ARTISTS

AXE MURDER BOYS:

The Axe Murder Boyz are a product of Psychopathics own version of a "Reality" show, except of course it was never aired on television or the radio. It was done online and live.

In 2005 Psychopathic records announced a new project to the Juggalo community. It was a contest called "Underground Psychos", which gave underground rap artists the chance at a record deal with Psychopathic, an album put out in stores across the globe, full promotion, photo shoots, and virtually the chance to become a part of the Psychopathic family.

Each week for three weeks participants broken down into 3 groups of 10 would battle it out spitting their lyrics along with the other 9 contestants in a series of events and voting. Voting at this time was done by Psychopathic artists. Each week the top three artists would advance on to the next week, until at the end of week three there were only nine rappers total left. Those top nine were requested to release a new track, and the judges voted on their favorite. After that round of voting, the artists were then narrowed down to the top five. The five left would then move on to round four which was a live performance at the St. Andrews Hall in Detroit Michigan on the 27 of June 2005. During this round the voting narrowed it down to two participants. The Axe Murder Boyz, and The Playaz Lounge Crew.

From this round, they two groups moved on to perform at The Sixth Annual Gathering of the Juggalos. The winner would be decided by all the Juggalos in attendance, who were all given one Underground Psychos Coin. After the performance, each person put their coin in a box devoted to their favorite artist, and the artist with the most coins (votes) in his box was the winner of the Underground Psychos Contest. The artist that walked away as the new Psychopathic Records artist was the Axe Murder Boyz (AMB).

The Underground Psychos contest was not AMB's first taste of performing however. They have been in the music game since at least 1999 and perhaps longer. They are said to be "Two brothers bound by blood and their love of music." Rapping under the names Bonez Dubb and Otis they have their own brand of horrorcore rap. The two man team comprised all their energies, and forged a path through the underground scene until they became veterans of the music game.

They started their own independent label named Axe Recordings and produced and commercially put out at least four albums/Samplers under it. The list under Axe Recording is, but not limited to the following: Galaxy Sampler, Down Low EP, Tha Underground Stylystiks Compilation Album Vol. 1, The Unforgiven Forest Sampler, and The Unforgiven Forest Sampler (Green).

With an apparent dedication to their music and exhausting efforts in marketing it, they grew quite a reputation in the underground rap scene in their home town of Denver, Colorado. Their music didn't stop there however, they refused to let it. To support their records they ran their own regional tours to promote and their popularity grew throughout the entire U.S. and other countries as well. Germany and Australia to name a few.

After a lot of hard work and perfecting their music and professional skills their fame grew more, and their success grew along with it. Others started to notice AMB's talent and eventually they shut down Axe Recording and signed with Longrange Distribution, who has the record label Canonize Records. Once they were with Canonize records they signed to a four record contract, and the album "The Unforgiven Forest" was the first album to come out of the deal. This album includes a track by The R.O.C who was a member of House Of Krazeez. Other albums/samplers that came out under Canonize are but not limited to, Snippet Sampler, Vampires (live album), and Underdogz EP.

They had spent a year promoting "The Unforgiven Forest" when the Underground Psychos contest was announced. After the contest was all said and done with AMB reigning as the winners, Psychopathic wasted no time in getting them out amongst the fans. They hit the road with ICP for the Hallowicked mini tour just a few months after they claimed their stake in the Psychopathic family. Other artists that joined up for the Hallowicked shows were Vanilla Ice, Project Deadman and Mike E. Clark. Just a couple of months after Hallowicked AMB played at the Big Balla Christmas party as well, with other assorted Psychopathic artists.

Their tracks are fresh and definitely have the Psychopathic trademark feel. It is said that they have an enormous stage presence with the energy of a dozen men.

The beginning of 2006 saw them working on their first Psychopathic released album, and in February they were slated to do a music video located in Denver and Detroit, but as of yet we haven't heard anything else on that.

A few months later on the 16 of March insaneclownposse.com announced that the first single off of the album was up for download. The album is to be called "Blood In, Blood Out," and the first single was called "Scream My Name," and was produced by Mike E. Clark and Shaggy 2 Dope. On the 24 of March their official Psychopathic web site was finally up for the ninjas to peek at. Available off the fresh new website is another single for download, "Still Alive."

