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Name: Mike E. Clark
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Bio: Mike E. Clark may be most famous for his work with ICP for over a decade, but he's been around longer than that, producing for the likes of George Clinton, Kid Rock, and Esham. He started out in the 80's working at a studio called The Disc in Michigan and later gained enough success to build his own recording palace, called the Funhouse Studio.
He produced the Kid Rock song "Yodelin' In The Valley", which ended up being Kid Rock's first ever hit song. It was around this time he was approached by ICP to do some production work on their album Carnival of Carnage. After being snaked by another producer, ICP was amazed at Mike's abilities and forged a relationship that would last for almost a decade.
In that time, Mike perfected his craft even more, doing outside-Psychopathic production for George Clinton, Charm Farm, Primal Scream, and more, as well as releasing his own solo instrumental albums, which can be found here.
In 2001, Mike's relationship with ICP disentigrated over artistic differences, and although Mike later went on to produce a track for Twiztid, his relationship with Psychopathic pretty much ended there. Mike then set out on his most ambitions goal ever, to start his own record label. With acts like Dead By 28 and Abstrakt Intellekt, B4 Records got a little bit of attention, but it wasn't until Project: Deadman was formed that B4 made a name for itself on the underground. Project: Deadman is a group consisting of Mike E. Clark doing production and some vocals along with rapper Prozak (formerly of Bedlam) being the main rapper. The album got them signed to Tech N9ne's Strange Music record label in 2004.
However, at the 2005 Gathering of the Juggalos, everything came full-circle when it was announced that ICP had reunited with Mike E. Clark for their upcoming album and many future projects ahead. The dynamic duo...err...Triple Threat is back together again!
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Name: Mike P. (Mike Puwal)
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Bio: Mike P originally became a part of Psychopathic Records when he was hired to build the new Lotus Pod studio at the Psychopathic offices. Over many months of tweaking everything for them, ICP became impressed with his skills and put him to the test producing a couple of songs that ended up being released on The Pendulum and Forgotten Freshness Vol. 3. Impressed with his work and having disagreements with Mike E. Clark, ICP brought Mike P aboard as a full time producer for the label.
It was around this time also that Violent J had visions of a rock group on Psychopathic. To make a long story short, that rock group would become known as Zug Izland and Mike P became the guitarist for the band. On top of handling production duties for most of the label, Mike P toured the nation with Zug Izland, releasing albums and doin' shows.
His production credits on Psychopathic have grown over the last couple of years, with no album on the list that the 6th Joker's Card itself, ICP's The Wraith.
In 2004, Zug Izland and Psychopathic Records parted ways. It is unknown at this time whether the departure will impact Mike P's work with Psychopathic, so I guess only time will tell.
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Name: Fritz The Cat
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Bio: Fritz Von Kosky is the real name of longtime Twiztid producer Fritz The Cat. Fritz got his start with a local band called The Regulars, playing bass for the group. After leaving them, he joined with a punk group called Morbid Fear followed by a local funkadelic group called Pete Moss & The Fungis.
It was over his years of working at a local Detroit studio called The Disc that he met up with Twiztid to do production on some of the early tracks in the ISI days of Twiztid and Blaze. When Twiztid released Mostasteless, it featured the production work of Fritz and that was when juggalos were first exposed to the thumping sounds of Fritz. He has continued to work on all of Twiztid's releases since, as well as doing work with Blaze, ABK, and ICP on occassion.
Otherwise, details on Fritz are pretty scarce, as well as a good picture of him, so if anyone has anything to add, send it in!
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Name: The R.O.C.
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Bio: One of the original members of the legendary House of Krazees, along with Monoxide and Madrox of Twiztid, ROC was always the skilled producer behind the group. Over the years, he has split his attention almost equally between rapping and producing, first with the House of Krazees and later with groups such as The Howse, Halfbreed with rapper Skrapz, and Level Jumpers with Skrapz and another rapper named F-R-EEZE, among others, while also forming his own record label, Virus Independant.
He just started doing production work for Psychopathic in 2003 after rebuilding a once-broken friendship with Twiztid. He is also going to be the 3rd member of the long-rumored Samhein Witch Killaz project along with Twiztid.
