juggalo

According to Shaggy, "Juggalos come from all walks of life. It don't matter if you're born with a silver spoon or a crack rock in your mouth." Characteristics of a member in the Juggalo subculture are: Drinking & spraying Faygo. Listening to horrorcore & underground music. Wearing face paint, usually like a clown. A Hatchet man on personal effects, tattooed or on jewelry. Displaying the gesture of "wicked clown" (westside sign with the left hand and the C sign with the right) & yelling whoop whoop! The lyrics of songs produced by Psychopathic Records, often violent, are viewed as a catharsis for aggression. Juggalo culture originated in the 80s, when Violent J & his family were living in poverty. Recieving their clothes from rummage sales & food from drives held at their school. Due to their poverty, they were the brunt of jokes in school. However, they embraced it instead of being ashamed. He named themselves "Floobs". According to Violent J, a Floob is a scrub who turned their scrubbiness into something to be proud of. Though he only called his brother & himself Floobs, he alludes to other Floobs whom he hadn't met or known of living the same way; the respect that Floobs had for each other & family-like embrace of likewise people influenced the philosophy held among Juggalos.