Anyone who’s familiar with Detroit Horror Rap duo Insane Clown Posse is also familiar with their well-known tiffs, chiefly the fellow Detroiter Eminem feud and also the Tila Tequila-ICP feud. In fact, it wouldn’t be that much of a shock if a lot of music fans first became aware of ICP through the Eminem feud and Tila Tequila-ICP feud. But what is it about ICP that makes them so divisive with their contemporaries? To find out, we must examine both the Tila Tequila-ICP Gathering of the Juggalos feud and the old school Eminem feud.
The Eminem feud goes way back to 1997, before Eminem was a household name and before the Gathering of the Juggalos had ever existed. Strangely enough, it was about 12 whole years before the names Tila-Tequila and ICP would ever be associated with one another.
The Eminem feud started because Eminem had included ICP as a guest act one of his EP release party fliers when he was an unknown MC in Detroit. Angry about not being consulted for such an appearance, Violent J rejected the offer to appear, which Eminem took as a personal offense and began insulting ICP with every chance he got. Hence the Eminem feud began.
The two parties hurled insults back and forth for years, but realized they had bigger things to worry about in 2005 and resolved it all. Since, it has even been rumored that Eminem might even some day appear on an Insane Clown Posse track or at the Gathering of the Juggalos.
Fresher in the minds of Tila Tequila and ICP fans is the infamous Tila Tequila-ICP Gathering of the Juggalos incident of 2009. For some inexplicable reason, both Tila Tequila and ICP thought it would be a good idea for her to play the Gathering of the Juggalos horror rap music festival that year. Once rumors began circulating that Juggalos might pull something during her set, Violent J tried to get her to back out and said they would pay her regardless, but she was relentless in her desire to play the set.
The booing and object-hurling that resulted has gone down in Gathering of the Juggalos lore. To make matters worse, Tila Tequila proceeded to fabricate a story about Juggalos chasing her back to her trailer and rocking it back and forth. Needless to say, that did not happen at her Gathering of the Juggalos appearance, and has never / will never happen at any Gathering of the Juggalos. Not even if Eminem (feud now over) performed at the Gathering of the Juggalos.
After analyzing both the Tila Tequila-ICP feud and the Eminem feud, it becomes apparent that ICP is no more antagonistic than any mainstream rock act out there. Celebrity disagreements bubble into well-publicized grudges on a regular basis, ICP has just been victimized due to their genre of music and the high profile of artists they’ve fought with. Now getting up there in their years, it would be surprising if ICP partook in anything resembling the Eminem feud or Tila Tequila-ICP feud during the rest of their career, especially at an event as well-known as Gathering of the Juggalos.
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Insane Clown Posse has had their fair share of disagreements with other celebrities, as evident in their Eminem feud and the Tila Tequila-ICP Gathering of the Juggalos feud, but there’s more to each story than meets the eye. To learn more about Insane Clown Posse and their contemporaries, please visit http://insaneclownposse.com.
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