The Wraith: Shangri-La

The Intro

A presence can be felt by those who have followed the epic saga as told by the Insane Clown Posse. It is a presence that is synonymous with the crumbling of time itself. Thus emerges a being so powerful that he can exist between both the land of the living, and that of the dead. He goes by many names but is known to the living only as the Wraith. He walks upon worlds forgotten, and descends from Heavens; fade into grey to witness the death of all mortal things, so that he may guide the departed upon the path they have chosen (Shangri-La). Here is the story of the path to Shangri-La, the 6th Jokers Card. Only mow will we truly understand the meaning of the saga, for this saga all along, each Jokers Card, is actually none other than...the echo of our lives.

Into the Light

THE CARNEY: Hurry up, show's startin'!

THE RANDOM PATRON: I can't believe they're still having it! I better get my butt in there right now!

THE RING LEADER: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the sensational and amazing...Carnival of Carnage! They said it couldn't happen, they said it wouldn't last, but boys and girls and everyone we've got a carnival for that ass! Tens of thousands of freaks, sideshows, and fools, a carnival who together lives by their own rules.

SHAGGS 2 DOPE: We looked into the stars, foretold everyone: something dark and wicked this way comes. We told of oddities, crawling from the dark, and a carmival which we can all belong (ALL BELONG). I dwell upon the streets, and I can tell you this: I see some circus Juggalo shit goin on. People drawn together by rare and scrubby music, and we even gather once a year to PUT IT DOWN!

SYN, SHAGGS 2 DOPE, AND VIOLENT J (CHORUS): With tilt-a-whirls and merry-goes', and carnivals of Faygo, we're just trying to tell you all about the light, right. Now all the Jokers Cards have fallen with spectacular array, so when the Wraith is calling, walk into the light, right.

VIOLENT J: I hold a bloody axe dress in hatchet red, we speak languages people don't understand (DON'T UNDERSTAND). I send Faygos via punted clear across the stadium in fashion only in' Juggalos could ever demand. I got ninjas in my backyard wearing Anybody Killa paint, I'm thinkin', "What the is going on?" Then I see the platinum on the wall, and I realize the Carnival's been right here all along, so let's bring it on!

CHORUS

SHAGGS 2 DOPE AND VIOLENT J: The crows have overlooked, we gave you all they gave, the carousel will spin on through the night (THROUGH THE NIGHT). In Oz I'd be the Wizard, 'cause I'm overwhelmed, but we just hoped the Jokers Cards would point you out to the light/So you'll be tight/Right.

CHORUS

VIOLENT J AND SHAGGS 2 DOPE: Always uninvited/ off/unrespected, sometimes he creeps other times he

LEGS DIAMOND: Legs Diamond in the house, and we sendin' Clown Love out to Above the Law

VIOLENT J: When I sit there and write the shit for the mic I hold, I make sure my beats are loud, and bold, and cold, Violent J is the name that I go by, waking up with blood on my hands and I don't know why. You mother ers tryin' to get in my path, don't be surprised when you get a shotgun up your ass. Instigators, I got one for that ass too, I'm gonna hang you from a street light, mangled and blue, ew! You on my shit like a fiend on coke, but if you say the wrong thing I'll put a slit in your throat, so, It's not the answer no, I'm not a dancer no, I'm not a hero, a zero, but I call myself a Juggalo, and this is not a Demo, ICP, Above the Law, we let it GO!

CHORUS: Fantasizing, dramatizing, re-enacting, MURDER MURDER! Fantasizing, dramatizing, re-enacting, MURDER MURDER!

SHAGGS 2 DOPE: I feel actions, speak louder than words, and verbs and adjectives they give the scrubs a chance to live. Not whose first, second, or third. It ain't he said, and she said, what ever you heard. When you live like that your life is mangled, in other words your neck is all tangled up, I ain't a hoe, I always go for mine, I was taught it's hard from the start, but you can always CLIMB!

CHORUS

VIOLENT J AND SHAGGS 2 DOPE: Violent J, I break backs with my crew, if I'm jumping in the pit then I'm getting loose cause I'm taking out people, causing bodily harm, making moves to improve the Dark Carnival brainstorm/I'm not inferior, not taking no shit...Last kid that tried to check me got his ing neck slit/Powers my name, the clown be insane/and if we get to panicking/WE ALL GONNA REARRANGE!