AMB will be once more hitting the road. This time with Shaggy 2 Dope for his Fuck The Fuck Off! Tour. Joining them will also be Blaze Ya' Dead Homie and Subnoize Souljaz. The tour is scheduled from March to the beginning of May of this year.

Coming strong with hard beats and raw lyrics Bonez Dubb and Otis spare the listener not an ounce. Many people were doubtful when it was announced that AMB was the new Psychopathic addition, but it is becoming more and more apparent that they are where they belong. Their music is controversial, cutting, hard, and fast. They have a message or two to deliver, and are not going to hold anything back to get their point across to the world. This is something Juggalos have come to love and expect from Psychopathic artists, and AMB is going to keep carrying the axe we wish to grind, Psychopathic style.

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BLAZE YA DEAD HOMIE:

Chris Rouleau or Blaze Ya' Dead Homie as we know him best, first started his music career in the Detroit underground. He first started rapping when he was only seventeen years old. He started spittin’ rhymes for his school friends, and soon he was doing local shows where his extreme talent quickly built him up a reputation. This was in the early 90's and a lot of people were shocked at this white boy who could spit raps so hard. When he began rapping he rapped locally under the name "Sandman."

His first major show was opening up for the House of Krazees along with a homie of his Jaime Lowery (who later became to be that killer we all love ABK).

He started off in a two man rap group called 2 Krazy Devils where he rapped under the name Psycho C, and his partner was a man called Krazie who later became known as Skrapz. Together they made an album called "Flipped Insanity." Production was done by ROC (House of Krazees) and features House of Krazees, a group that consisted of ROC, as well as Hektik and Mr. Bonez (Monoxide and Madrox of Twiztid), and included a song where Psycho C (Blaze) is dissing on ICP. This album was never officially released.

2 Krazy Devils did not make it too far into the scene, and eventually they became knows as The Sleepwalkaz instead. The name change did them no good, things still were just not happening for them.

Back in those days, Blaze was good friends with the members of the group House Of Krazees. Later he would get together with Hektik and Mr. Bonez and work on a side project call Infamous Superstars Incorporated (ISI). A release from ISI never came, although a lot of the material could later be found on early Psychopathic Twiztid releases.

House of Krazees eventually broke up and Psychopathic immediately signed Hektik and Mr. Bonez under the label. They became known as Twiztid, Jamie Madrox and The Monoxide Child. After Madrox and Monoxide joined up with Psychopathic, they still kept in contact with Blaze. They urged Psychopathic to look into him as a possible new Psychopathic artist. Finally ICP brought Chris in, and they were impressed with him.

He began his Psychopathic career as a road dog. Just a regular employee he helped out in many different things from the road to the office. He headed up street teams and helped promote albums. He was with ICP as part of the road crew when they did their performance at Woodstock '99.

The next year he helped out with Twiztid and was finally able to really show everyone what he was worth on the stage. Psychopathic then really became interested in getting his show on the road.

So began the beginning of the end of his life.

Violent J and Chris collaborated and came up with the name Blaze Ya' Dead Homie, and Psychopathic made him a phony background. The story they made was that he was shot by a rival gang member after a concert in Detroit back in the 80's. After eleven years of being dead the members of Dark Lotus brought him back from the dead.

Blaze's first song under Psychopathic was the song "Hound Dogs" on Twiztid's "Mostasteless." Blaze also became a member of the Psychopathic Ryda's which was a side project of Psychopathic. The Ryda's were a six man rap group featuring other Psychopathic members, each with a gangster alias. Blaze rapped as Cell Block. The beats the Ryda's rapped to were all stolen from other rappers.

Blaze then had a track on Twiztid's Cryptic Collection Vol. 1. The track was "Put It Down" and was later also on his own debut album from Psychopathic. The first Psychopathic Ryda's album was released in 2000 and it was called "Dumpin".

Just a few months later his debut self titled EP album was released, and did not do well. One of the reasons for it's lack of popularity, was that it was given very little promotion by Psychopathic. It is said that they did little to promote this album, and very few Juggalos knew of it's release. However, those who did hear it loved it because it became a popular album later on.

