Lucem Ferre

Oh, I forgot to mention the Phonk! SpaceGhostPurrp.

The Batlord

Because I love Twiztid. And ICP. But all the other Psychopathic acts are garbage. All of them. Okay, Blaze has some entertaining songs, but for the most part he's still ass.

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Lucem Ferre

I never actually liked Blaze until Clockwork Grey, but eventually his first two projects grew on me over time. I just never liked the whole gangster rap thing he did. Gang Rags was a forced abomination that only sucked because of Violent J taking all control of the project. Gang Rags Reborn, which I guess is supposedly what Gang Rags was supposed to be, was phenomenal. His first release since leaving ICP and it's great.

Aspergers Boyz are very generic. It's like they got two of the most generic juggalos off the street and let them rap. But I did like God's Hand and Garcia Bros. To me they are diet Twiztid. They even started chopping when Twiztid started chopping. But I like them for what ever reason. They are like, clubby swag rappers for juggalos.

Boondox is very talented and he's evolved a lot since his first Boondox album. Dude can sing his ass off. You can hear it a lot on Krimson Kreek. The one thing I don't like is his corny southern gimmick songs. Like they are trying to force this gimmick down our throats. But luckily he too has left Psychopathic that seems to make all their rappers take up wrestling gimmicks. I take his Abaddon album over anything ICP put out recently.

Also, I want to point out, since I skimmed through your reviews, that a lot of juggalos listen to Slayer and Black Flag. In fact, who doesn't listen to Slayer?

Lucem Ferre

I can't defend Kid Crusher though.

He has a handful of songs I really like so I consider myself a fan, but a lot of the time his voice is so... Jim Carey...

The Batlord

Not the ones I've known over the years. For the most part, they were close-minded goons who liked to pretend that they liked their music because it wasn't mainstream, but seemed to like juggalo music for the exact same reasons anybody likes the mainstream: it's catchy and doesn't take any brain power to get into. Anything that really took any kind of effort to get into, they had no time for.

I'm trying to think of Psychopathic albums I actually like that aren't either Twiztid or ICP, and the only one that really comes to mind is Violent J's Wizard of the Hood (****ing fantastic record that I blazed many a brain cell to). Maybe at some point I'll have the desire to give other stuff another chance, but it's hard to drum up much enthusiasm about The Harvest or ABK.

Boondox will have to have come a VERY long way for me to tolerate him. On his debut his rapping is just so awful that it defies reason. It's almost like he's trying to trick you into thinking he has talent by rapping fastish and with a kind of bouncy rhythm, but his verses are just repetitive and dull to the point of being mind-numbing. It would be one thing if he had the personality of ICP or Twiztid, but he does not.

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Lucem Ferre

Well most of their music is more of an emotional or cathartic outlet rather than anything thought provoking.

But it sounds like you ran into very generic juggalos. They hypocrites that think their music is better just because it isn't mainstream. I don't really respect anybody who listens to music based on whether or not it's mainstream.

I'd recommend Boondox's new album Abaddon. He only has two really corny southern redneck songs on there. But the album does have a very strong country music influence to it. I was surprised I liked it so much since I typically dislike country.

Janszoon

Thank you for the list. As I mentioned in the OP, I'm a fan of Gravediggaz. Obviously I'm familiar with Eminem, but he's not someone I'd consider horrorcore. And of course I'm familiar with ICP, I can't stand them though. Tyler, the Creator has a couple good tracks, but most of his music I'm not a fan of. I like Earl, especially the new album, but it's not something I'd call horrorcore. Tech N9ne, Prozak, and Mars I've listened to but wasn't impressed. There doesn't really seem to be anything horror-y about any of those three at all, except maybe Mars lyrics, but lyrics alone aren't enough to make want to listen to something. Like I said to Grindy above, it's the music I care about, lyrics are just icing on the cake. With that in mind, do you have any specific comments about the other bands on your list that might give me an idea of which ones would appeal to me?

I like SpaceGhostPurrp. There's nothing remotely horrorcore about him though.

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Esham is pretty decent. Necro of course. I back the Twiztid recommendation too.

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Janszoon

Yeah, I've been a fan of Necro for quite a while. Never listened Esham before and only fleetingly heard Twiztid. Do you have any album recommendations of either of them?

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grindy

Glad you liked those. It's not really horrorcore, but a lot of the beats are nicely gloomy.
The Hollywood Hank album isn't as great as the Dilemma stuff anyway. The production is really basic, all done with Fruity Loops by HH himself.

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