Violent J, half of the music circus best known as the Insane Clown Posse, says the band’s tour days are over. Talking to a crowd of fans this year Meeting of the Juggalos, Violent J revealed it the group’s next tour would be the last due to their heart problems. However, this would not stop them from making music or doing one-off shows every month. So rest assured, you haven’t heard the latest from the Insane Clown Posse.
“No one escapes the trials and tribulations of being human,” said Violent J. “That doesn’t mean anything like me. die or nothing like that. It just means we can’t do things the same way we used to. So I really don’t want to announce it, but we do really he can not walk our path they were on tour. They went to take another tour next year, around the world. They went to go to all the major U.S. markets and outperform the markets. And then we will go to Europe, Canada and Australia, but it will be a slow tour. It will only do so be like three or four shows a week, and it will be a farewell tour “.
“I want to make it clear, make sure the music isn’t affected in any way, shape or form by anything that happens to Shaggy or me for health,” Violent J. said.
The 49-year-old rapper revealed the severity of his heart condition to the crowd, saying he had “heart failure”. After feeling “alert” from the 40-yard walk between home and studio, Violent J said so he went to the hospital. “They did an ultrasound. The lady looking me in the heart, we could tell she was doing something, but she wasn’t a doctor. It is understandable that all the doctors were tied up on the top floor of the hospital. She told me, “They want you to come straight home, put you to bed and they’ll call you early in the morning.” In his follow-up, he continued, “They grabbed my back and shit, and they basically just came out and told me I had heart failure. That scared the shit out of me.”
It is understandable that the news was heartbreaking to both the members of the Posse and their loyal followers, the Juggalos. However, Violent J continued to design all the ways the group would keep in touch with their community:and, man, they have been successful community builders. Instead, the group will focus on new Patreon exclusives, new music, and the aforementioned one-off shows. This also doesn’t seem like the end of The Gathering Of The Juggalos, the ICP’s annual extravaganza.
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According to Violent J, he and Shaggy 2 Dope have been touring twice a year for the last 25. That’s a lot of Faygo. But to Violent J, we send him a heart “scream whoop ”and we hope for the best in his health problems.
[via Rolling Stone]