After the release of the EP Blaze toured with Twiztid’s Rock the Dead Tour opening for them and his fan base grew. It is said though that Alex Abbiss (President of Psychopathic) wasn't impressed with how Blaze was doing, and decided that his time with Psychopathic had passed. Shortly after that announcement though, Blaze had returned to Psychopathic and not only was he back on the label, but he was part of the new group Dark Lotus which was comprised of other Psychopathic artists. You will remember that Dark Lotus is supposed to be the group who brought Chris Rouleau back from the dead when he became Blaze Ya' Dead Homie.

After Blaze's return from his short absence, he appeared on several tracks off of Twiztid's "Freek Show" which was their second Psychopathic release. Later after that he went on tour with Twiztid for the Freek Show tour, and opened many of the shows.

After the Freek Show tour, he opened the entire second half of ICP's Bizzar Bizaar tour. Later after the Bizzar Bizaar tour, the final member of Dark Lotus was finally found, so then he hit the studio with the rest of the Lotus petals to finish up the debut Dark Lotus album which was to be called "Tales From The Lotus Pod" which was released in July 2001.

It was just a few days later that the second Psychopathic Ryda's album was released. "Ryden’ Dirtay" was the name of it, and along with "Tales From The Lotus Pod," they brought Blaze a whole new wave of fame.

Once Blaze was in good with the Psychopathic family he started suggesting that ICP check out his friend Jaymo, who at that time was rapping as Native Funk. They brought Jaymo in, liked him and agreed to allow him to be Blaze's hype man. Jaymo became The Anybody Killa' (ABK) and was with Blaze through all of his live performances at that time.

It was October of 2001 when his first full length album and second Psychopathic album was released called "1 Less G N Da Hood" ABK was featured on many of the tracks. Afterward ABK was eventually signed to Psychopathic.

Blaze hit the Hatchet Rizing tour with ABK by his side, and the two tore it up. The whole tour over all was wicked fresh, as it featured the entire Psychopathic family together, something we don't get to see a lot. During the Hatchet Rizing tour, "1 Less G N Da Hood" was released, and it went over much better than his first album had. It definitely was promoted more, and Blaze was also now on everyone’s tongue. He had succeeded in sliding into the Juggalo world, and he was there to stay.

Blaze then hit the road again for Twiztid's Mirror Mirror Tour. Along with him was ABK, and a new Psychopathic band called Zug Izland. Blaze also did a song on the Twiztid album "Mirror Mirror" on a track called "4 Those of U."

Blaze joined ABK in the studio for ABK's first Psychopathic release "Hatchet Warrior" in 2003 and was featured on quite a few of the tracks off of his friends new album.

He hit the studio with ICP for the recording of the sixth Jokers card ("The Wraith-Shangri-La" 2004) and had the honor of rapping on it in the song "Bitch Slappaz" which is found on the second half of the track called "It Rains Diamonds." He then went on to tour with Bone Thugs N Harmony opening along with Esham for the Take Me Home Tour.

A little while later in 2003, Blaze announced through Twiztid's website that he would be taking an "extended leave of absence from the rap industry and that his future with Psychopathic and in music in general was unsure."
At the time of his announcement he had most of his next album recorded entitled "Colton Grundy The Undying" but he had chosen not to finish it at the time, and for now it would remain unreleased.

He told fans that the 2003 Gathering Of The Juggalos would be his last performance. He insisted that he was not retiring from rapping, only taking a break. He performed at the gathering, and nothing was heard of again until a few months later when Twiztid put on their first annual Fright Fest. It was said that he would be performing with Twiztid during this, and it proved to be true and in addition to the performance, he was also featured on the EP that was given to all fans in attendance.

A bit later the album "Psychopathics From Outer Space Vol. 2" was released and included was two new songs off of Blaze's unfinished album "Colton Grundy Thy Undying." He was also included on a few other Psychopathic tracks, one with Dark Lotus, as well as a track called "Free Studio."

