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?

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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