THE RING LEADER: Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the "Triple Threat"! The Wraith, the Great Milenko, and the Ringmaster!

VIOLENT J: Something had woke me a thump on my roof, it was followed by crashing, more thumping ensued. I jumped out of my bed thinking I

Ain

I punch bitches in the fake tities/he does/ i got warrants in like 8 cities/ he dies/ I like yo muder those provokin'/ he does/
I swing quick an dleave a motherfuckin' throat hangin' open, I drink the blood of street rat/ he does/ yo Monox Boogie,
where the weed at? I got plus speed/ Uh huh/ with a plus 2 dagger from the tomb of horrors D&D/ We cave heads in with a brick
We do/ we fuck hotties with the same dick/ we do/ We eat power lines and generators/ we do/ One time we shut Detroit city out for like 11 hours
we the wickedest belive that/ we do/ Stevie Wonder Bra can see that/ shit he do/ We'll rip your head off
swing it by the hair until we get blood everywhere/ mudda fucker getcha wicked on!
We know you hate who we are; but even in Shangri-La a wicked clown gotta get they WICKED ON!
JD the Weed Man with the Juggalo Crip Walk
We know you hate who we are; but even in Shangri-La a wicked clown gotta get they WICKED ON!
I'll drive tank through your highschool/ he does/ i let the carnival high rule/ he does/ i get
sick like a crime story/ he does/ motherfucker, this is the Shouthwest Side ghettoe territory/ I can
Make a fist with your neck in it/ he can/ I need my medication every 20 minutes/ he does/ I store
dead bodies all up under my house, and every night i hear 'em runnin' they mouth gettin' wicked on me
day-days on my black hearse/ we do/ clown love Juggalos first/ they do/ Red and black
skullcaps everywhere, with the freash face paint contacts and the Twiztid hair/ we find peace at the
graveyard/ we do/ me and the wraith sit and play cards/ they do/ so move out of our
way. and get out of my path, or we'll saw your head in half/ motherfucker, getcha wicked on!

(Violent J & Shaggy 2 Dope):

Well hello, boys and girls, c'mon in see the show
It's the mystical, magical, great Dark Carnival
Don't bother looking for parking, get rid of it
It ain't like you ever coming back, you fuckin' idiot!
The Carnival emerges only when you about to die
Now muthafucker you are dead in the sky
So come and put your soul around the Murder Go Round
And we'll strap you down, and swing you into oblivion

I gotta spike for your neck with my ninja blowgun
I be thy Juggalada Don Dada Lada Shogun
I swings my sword down and split you in two
Before you even fall, I bitch smack both of you
Welcome to our Carnival, 50,000 Juggalos
Freaks and weirdos, and killers at our shows
I'm just glad we down with 'em, hate to be y'all
And have a Juggalo shatter my skull, for thy Carnival

Carney: Hurry up, show's startin'!

Random Patron: Man, I can't believe they still having
it, I better get my butt in there right now!

Thy Ring Leader:
Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to the sensational and amazing Carnival of Carnage!
They said it wouldn't happen, they said it wouldn't last
But boys and girls and everyone we got a carnival for that ass
Tens of thousands of freak sideshows and fools
A carnival who together has lived by their own rules!

(Shaggy 2 Dope):
We looked into thy stars, foretold everyone
somethin' dark and wicked this way comes.
We told of oddities, crawling from the dark
and a carnival which we can all belong!
I dwell upon thy streets, and I can tell you this
I see some circus Juggalo shit goin' on.
People drawn together, by rare and scrubby music,
and we even gather once a year to PUT IT DOWN!

(Chorus):
With tilt-a-whirls and merry-goes,
and carnivals of Faygo,
we're just tryin' to tell you all about the light, right.
Now all the Joker Cards have fallen with spectacular array
so when the Wraith is callin', walk into the light, right.

(Violent J):
I hold a bloody axe, dress in hatchet red,
we speak languages people don't understand.
I send Faygos via punt it clear across the stadium
in fashion only fuckin' Juggalos could ever demand!
I got ninjas in my backyard wearin' Anybody Killa paint,
and I'm thinkin' what the fuck is goin' on? (What the fuck is goin' on)
Then I see the platinum on the wall and I realize the carnival's been right here all along
so let's bring it on!