All of this had the Juggalos speculating about the return of their favorite dead homie. The speculations proved true when after the release of "Psychopathics From Outer Space Vol. 2" Blaze once more made an announcement on Twiztid's website. This time it was about his return, and the release of "Colton Grundy Tha Undying". Afterward Blaze appeared in Dark Lotus' second album called "Black Rain", and "Colton Grundy Tha Undying" was released in October 2004.

"Colton Grundy" was Blaze's most successful album to date, and is still a big seller today.

2005 brought a new side project for Blaze. Along with ABK the two hooked it up in the studio for a new group they named "Drive By" and they put out one release called "Pony Down." The new Drive By group was aimed towards the old school sound with the hard beats and raps along with the classic bass tracks like back in the day. The future of this group is now unknown; ABK is no longer a Psychopathic artist as he left the label in early 2006. "Pony Down" may be the only release we see from Drive By.

In 2006 you can hear Blaze spitting raps into your lobes as you are playing "25 To Life" which is a Eidos Interactive game in which Blaze contributed two tracks. They are "Shot-Gun" off of "Colton Grundy" and the other one of which is a "25 To Life" exclusive and is entitled "Look Out!". Other artists that will also be on the soundtrack include Tupac, Public Enemy, DMX, The Geto Boys, and Tech N9ne.

Also in June 2006 the re-issue of "1 Less G N Da Hood" will be released which will also include his first self titled EP tracks along with some newly unheard Blaze flavor.

Blaze is also hitting the road this year to tour with Shaggy for his Fuck The Fuck Off Tour from the end of March to May.

Blaze has also said on his website that a tour he himself would be headlining is in the works, and it is something he is looking forward to. It will be his first nationally headlined tour. In October 2006 look for the release of a new Blaze full length album. As Blaze himself said "2006 is the year of the Deadman and this you will soon see."

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BOONDOX:

Hyped up for months before he was shown to the world, Boondox gave Psychopathic Records a new sound like Juggalos have never heard before.

Incorporating the sounds of the South into his raps, fans will hear a twang in his southern accent as well as in the banjo playing in the background. All of this together brings a pleasant song to the listener despite the maniacal lyrics. Rapping of southern things like Moonshine, the lakes, Georgia, and the general living of the people in the South, his lyrics are not far from the style of Psychopathic. They are in fact dead on and the just the way Juggalos crave.

His music brings to mind dirty horror. The kind of horror you find in movies that deal with setting more out in the country. Where the villains may be dirty, deformed, crazy, maniacal and out for blood.

Boondox was a surprise on the Juggalo world. ICP had told fans to expect a new artist soon and that was all that they would give. After a long wait, he went public with his website where everything on him so far could be found. There were pictures of him, which depicted a painted up man in the style of a scarecrow.

The website also included the first single we would hear from him entitled "They Pray With Snakes," a song about serpent handlers in religion. A short while later a video was available to download and watch. Also available was a sampler to his upcoming album, which came out in July of 2006. It was his debut Psychopathic release.

The album is called "The Harvest." It came out just days before the 2006 Gathering of the Juggalos where Boondox also had his first Psychopathic performance.

When fans saw his first performance they saw something new and different. On stage he is joined by a live drummer "Lil' Pig" as well as a live DJ.

Boondox apparently has a slight history with Psychopathic before being signed. It is said that he was a contestant on Psychopathic’s Underground Psycho contest in late 2005. Then he was perfoming as the artist Turncoat Dirty and sang the song "Oh So Dirty. "It is said that he flunked out of the first round but Violent J liked his style anyway and was later asked to work with Psychopathic. It is also said that he was previously part of a rap group called Southern Hustlas’ Inc.

He is currently working on a New Album to be released early 2007.

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DARK LOTUS:

Dark Lotus didn't drop on the world all at once. They slowly seeped songs into various albums by other Psychopathic artists before raining down on us entirely. The first song said to be the first Dark Lotus track ever was "Echoside" on ICP's "The Amazing Jeckel Brothers" album. Twiztid's albums "Freekshow" and "Cryptic Collection 2" included "Maniac Killer", and "The Drunken Ninja Master" which were also Dark Lotus' songs.

Then came the gathering of the Juggalos in 2001 where they decided to open the gates, and unleash themselves upon our collective mythology.

