The Great Milenko

The fourth studio album by Southwest Detroit rap group Insane Clown Posse The fourth of the original six Joker's Card albums This album was originally released by Hollywood Records on June 24th, 1997. After complaints about the album's content it was removed from store shelves that same day and ICP's contract was terminated by the record company. Soon after that they signed with Island Records which agreed to re-release the album a few weeks later. The Great Milenko was released in four colors: red, green, purple, and gold. Certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). All music programmed, engineered and mixed by Mike E. Clark at The Fun House in Detroit, Michigan except "Halls of Illusions" and "Great Milenko" mixed at A&M Studios in Los Angeles by Mike E. Clark. Additional vocals on "Hellaloujah," "Pass Me Bye," "Down With The Clown" and "House Of Horrors" performed by Legs Diamond at The Fun House in Detroit. Vocals on "Intro" performed by Alice Cooper at Phase Four Studios in Phoenix, Arizona. Recorded by Pat Amore. Additional vocals on "Intro", "Hocus Pokus" and "House Of Horrors" performed by Deb Agoli at The Fun House in Detroit. Additional guitar on "Piggy Pie," "Hellaloujah," "Halls Of Illusions," "House Of Horrors," "How Many Times" and "Pass Me Bye" played by Legs Diamond at The Fun House in Detroit. Additional guitar on "Halls Of Illusions" played by Slash at A&M Studios in Los Angeles. Additional guitar on "Piggy Pie" played by Steve Jones at A&M Studios in Los Angeles. Assistant Engineer at A&M Studios: John Srebalus Album edited and sequenced by John Polito at Audio Mechanics in Los Angeles. Mastered by "Big Bass" Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Los Angeles. Slash appears courtesy of Geffen Records Steve Jones appears courtesy of Jersey Records Legs Diamond appears courtesy of Psychopathic Records _______________________________________________________________________________ [The following text appears in the album's inserts] [PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT] the Great Milenko From deep within the Netherlands of shadow walkers comes yet another exhibit of the Dark Carnival. He is the master of the art of using magic without magic. He is a Necromaster...the craft of using magic through the dead. Dead meaning both physically and mentally. This spectacle shall be witnessed only by those who are meant to see it. Look deep inside of your soul and ask yourself... Do you hold a ticket to witness the show? The answer lies within yourself. He is the fourth to rise. He feeds upon one's own greed. He is powered by one's own jealousy, lust and temptation. To envision yourself with something that does not belong to you...that is the illusion cast by him. To act upon this vision and seek it out at the expense of another...that is the magic cast by him. Continuous dreamers of profit at the cost of another are pledged and haunted by his wizardry. Others are content and satisfied by what they can achieve by themselves and have not the urge to tamper with another's well being for quick gain. They see him only as a hoax and see no illusions or magic by he. It is simple...He is you. His illusions are your evil thoughts. Your evil acts are his magic - yesterday, now, and forever. You and he are the fourth to rise... You and he are the master of Necromesy... You the dead and him the magic. Together, you and he are The Great Milenko. Extra Special Clown Love Snaps To: God, for all that is everything and everything that is all. Lina & Ron, Donna & Roger, Sue and the family, Lady Beggis, Rob, Alex, Isaac, Cyrus, Samantha, Teresa & Tony, Michael, Daniel, Sarah, Amanda, Angela, Chris, Kari, Jamasa, and the following ninja families: Harwood, Abbiss, Bruce, Grober, Heyer, Dail, Williams, Clark, Murrel, and all our homies and their families. Everybody's in the house and we love all of you because you're all the shxt and we ain't shxt. Word. A Special Juggalo Love Snap Goes Out To: Julian and Dorrie Raymond, because you have magnified The Dark Carnival's message and exposed us to the world. For that, we cannot thank you enough. Plus the Wrestlemania hook-up was kind of fresh too. A Fat-Ass, Juggalo Love, Snippity Snap To: Our city, the city of Metro Detroit- full of the downest, craziest ninja ass juggalos in the world. Don't even come to Detroit unless you plan on some ninja in clown make up pulling you out of your car and busting your face on the hood for no reason. Props to the clowns towns- Cleveland, Flint, Toledo, Dallas, St. Louis, Chicago, Grand Rapids and Grass Lake, Iowa. Props Fatter Than Yoko Zuna's Ass To: Jump Steady, Double A, Nate The Mack...Billy Bill, Chucky Mutha Fucky, Dougie, Mini C, Doug Wolf, The Rude Boy (and family), Lay Low, Joe The Suburban Hustla, Deep Stephan 9, Lil' Doug, Tall Jess, Fink The East Side G, Joe The White Wizard, Rob 2, Jerry Vile, Epidous, Michael Wood FBI, Scott Guy and all the Polygram ninjas, Scott E. Liken, Dave Snow, Sue Sawyer, Dyana