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Name: Lavel aka Shadow
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Bio: This former member of Detroit's own Krazy Klan (which also included ABK), Lavel has been a staple of the underground Detroit scene for years. He goes all the way back to the early Krazy Klan days before even HOK existed and the group consisted of a gaaaang of people. Over the years, everyone went their seperate ways and Lavel and ABK formed the Krazy Klan.
In 2000, ABK became affliated with Psychopathic and that was the end of that for them, but Lavel stayed doin' his thing, making his own albums and producing for a bunch of artists on the Detroit scene. A lot of people don't even know that Lavel co-produced "Maggot Face" and "Saturday Afternoon" from Blaze's 1 Less G N Da Hood album!
He's stayed tight with the Twiztid/Blaze/ABK side of Psychopathic over the years and has also become good friends with ICP as well. In 2002-2003, Lavel toured with Blaze as his hypeman under the name Shadow and did production work for many Psychopathic releases put out in 2004 and 2005.
Lavel later started rapping on Psychopathic albums, including becoming a full fledged member of the Soopa Villainz. It seemed he was pretty much officially signed to the label. But at the beginning of 2006, that all came crashing down and Lavel would later release an album dissing the fuck out of Psychopathic and ICP in general. So that's where the relationship ends.
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Name: Esham
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Bio: While Esham has been known as the Godfather of the Wicked Shit and has been known as a rapper for well over a decade now, not many people take into consideration his production skills. Esham was self-made from day 1, doing EVERY aspect of his albums by himself. Every Esham album EVER released has had most of it's beats made by him.
Years of running his own Reel Life Productions label and producing for himself and for his group Natas made it hard for Esham to do production work with other artists until the last few years, where he has been doing beats for Psychopathic Records, notably doing almost half of the beats for ICP's Hell's Pit.
In late 2005, Esham left Psychopathic Records to go work on a new Natas album at another label and later on began dissing ICP, thus ending the relationship.
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Name: Twiztid (Jamie Madrox and Monoxide)
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Bio: You gotta know who Twiztid is, come the fuck on! The first successful act signed to Psychopathic other than ICP, Twiztid earned their stripes with the House of Krazees and have been on Psychopathic Records since 1997. It was only around 2000 or so when they started actually doing production work though, first for Blaze's self titled debut EP and then more often for their own stuff as well. Although both rappers have been known to step behind the boards, Monoxide does so much more than Madrox. Alongside Fritz The Cat, they form the Systasyrosis Soundsquad and account for the majority of Twiztid's beats. Over the years, they have progressed quite a bit with their skills in the beatmaking department.
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Name: Insane Clown Posse
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Bio: Okay, so ICP's been around for a bit, probably tossing a hand in here or there for the production of this, but it wasn't until 2004 when they really started doing real production work. Violent J, known in the studio as "Dr. Punch", does a lot of production work on the side, "punching" buttons here and there and shit. Shaggy gets on the wheels of steel (turntables) and does some scratchin' and producin' here and there. Not much else to it.
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Name: Team Supreme
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Bio: Team Supreme consisted of 4 members, all of whom called The Lotus Pod home: ICP, Lavel, and Esham. Together, the four of them worked on a selection of Psychopathic albums that came out in 2005. Up until October of 2005, that is, when Esham abruptly left Psychopathic Records, putting the future of Team Supreme in doubt. Would they continue on with just three members or would Esham's departure mean the end of the group? Who knows, because shortly after, Lavel bounced also. Both Esham and Lavel would later diss the fuck out of ICP and thus, Team Supreme is definitely dead.
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Name: Polar Bear
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Bio: Very little is known about this mysterious Polar Bear fella other than he's some dude from out in L.A. somewhere and he's done a few songs here and there for Psychopathic artists lately. If you have any info on him...drop it off!
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Name: Seven
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Bio: Almost nothing is known about this new guy, except that he has worked previously with Tech N9ne, Juvenile, Twista, and more. He's also done music for the show "Boondocks" on Adult Swim and now, he's working with Twiztid on their forthcoming projects.
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