Originally made up of the members of ICP and Twiztid, and later to include Blaze Ya' Dead Homie(who left Dark Lotus once, was replaced by Esham, and then a short while later came back to take his place back from Esham)before Dark Lotus officially dropped down on us the rest of the lineup was unclear. Professional Wrestler Vampiro appears on the track "Maniac Killer." "The Drunken Ninja Master" has an appearance by The Anybody Killa'.

The final group that performed at the gathering were all the members of ICP and Twiztid, along with Blaze and a new unknown rapper. Marz had gotten in good with ICP during the Bizzar/Bizaar tour and was later asked to join up with Dark Lotus.

Costumed in dark robes and a new style of face paint these six Children of the Lotus, or petals as they are called, pulled in the talents from many Psychopathic artists (and someone new) to bring fresh new tracks to the Juggalos.

Fresh and new they were. The six told tales like no other of spiritualism, sexual pleasures, love within the Juggalo family, all sinisterly laced with dark humor and serenity. Bringing in sources from the bible, Egyptian hieroglyphics and ancient folklore, Dark Lotus warned Juggalos of the crumbling of time itself.

Juggalos all over were blown away by this new sound. Darker, even more wicked than ever before. The stuff Juggalos demand and we were not left disappointed.

Dark Lotus' debut performance at The Gathering of Juggalos coincided with the release of their first, long awaited CD. Black cover with a large red cross on the front, the inside booklet has a picture of glowing pyramids, and some Juggalos believe that it is no coincidence that the album "The Great Milenko" also had pictures of pyramids in it, and because of this it is believed that Dark Lotus was in the making longer then we realized.

Entitled "Tales From The Lotus Pod" this full length album was made up of sixteen mind-blowing untitled tracks with grotesque sound effects, barely audible talking in the background and backwards messages to bring an element of horror to this new style of horrorcore rap.

The lyrics are split up equally, with each artist spitting his part with his own unique style and they all mesh together perfectly. Within a few of the songs can be found lyrics from old Esham songs, and also within this album is one of the most beloved song to Juggalos: "Juggalo Family," whose lyrics essentially say that a Juggalo will never be alone, that he will always have his Juggalo family. This song has a very special place with the Juggalos and contributes to the perfection of the album.

Dark Lotus's debut at the Gathering was also Marz' first and only appearance with Dark Lotus and everyone of the Psychopathic family. He soon thereafter quit or was given the boot. After Marz was gone, Dark Lotus brought in ABK to permanently fill in. He became the new sixth member of the Lotus, and was sent to the studio to redo Marz's verses for the re-release of "Tales from the Lotus Pod." This version is exactly the same except it has ABK dubbed over Marz, and has a gold cross on the front cover instead of the original red one. The original red album with Marz had only 80,000 copies pressed, and once they sold out of those they shipped out the new gold ones with ABK.

In 2004 came the follow-up album entitled "Black Rain" which is thought by many to not be as dark as "Tales From The Lotus Pod", but was still a major hit with the fans. With enticing lyrics and more complex raps, on first hearing you can sense how far the group has come together and grown.

One thing that is particularly amazing about Dark Lotus is the fact that the artists are not trying to compete with each other; they don't make it into a battle and try to out do each other, you can feel that each individual artist is striving to rap in a way that makes the group sound better, not just themselves personally. It's especially amazing considering the fact that this is a six man group.

In February of 2006 it was sadly announced that ABK was leaving Psychopathic Records due to contract conflicts. This of course means that Dark Lotus is now once more down another member and it is unknown as of yet who, if anyone, is going to replace him in the group.

It seems that the departure of ABK will not stop Dark Lotus from dropping back on us again with new and fresher sounds.

Dark Lotus isn't around all the time but when they return from their disappearances, the flavour they bring is devastatingly delicious.

The rest of course is just purely speculation...

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JUMPSTEADY:

Jumpsteady has been with Psychopathic Records since day one. In fact he was there before Psychopathic due to the fact the he and Violent J are brothers. Jumpsteady even sent Violent J money to help out with his career back in the day when Violent J was still struggling to rise up.
At that time, Jumpsteady (Rob Bruce) was serving the U.S. Army in Operation Desert Storm in the early 90's.

