster" the second jokers card.


















Jake "the just" (left) and Jack "the sinister" (right)

Another Love Song music video

The video opens up with ICP and Twiztid driving in a nice older looking car with a big red hatchet man on the hood. They're driving in what I've come to find out is the Arizona desert when suddenly the car shits out. Shaggy 2 Dope (real name Joseph "Joey" Utsler) the other half of ICP, and Monoxide of Twiztid get out to look at the problem. Violent J is singing in the passenger and Jamie Madrox is behind him bumping his head to the music. Shaggy and Mono make the mistake of taking the radiator cap off and hot pressurized coolant shoots out at them. They push the car to a gas station/auto shop and ask the man there to repair their vehicle, while there Violent J spots a girl who looks at the men almost with a look of disgust or at least confusion based on a sense of misplaced fear. The four men go to a diner while waiting for their car to be fixed. The locals and staff in there all get uneasy understandable seeing as how ICP is painted like clowns and Twiztid has their powder faced blacken eyed makeup on as opposed to the face paint they eventually stuck with. Shaggy is messing with a ketchup bottle, Monoxide is eating, J  is grabbing at the waitress, and Madrox is staring down locals a couple booths away. Next they are walking into a trailer park for reasons I can only speculate. My thinking is that they went to retrieve their car but it wasn't there, the girl they saw earlier took it and now they're looking for her. The reason I think this is because at one point they spot her in their car and you can see Madrox pointing at her in a fashion that suggests he's pointing out where she is, then she does some donuts in front of them and drives off. Back to where I was at, they're walking into the trailer park and towards a particular trailer with a scrawny faggish looking guy in skimpy clothes and a fat chick in front. The fat chick runs away and the guy runs inside the trailer that they proceed to beat the shit out of kicking it throwing things at it, whatever they can do to cause damage. I think its understandable for the couple to be fearful seeing as how Violent J is 6' 3" and heavy set Shaggy is 6' 2" with an average build Monoxide is also 6' 2" average build and Madrox is 6' 4" and even heavier than J not to mention two of them are painted like clowns while the other two are made to look dead. The rest of the video is just them smashing the trailer the girl doing what I mentioned before and them trashing into each other like a mosh pit. The song itself is J naming all the things he could do like buying her nice things, going back to school, taking off the clown paint and getting a real job, ect. but how he's not going to do that he's going to kill her because she "fucked his homie". The chorus clearly stating that he's going to kill her ...
"I'd rather cut that neck in half
I'd rather choke out that bitch-ass
I'd rather chop and never stop
Because you fucked my homie"


Next song is "Jealousy" from Violent J's second solo album "The Shining" released in 2009 on April 28th his 37th birthday.
























The cover of "The Shining"

Jealousy music video

The video starts with a shot of Detroit city slowly moving until the music comes on you hear an aggravated shout from J and it goes over to J at a club by the bar trying to gain the interest of a nearby girl. She's not having it at all, you can tell by the look on her face alone. As he's taking a sip of his drink she waves at what he thinks is him so he tries to wave back but is bumped by the guy she was really waving at causing him to spill his drink. He looks at the both of them upset although most wouldn't notice because of the clown paint. The chorus cuts on and it shows clips of people mainly J dancing but only shows a black figure with a colorful aurora and colorful background. In the next scenes J is in the bathroom snorting coke, popping pills and downing them with booze, smoking cicigarettes, fixing his hair, and just messing around as the drugs hit his system. The entire time a bathroom attendant is watching him with a "what the fuck?" face until J gets in his face and walks out. It shows clips of J killing the guy but it's just his imagination. The attendant says something to a bouncer and points out J. J pops up between the girl and the guy and several bouncers quickly grab him and throw him out of the club. Amidst all his is of course the colorful chorus scenes at certain intervals and even a guitar solo. But as soon as he is thrown from the club the song ends he gets up brushes himself off starts walking away turns and shouts "fuck you man!" tears off his jacket throws it and keeps walking til the video ends. What I really like at the end is the fact there is a big hatchet man in place of a has station logo but being off to the side you ,at not notice the first time around.
The chorus sums up the song nicely...
"I'm overpowered by jealousy
But that's alright
I'm overpowered by jealousy
As long as you're mine tonight"


