by Eric Pabon

Created on: May 12, 2010   Last Updated: May 13, 2010

Juggaloes Defined?

On Monday, September 14, 2009, Anthony Locascio was taken to out to the woods by his friends to allegedly buy some marijuana. When he got there, four of his friends, Jeffrey A. Gombert, Curtis T. Foose, Andrew A. Tutko, and Shane D. Roof, proceeded to beat him down with metal baseball bats, hitting him an alleged 80 times. He, of course, died. The assault was retribution for Locascio apparently snitching.

By all accounts, this should be the lead in to the story. Four alleged drug dealers, killing a fifth for violating a bizarre code of ethics adhered to by such a group. But, in true media fashion, Bram Teitelman, a writer for Noisecreep.com, decided to open his story with; “Following the murder last week of a Hazleton, Pa. man by four devotees of rap metal duo Insane Clown Posse”(Teitelman par.1).

I can’t help but wonder what their favorite music has to do with anything? This was a case of four drug dealers killing a fifth, what music they listened to should be irrelevant.

Unfortunately, I can’t decipher whether or not this clear cut bias by reporters is to over hype menial writing, or subconsciously done without malice. To be fair to the reporter, he does end his piece by adding that “N.J. Insane Clown Posse fan Bob Lugowe” (Teitelman par.6) claims that the “media…always choose to ignore the underlying positive message found throught [sic] ICP's lyrics.” (Teitelman par.6), but if I said, “your mother’s a whore.”, and then six paragraphs down, I added, “but your father doesn’t think so”, the damage to your mother’s reputation is still done.

Now, what should shock you more than anything is that I left out an important clue, this article I referred to was not about the murder, but a separate piece describing the fact that “Juggalos”, fans of the Insane Clown Posse, received gang classification in Monroe County.

One simple statement, taken out of context, and I have sullied Mr. Teitelman’s reputation. It’s okay though, he has sullied mine - I’m a Juggalo - but by the end of my piece, I will apologize to him for it. But not till the end. Right now, I’m more concerned with this gang classification.

So what is a Juggalo?

Well, according to a press release from the Psychopathic Records public relations department;

“Only a "true" juggalo can answer that, but as stated previously, there are no requirements to being a

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