When he came back from Desert Storm he joined up with his brother, and helped out Psychopathic Records. He was placed as one of the Chief members. Jumpsteady has been more of the behind the scenes ninja for Psychopathic. The first song he was featured on was ICP's "Taste" off of the very first jokers card "Carnival Of Carnage" which came out in 1992. A lot of the lyrics he spit on that track were political, he apparently has some strong feelings of the government today.

After "Carnival Of Carnage" Rob's rapping was not much heard of until 1996 when ICP put out their "Tunnel of Love" EP, and there was an advertisement for a upcoming Jumpsteady album called "Chaos Theory." After the announcement of the upcoming release of "Chaos Theory" it wasn't again mentioned for a number of years.

It is said that Jumpsteady finally hit the studio for his solo album because he felt that he had broken a promise the Juggalos, and now it was time to owe up to it. So finally in 2002, six years after it's first mention Psychopathic announced once again that "Chaos Theory" was on it's way soon.

The 19 of July 2002 marked the first day of the third annual Gathering Of The Juggalos, and amongst other surprises one of the biggest surprises was the release of Jumpsteady's "Chaos Theory". The CD was devastating and was an immediate hit with the Juggalos. Co-Written by Jamie Madrox (Twiztid) there were many other artists featured on the album including ICP, Twiztid, ABK, Blaze, Syn of Zug Izland, and the legendary Legz Diamond. Also featured on the album was Rob's very own young daughter Samantha. The loudest complaint about the album was that it was only a EP, and Juggalos were disappointed at such a short album after waiting so long.

Although Jumpsteady's album took so long until it was finally released at the Gathering, Jumpsteady was still doing a little rapping here and there. Mostly on album's of ICP, he was featured on many tracks throughout the years before his debut album. There is even a track on ICP's "Forgotten Freshness Vol. 3" called "Take Me Home" that Jumpsteady and Violent J rap with their mom (Linda), Rob's wife (Nancy, who happens to be the sister of longtime Psychopathic friend Myzery who was also once signed under them), Robs daughter Samantha, and their sister Kris.

After the release of "Chaos Theory" he could be found touring with many Psychopathic artists, opening, and appearing as a special guest. His first full set took place at the Gathering in 2003 where took the stage as the first performer on the first day of the gathering. He finished up his set with a grand finale of "Sammy's Song" where he brought his daughter out onto the stage to perform along side him. It was at this gathering the Rob announced the release of his second (and probably last) album.

This time Juggalos didn't have to wait nearly as long. His second album "Master Of The Flying Guillotine" was released in February 2005. This was a full length album this time and featured amongst other, Violent J, Delusional, Samantha, and the return of Myzery.

His last tour was the Psychopathic Hatchet All Stars tour, where he opened for Esham, Blaze and ABK. Others that opened a long with him were Filthee Immigrants, and Drainage X. ICP and Twiztid made special appearances during this tour.

So you may wonder, what was Jumpsteady doing all the rest of the time? When Rob joined up with Psychopathic, he became one of the big guys in Psychopathic. He is a very busy ninja helping Psychopathic keep turning. He is largely in charge of the booking of tours, promoting music for the Psychopathic artists, the humongous task of organizing annual Gathering Of The Juggalos.

Jumpsteady was also a wrestler in JCW, and won the championship many times as the wrestler Evil Dead.

In 2000 he played a part in "Big Money Hustlas‘" a movie starring ICP and Twiztid and including many Psychopathic artists and friends.

In 2001 he and two other men, N-Cubed, and Tall Jess finally put the finishing touches on a game that took seven years in the making until they called it good. It was based off of a game that the Psychopathic group played when they were younger along with friends. It definitely came a long way since they were kids and it was in it's original notebook paper version. The game is called "Morton's List" and it was released at the Gathering Of The Juggalos in 2001.

In 2004 he launched a European branch of Psychopathic records dubbed Europathic. He was the CEO in overseas division until it was announced that they were not getting nearly as much out of it as they were putting in, so they would "go back to the drawing board" and deal with Europe at another time in the future.

Jumpsteady might not be a ninja you see in the public eye a lot, but that is because he is working his ass off to bring us a damn fresh time, and he always succeeds.

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