Kass, John Fagot and every last Hollywood Records ninja thatwas down with the Clown, and Mickey Mouse, special Juggalo love props to Island Records and everybody at our new home, Rock of Ages, Hot Hits Records, Orbit magazine, Leon in Arizona, Lindsey Feldman (nobody knows how we got so lucky to have you on our side, but we're glad we do), Bubba & Josh Felix, Dirty Dan, Chicks who let you hit it on the first night, Slash for coming down and whipping straight up voodoo on our shxt, Steve Jones for slapping some of your wicked rhythm on our shxt, Alice Cooper for plowing through a cold world alone with your own original style and leaving a path for all us other wannabe's to try and follow, Deb and Kim (thanks for all your help, you both are the atom bomb), Frank G., George Clinton, Jim Mitchell, Leif Garret, Bob Alford (our good friend), Bands that are the shxt... The Charm Farm (the freshest band from here to Neptune, with a quick stop for Faygo on Pluto) The Bumpin' Uglies (slappin' heads open with guitars), Rukkus, Drown (in the house Wesssiiyydde!) R.O.C. & The House Of Krazees, Jake The Flake, 20 Dead Flower Children, every last ninja in the Suicide Machines, Harms Way and the L.S.G.H. Clan, Esham (The Billionaire Bruce Wayne), Natas, Coup Detroit, Simken Heights, Awesome Dre, and tell everyone to shut the fxck up while you read this next band... The one and only Humble Gods!!! (Doug, Ricky Vodka, Lou Dog, Bianca, and "Johnny Mutha Fuckin' Bravo" Brad X in the haugh! Freida & Graham too! Suburban Noise Records), Terry B (what the fxck? how can I be down), Manhole, The West Coast Cotton Mouth Ninjas that are gonna get soooooo high!, The Wolf Pac homies in Philly, every ninja who ever came to our N.A.W. shows, rave ninjas, alternative rich chicks who let scrubby rap ninjas hit it, Vince and the crew at Creative Print (always having our backs when we most need it) Malcom Monroe, A.T. Huck and All at ICW, Ben "Redhorse" Rosenburge, Greg The Wolf, Tim The Wolf, Brian Henk (always cookin' up mad good-smellin' snacks at the studio), Jeremy Wolfy, Mr. Kabuki Man The Ninja from Bowling Green. A special "Fxck You!" to the Royal Oak Music Theater and it's bitch ass owner, the swiss chicks who we are down with forever... Vera and Denise, Spider and New York (fxck with us so we can watch them snap your scrawny little chicken neck), The chick from Letters To Cleo for letting Violent J hit it (an early thanks), ninjas who paint themselves up, come to our shows and punch each others faces to the music, Chris "Combone" Conley in Texas, Olivea (250), ...Jason "Tech Nerdy" Slaughter, Nathan, Wade, Allen, Ninjas who flash their brights when there is a cop ahead, Keith "Skelitor" Jex, Mandy from Romeo for staying down with the clown even though we suck now, Dave Feeny at the Tempermill, Andre Leblanc, (and family) Donny and Jane Chisholm (and family), Mandy Vandusen, Ed and Martha Quisenberry (and family), Chicks who let their best friend's boyfriend hit it, Man at large (who's currently at large), Joe "the Iron Ranger" Scott and Family, Javier Avila, Greez-E and Tone Capone our east side locs, Randy (the wolf sellout), Rob Van Dam and all our ninjas at E.C.W. in Philly, Thom Robinson, Karen Chita... We could never repay you for all that you've given' us...(so just forget about all that loot we owe you), Army Eric, ("The Brightmoor Brawler") Gary Arnett (thank you for hiding how wack we really are behind your incredible graphics), Dan Christie (for helping carve Milenko's image from the depths of wretched beyond), Ron Geddish (the ninja who's wisdom of the business has saved us so much trouble and gained us so many props... thank you), Laura Grabb, Dan Warner for all the fresh footage, John Young, Hoby, Ed C. Colver (for his incredible, invincible, indescribable ninja work), John Polito, Big Bass Brian, Sexy...Sexy...Sexy...Lisa (Killer ICP) Thanks for always being down, Chris "In the ha!" Panaki, Chicks who don't let you hit it right away but wash the pickle to hold you off, Alan Cope, and last but not least The Juggalos... The Real Juggalos...Fat Juggalos, Jail House Juggalos, Church Boy Juggalos, Droopy Tittied Juggalos, One Ball In The Nut Sac Juggalos, Loopy Fat Bald Head Juggalos, Jumpin' Jim Brunzel Juggalos, Juggernaut Juggalos, Jehova's Witness Juggalos and Jammin' Jealous Jelly Belly Jewish Fat Kid Juggalos... We could only be talking about the ICP fan club! Oh yeah that one kid from Kalamazoo who gave us that wrestling mask...him too. ...And that's it. -Shaggs, J, Legz and Mike E. Clark/ ICP -Dedicated To The Butterfly- JOIN THE ICP FAN CLUB, P.O. Box 332 Royal Oak, MI 48068-0332 It's Absolutely Free, Open to the public, and easy access (just like your mom) VISIT THE ICP WEBSITE AT wwwdotinsaneclownpossedotcom THEIR WILL BE SIX FACES OF THE DARK CARNIVAL AFTER ALL SIX HAVE RISEN, THE END WILL CONSUME US ALL. Island Records, Inc., a PolyGram Company 825 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10019. Ⓟ©1997 Island Records, Inc. Printed in the U.S.A.