In our interview with ICP — Insane Clown Posse — we ask Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope about their favourite rock and metallic bands. And we chat about nu-metal from the subgenre’s finest rapper to why they like the brand new faculty bands greater than the traditional ones.

Elsewhere, the duo replicate on their time working at St. Andrews Corridor in Detroit, Michigan. They had been lucky sufficient to catch legendary bands very early of their profession, together with a younger Rage Towards the Machine taking part in to some hundred individuals within the 1,000 capability room.

ICP’s Favourite Rock + Metallic Bands

“I like grunge, man. I like some ’80s metallic too, however I am an enormous grunge fan. I take heed to it, nonetheless, continually,” Violent J tells us. “I additionally like issues like Korn.”

“After I was a child at my mother’s home, it was Queen or the Beatles or Motown shit, stuff like that,” Shaggy 2 Dope appears to be like again. “You have to be a rattling idiot to be a musician and never perceive and take heed to all types of music.”

All through their profession, ICP have readily embraced different types of music, even past rap, hip-hop, rock and metallic.

Early on, Violent J’s huge grunge favourite was Pearl Jam, however these days it has been Alice in Chains. “I used to be late in discovering how deep and the way superior they actually had been. I acquired to see them at one of many final [four] exhibits they ever did [with Layne Staley] once they had been opening for KISS in ’96.”

He shouts out Pearl Jam once more, in addition to post-grunge standouts Puddle of Mudd. “I feel Wes [Scantlin] is form of loopy, however I positively am a fan. No genius will not be loopy.”

“I did not absolutely perceive the depth of grunge music till I acquired older,” Violent J continues, “On the time, I used to be very conscious of what Pearl Jam was doing and Nirvana. However later in my life, I am going again and examine this shit — the data I by no means heard.”

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ICP’s Nu-Metallic Favorites

Whereas we might by no means model ICP nu-metal, their intersection at rock and rap’s crossroads invitations a dialogue about nu-metal and who’s the most effective rapper within the scene.

“We did a music with Fred Durst,” Violent J says when requested about nu-metal rappers. “I like Fred Durst and it is so nice to see Limp Bizkit smash it proper now.”

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Shaggy 2 Dope provides, “You’ve got acquired motherfuckers in nu-metal that, throughout the components the place they do rap, they spit insanely fucking good.”

For him, he is actually into the brand new faculty of nu-metal and lure metallic.

“Metropolis Morgue — fucking superb. Kim Dracula, Nathan James… holy fuck, man. I do know plenty of them got here up listening to rap too, in order that they know the right way to do it. It isn’t like again within the days of rock ‘n’ roll guys attempting to rap [mocks basic rap cadence]. They’d no clue the right way to do it,” he says.

“As we speak’s nu-metal is quite a bit higher than the outdated nu-metal,” provides Violent J. “I wasn’t an enormous fan of nu-metal within the ’90s.”

One old style nu-metal band they each admired although, is Korn.

“Korn was the toughest shit I ever heard when that got here out. That ‘Blind’ music – what the fuck? That shit was mind-bending. I used to be such a hip-hop head on the time, however I bumped that report insanely,” Shaggy 2 Dope enthuses.

“Korn got here busting via the wall like Kool-Help Man. It simply left a gap for everyone else to observe,” Violent J assesses. “Every thing about them — the swag, the [imitates slap bass]… They’re innovators. They modified music perpetually.”

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