The final song is absolutely demented Violent J went all out on this one. It's called "The Kreayshawn Song" and there is a story behind the entire thing. The most recent of the new set of jokers cards from ICP is "The Mighty Death Pop" the second of the new deck. On MDP there is a song called "When I'm Clownin'" there are several versions, the album version and the single version featuring a female rapper by the name of Kreayshawn. The single version was going to be used for a music video with Kreayshawn in it. Now the story is that Violent J "fell in love" with Kreayshawn for about two weeks so he wrote this song about her and even made a music video just for laughs but never actually intended to release it . But apparently she couldn't be in the music video for "When I'm Clownin'" due to the fact she was seven months pregnant. Needless to say things fell through she was replaced by Danny Brown on the song and in the video and "The Kreayshawn Song" song and video was released just for the fuck of it. To top it off Shaggy 2 Dope, Violent J's life long best friend and musical partner of over twenty years actually refused to be involved with the music video in any way apart from a warning at the beginning of the video to the juggalo's about what they're about to see and how it has nothing whatsoever to do with "The Mighty Death Pop".

The Kreayshawn Song video

After Shaggy's warning the music starts and what had become my favorite song and music video starts. It reminds me of some of their earlier songs about love and women which are simply put "funny as hell" but this song is something else it's on an entirely new level and I pray for more and would honestly love to see it become a regular group on Psychopathic Records. For this video J is dressed in a white suit with fancy shoes and a black t-shirt that has a sparkly Mighty Death Pop on the front. On stage with J is a band of clowns and three female backup singers dressed kinda like Marilyn Monroe and it just so happens that the singer in the middle is Violent J's wife Michelle "Sugar Slam" Bruce (maiden name Rapp). He gives a little intro before rapping talking about how much he appreciates her being on that song and how every time he hears it he wants to fuck her (not quite in those words but I've been working on this all day and want to finish it already). He starts rapping and it show him in a  yellow shirt and white fedora at the park either on a bench or on a blanket lying on the ground while showing clips of what is supposed to be J and Kreay on a date all from her perspective. The date clips start with him picking her up in a black van then driving to a restaurant teasing her with a blunt, they get to the restaurant J is eating sloppily and forcing her to have glasses of Faygo a cheap soft drink from their home town Detroit that they've been rapping about for many years. The chorus starts and it cuts exclusively to him on stage with the clown masked band and his female backup singers. The chorus ends and we see him in a bath robe with a cream face mask that women use on as opposed to his face paint a towel on his head and he's holding a kitten in a room full of pictures of Kreayshawn. So now it variates between the bathrobe, the stage, and the date. At this point in the date J is trying to get them into a club and they sneak in through the back at which point they start dancing but in the video J is just messing around because I know for a fact that he can dance. It goes to the chorus again this time switching between J on stage and J in the bathrobe with all the kittens which are most likely his. The chorus ends and now in the date scenes they are at the bar of the club J orders two drinks takes Kreayshawns downs them both and makes the hand gesture to suggest sex that being the pointer finger going into the other set of fingers made to look like a hole, he waves the keys in her face and they are off. A quick clip of J in the bathrobe in clouds with pictures of Kreay raining down and its back to showing the date. He's bringing her into a motel room, then it shows J on the bed in his underwear as a bra is thrown at his face. A line in the song about him pulling his wang out and the screen cuts to a heart made of hearts with the word "BOING" on it. The chorus plays one more time then J has these final words for Kreayshawn...
Yeah,
write back soon,
but keep it on the low, shit,
my babies mama will kick my ass,
kick your ass too,
shit,
we can do another song together tho that'd be dope,
unless you trippin
I just love how the minute he mentions his baby mama the camera is on Sugar Slam.

Just for the hell of it I'm going to put up pictures of Violent J with Sugar Slam just so you can question how he got such a hottie.





























Violent J with his wife Michelle "Sugar Slam" Rapp/Bruce, his son Joseph Bruce Jr "Violent JJ", and his daughter Ruby Bruce





































Violent J, his wife, and his son


























Violent J and his daughter


So there you go, that is Violent J and his family

That should about wrap it up
With love -(insert fake alias here)








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