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Posted in music on August 31, 2011

Jack White produced Insane Clown Posse (and Mozart) backed by Jeff The Brotherhood for Third Man Records

Jack White

I'd expect a press release like this on April 1st, but alas, it did in fact come today (August 31). Here it is, in its entirety...

In the grand tradition of peanut butter meeting Iggy's chest or Bing Crosby getting down with David Bowie, Third Man Records is ecstatic to present the latest in a long-line of unexpected musical pairings...Insane Clown Posse and Mozart.

Back in '82, ahem, 1782, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote a piece that's been left out of the spotlight ever since. The title of the piece is "Leck Mich Im Arsch" or literally translated to English as "Lick me in the arse." Understandably this piece has figuratively been swept under the rug. So who better to give this piece it's due respect than the wildly successful, much misunderstood, and divisive Southwest Detroit rappers Insane Clown Posse?

With fellow Southwest Detroit-born Jack White at the production helm and musical backing by Nashville's very own Jeff the Brotherhood, this 2011 version of "Leck Mich Im Arsch" marries Mozart's melody (and lyrics sung in operatic German) with ICP's poignant lyrical addition in English and Jeff the B's monster-riffs, letting the whole thing tie together in the most beautiful of ways.

The b-side "Mountain Girl" finds Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope telling tall tales about a shotgun wedding, meth problems and moonshine...all pretty common-fare for a twangy country song birthed in Nashville.

The 7" single and iTunes digital download of "Leck Mich Im Arsch" will be available for sale on September 13th. One-hundred Tri-color versions of the single will be available from the Third Man Rolling Record Store at the MI Fest in Brooklyn, Michigan on September 17th and another 50 Tri-colors will be randomly inserted into mail orders dispatched by Third Man Records.
Weird but true. Video preview and full "song" stream below...

Tags: Insane Clown Posse, Jack White, Third Man Records
posted at 11:18 AM on August 31, 2011 in music | Comments (83)

Comments (83)

WELP

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 11:20 AM

We're just all going to collectively pretend we never read this. Moving on...

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 11:22 AM

Oh Jack Oh Jack what hath happened to you?

Posted by Anon | August 31, 2011 11:24 AM

brooklyn, michigan?! I thought brooklyn was only in NY....

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 11:27 AM

Hilarious! I'm so happy Jack White did this to really show he is happy to do whatever he wants and also to piss off his prissy indie rock fan-boys.

ICP still blows though...

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 11:29 AM

you know, i understand the novelty of wanting to do this, but you know jack white regretted this entire thing the second he got in the same room as ICP. as for JTB, they're too D-listers to be anything but excited about this probably

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 11:29 AM

I give Jack serious credit for this. Most people nowadays (ESPECIALLY BV COMMENTERS) are so fucking dogmatic about what music is supposedly cool/hip/credible... for him to do this is basically a way of saying "Fuck you and your uptight, shallow, pretensions"

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 11:33 AM

oops

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 11:33 AM

Jack White made better music than any hipster bands you kids listen to.....

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 11:37 AM

yeah but ICP still suck and Jack should know better...

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 11:37 AM

I worked at a fast food joint back in high school with a guy who was really into ICP (keep in mind this was the late-90s) and he would constantly play their albums on a ghettoblaster when we were closing. I have to say, some of their early stuff wasn't THAT bad. Chalk it up to impressionable youth maybe? Feel like the whole juggalo scene didn't do them any favors, but they probably don't give a shit because they're raking in the dough from all white trash losers. Anyway, maybe JW sees something in these clowns. At least he didn't bring in Odd Future...

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 11:38 AM

wow, jw is really losing it. say whatever you want to rationalize it, or call him awesome for having the 'balls' to do it, but this is fucking garbage.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 11:42 AM

Fingers crossed for Jack White - Eminem collaberation. D-Town what up?

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 11:45 AM

What ever happened to Jack White/Thom Yorke collaboration.....

Posted by Takk | August 31, 2011 11:51 AM

lol. Yep, the man is a genius. Seriously, Jack White is the motherfuckin' man.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 11:52 AM

better than the colbert song

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 11:53 AM

damn, are those polo slippers? I need them joints, pronto!

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 11:54 AM

Does this mean a white stripes reunion at next years gathering of the juggalos?

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 11:54 AM

Jack White in a coffin collaboration!!! Fingers crossed X

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:00 PM

Gathering Of The Jugallos: coming soon to Governor's Island.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:01 PM

JW is as pale as the white clown paint. Someone please Photoshop JW with ICP face paint!

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:05 PM

Jack White is such a massively overrated prick. That being said, ICP is sensationally underrated.

Posted by Ryan Gentles | August 31, 2011 12:05 PM

Go to hell Jack, this is a career ender. It isn't funny or cool, you're not putting out some big message about music today. You collaborated with ICP. Go spray some Faygo all over yourself and keep shitting yourself in the back corner of your van until you die.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:07 PM

Let the clown shit comments start...

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:08 PM

detroit stand up!

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:08 PM

Detroit shit down

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:09 PM

And loss of all respect for Jack White.
Bummer

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:11 PM

Y'all never knew that BV has always been down with tha clown!

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:15 PM

I'd be having the same mid-life crisis after losing Meg. So I understand Jack.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:15 PM

well, it's better than the james blake/bon iver collaboration

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:16 PM

12:16 FTW

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:21 PM

you'd have a midlife crisis too if you lost a set of tits like that in your life. you know meg white is a huge slut too...you just know it.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:23 PM

sounds like the judgement night soundtrack particularly the helmet/house of pain song.

