ICP’s New Joker Cards

There are so many things that make ICP more unique than the next band. ICP album lyrical content, ICP merchandise, Juggalo face paint, and their own festival are examples, and that’s just naming a few. But where, in this writer’s opinion, ICP is more unique than almost any other band out there, is every time there’s a new ICP Joker card.

For the uninitiated, ICP Joker cards are the mythological, didactic attachment to every ICP album. Each represents and explains a different moral lesson, and spurs much conversation among Juggalos. So what about ICP’s new Joker Cards, and particularly that of newest offering Mighty Death Pop!?

Mighty Death Pop!, the latest ICP album, is due out in May of this year. How will the new ICP Joker’s card for this ICP album compare to the rest? Mighty Death Pop!’s Joker’s card meaning has not been revealed yet, but Violent J and Shaggy have said that, like all other Joker’s cards, the Mighty Death Pop! Joker’s card will teach Juggalos something about themselves.

However, they have said that the Mighty Death Pop!’s album content will reflect all the anger they’ve saved up from the “crazy dissing of ICP and Juggalos” over the years. By looking at the Joker’s image (it looks as maniacal as the rest), it would appear that they’re telling the truth with that ominous warning. All that is concretely known about the Mighty Death Pop!’s new ICP Joker’s card is that it is second in the second deck of ICP’s new Joker’s cards.

The last time there was a new ICP album, and hence a new ICP Joker’s card, the album was Bang! Boom! Pow! and its Joker card character was a “continuous explosion that stomps his way through the crowd blowing evil souls to Hell.” So if that card was less angry than this upcoming Mighty Death Pop! new ICP Joker’s card, then Juggalos should be prepared for possibly the nastiest Joker’s card yet.

Furthermore, whatever character or moral lesson this new ICP Joker’s card ends up resembling could say a great deal about the direction ICP plans to take the rest of their new Joker cards in this second deck. Being only the second installment of the second deck, any ICP albums to be released after Mighty Death Pop! will be judged by and compared to these earlier new ICP Joker cards.

All ICP albums have grit to them, which isn’t a surprise knowing who Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope are and where they come from.  But, it’s one thing to have grit naturally and a completely different thing to have that trait kick into overdrive when you have something to prove.

Because of the mainstream media’s backlash towards ICP (that’s intensified over the past few years), it wouldn’t be much of a surprise for their song content and Joker card content to be more ruthless than it’s ever been before.

The newest ICP album, Mighty Death Pop!, is out in May of this year, start getting excited now!

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The newest ICP Album, Mighty Death Pop!, is due out in May of 2012, and could possibly have one of the most ruthless new ICP joker card characters yet. To learn more about Mighty Death Pop! or any other ICP albums, please visit http://insaneclownposse.com.