(Chorus)

(Shaggy 2 Dope & Violent J):
Thy crows have overlooked, we gave you all they gave
Thy carousel will spin on through the night (Through the night!)
In Oz I'd be the wizard, because I'm overwhelmed
but we just hope the Joker Cards will point you out to the light,
So you'll be tight!

(Chorus)

It Rains Diamonds

SHAGGS 2 DOPE: Kill me! Whut! Mutha Facku! Murder Murder! Whut! I can't in' wait to die! Please murder my mother in' ass off! Bring it! Cause I'm going to Shangri-Leezy!

VIOLENT J AND SHAGGS 2 DOPE: Have you ever tried/to get the up out your hole but/fall right back inside/Once again denied. Have you ever seen/people turn into the devil/over money green/Tell me what it means. Have you ever been/to the wicked part of town and/would you go again/They don't want you in. Would you follow me/if I knew where it rains diamonds/no more poverty/As clean as we can be, yeah

CHORUS: It rains diamonds nightly, in my Shangri-La lit brightly, who could miss this so inviting? Come stand mountain top and yell!

SHAGGS 2 DOPE: Somebody stab my face or something! Kill me! What the a ninja gotta do around here to get his dead on?

VIOLENT J AND SHAGGS 2 DOPE: Do you like to drink/Would you a girl the day you met her/what you think/On the kitchen sink.

ANYBODY KILLA: Don't you fire it up?

SHAGGS 2 DOPE: Does this mean you wasted life now.

ANYBODY KILLA: You're completely ed?

ICP: I would differ some.

VIOLENT J AND SHAGGS 2 DOPE: Hold your hatchet high/'cause we're gonna need 'em when there's/fire in the sky/Together we will die. I can promise this/in my Shangri-La you'll have/enternal happiness/diamonds in the mist.

CHORUS

JUMPSTEADY: Diamonds drift upon the mist of forgetfulness, bringing a peace untold, as I fade away to become what my eyes see, seeing into the eternity of Shangri-La!

CHORUS


Bitch Slappaz (Hidden Track)

VIOLENT J AND BLAZE YA DEAD HOMIE: Take it back now. Come on, come on! Bitch slap till the break of dawn. ICP! BLAZE YA DEAD HOMIE! Bitch slap till the early morn'.

VIOLENT J: Six in the morning police at my door, already gotta slap some more. Stuck my hand out the mail shoot, bitch slap sergeant and first recruit.

BLAZE YA DEAD HOMIE: I came out the ass bitch slap some, gradeschool, highschool, bitch slap with guns. I remember gettin baptized by the reverand, I bitch slapped the bible out of his hand.

VIOLENT J: The bitch slap master up in the place, I bitch slap your train-wrecked face. Dont assume friendlyness with fame, I bitch slap the sound out ya name. Don't call ya, 'cause ya not here, bitch slap out the stratesphere. Mike P. did the track, he bitch slapped, pop formats straight to the back.

BLAZE YA DEAD HOMIE: Don't let me show up on TRL, I'm bitch slappin' everybody to hell. I'm down with the clown, East Side till I'm gone, everybody singin' that Southwest song.

VIOLENT J: I bitch slap wigs off, everyday, I bitch slap old ladies out of my way. Southwest Side, bitch slap capitol, every bitch made mo- ers smack 'em. For our bitch slap victims, I don't care, I bitch slap cowlicks into your hair. Faygo in a pillow case, don't manage, I'll bitch slap your head, brain damage.

BLAZE YA DEAD HOMIE: I'll bitch slap cheeks , s off, I been known to slap a mutha as pants off. I bitch slap planes out of the sky, I bitch slap truth out of a lie.

SHAGGS 2 DOPE: Call me Shaggy Spinic Slappor, I bitch slap mo- ers galore. Saying we fake, wanna test the rep., step your ass on up and get bitch slapped.

CHORUS: Wut you call a crew that be smackin' like that? Wicked! Insane Clown smack your ass to the back.

VIOLENT J: Speakin' of smackin', it's making me sick, everybody's talkin' that smackin' shit. Sayin' they smackin' with the ICP,

BLAZE YA DEAD HOMIE: Just 'cause I am they wanna be like me. (WHAT?)

VIOLENT J, SHAGGS 2 DOPE AND BLAZE YA DEAD HOMIE: Talkin' that shit, you need to leave the place, knowing you never even smacked a face. Claiming our shit, that's our shit you trash, mutha er, we about to smack your ass.