Posted by pdiddy | August 31, 2011 12:26 PM

12:08 you said it...this I hate to admit it is clown sh*t!

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:27 PM

what's next? lou reed and metallica?

oh.. wait.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:28 PM

these clowns have taken a shit

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:35 PM

Jack White officially has too much money. Why troll your own fans?

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:38 PM

You know what collaboration would be awesome, Bjork and Whitehouse.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:38 PM

this is why karen divorced him...she heard it was happening and got OUT

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:40 PM

I've noticed that one thing Jack doesn't do well is humor.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:40 PM

jack white has always been clown shit

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:42 PM

Wait so he Nixed a track with Freeway, yet he did this??? Fo' Shame Mr. White!!

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:42 PM

What 11:29 and 11:33 (the 1st ones) said.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:43 PM

Third man records was already a joke before this. Their records are just for collectors...so many of them are tri-colored, limited edition, 13" or 8" or weird in some way or some press stunt (stephen colbert, conan, goth punk chicks)...Why can't you be cool Jack White? You like some good music? Why can't he just release a few good releases every year instead of flooding the vinyl market with dirty cheap gimmick products soon to be auctioned on ebay. It doesnt matter if its tri-tone vinyl if THE MUSIC IS SHIT! Fuck jack white for being another let-down, in this age of musical let-downs.

Posted by E | August 31, 2011 12:51 PM

^because jack white is clown shit, that's why

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:54 PM

Popular icons fail.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 12:58 PM

this really isn't as funny/cool as jack white thought it was going to be.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 1:02 PM

I like that Jack White painted his face white too for solidarity.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 1:15 PM

I would call this new group the PALE MUSKETEERS! Yeck!

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 1:22 PM

^white people, amirite?

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 1:38 PM

Brilliant.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 1:56 PM

JTB FTW

Posted by grg | August 31, 2011 2:05 PM

The sound of one shark jumping

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 2:08 PM

The sound of the shark jumper

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 2:09 PM

You guys are crazy! That track is cracker jack!

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 2:25 PM

When your piss and shit hits the bowl at the same time - that's what this sounds like.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 2:42 PM

Somehow, Bjork collaborating with pretty much anyone makes sense when you hear it. Jack White, ICP and Mozart!? is just a damn mess.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 2:47 PM

Sad. JTB, I lost a lot of respect for you dudes. WTF were you thinking with this bullshit.

JW, I haven't had a modicum of respect for you since 2001, fucking 10 years ago. Bring your dirty-ass blues riffs and your porn star ex-wife back.

ICP, I hope you both die a slow painful death. Same goes for your fucking cult of white-trash horse fuckers.

And Mozart...I know he's been dead for over 200 years, but that's no excuse. Motherfucker needs to haunt these assholes.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 2:50 PM

Jack can add 'professional troll' to his resume. Just took a look at the TMR page on FB and he's pissed off most of his fans. Mission Accomplished.

Posted by lopez | August 31, 2011 3:05 PM

Geez, lighten up everyone. The song is funny, and sure it's just a lark but it definitely got everyone's attention here. Jack White is clearly one of the best songwriters and musicians to emerge in the last decade so quit hating. It's exhausting.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 3:11 PM

^but if we don't hate, who will?

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 3:12 PM

This actually could of been great........but it SUCKS.

It's not funny, it's not even a lark. It's just fucking stupid.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 3:32 PM

Jack looks like he's put on a few pounds in that picture with them.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 3:53 PM

Oh look, Odd Future has a new album coming out.

Posted by The orakel | August 31, 2011 4:00 PM

laugh at icp, not with them. fuck you jw.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 4:08 PM

I prefer to laugh at pompous hipsters who think their way of life is better than others'.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 4:18 PM

Check out the look on JW's face. Perhaps this is a cry for help.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 4:24 PM

It is a cry for help. Jack White has been taken hostage by ICP and all you people can do is laugh.

MONSTERS!

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 4:29 PM

If simply hating ICP makes me a pompous hipster, sign me up. I'd rather gouge my eyes and ear drums out than give them any form of credit.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 5:05 PM

:(

Posted by Vicki S | August 31, 2011 5:16 PM

If you check out the ICP website, even the band refers to this as "two hilarious songs......" so I don't think that they or Jack White are taking this really that seriously!

http://www.insaneclownposse.com/icp2010/?p=2642

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 5:34 PM

someone has to make music for disaffected wiggers.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 5:40 PM

@11:51am - never understood that collaboration in the first place - cooler heads prevailed but then again, you never know - never thought Thom would ask Flea to join him on tour :)

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 5:47 PM

Imagine if they booked a tour?

Posted by JUGGALO | August 31, 2011 5:49 PM

Fuck your couch Jack White!

Posted by Tyler The Creater | August 31, 2011 5:51 PM

gross

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 5:54 PM

what a joke

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 7:10 PM

Jack White is a cracker jack musical personality who is forever evolving and expanding. All of you haters could really learn something from him. Yup, Cracker Jack White.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 8:50 PM

I prefer ICP to Jack White.

Posted by Anonymous | August 31, 2011 9:55 PM

^ as stupid and unfunny as the song that inspired it

Posted by Anonymous | September 1, 2011 1:37 AM

somebody already called this clown shit right? i cant be bothered to read all y'alls posts

Posted by Anonymous | September 1, 2011 3:45 PM

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