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Jack White produces new InsaneClown Posse single

After collaborations with Lanie Lane, Black Milk, Seasick Steve and Steven Colbert, Jack White has teamed up with fellow Detroit ‘heroes’ the Insane Clown Posse for the most unexpected single of 2011.

The press release from White’s Third Man Records boasts that the collaboration with the Juggalo cult leaders Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J is “In the grand tradition of peanut butter meeting Iggy’s chest or Bing Crosby getting down with David Bowie” and that “this song is NSFW or children”.

The single Leck Mich Im Arsch (apparently that’s German for ‘Lick me in the arse’), lifts a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart melody from 1782 with Tennessee two-piece JEFF the Brotherhood providing the backing track. The B-side for the single will be a song about “tall tales about a shotgun wedding, meth problems and moonshine” called Mountain Girl.

One-hundred highly collectable Tri-color vinyl versions of the single will be available at the Third Man Rolling Record Store on the 17th of September, but you can probably grab on eBay at a hugely inflated price a few days later.

Insane Clown Posse – Leck Mich Im Arsch

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ThatDude123

ThatDude123 said on the 1st Sep, 2011

This is not a joke

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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.

Follow the link to the song, if you really want to.

grattan

grattan said on the 2nd Sep, 2011

From [URL="http://www.billboard.com/news/insane-clown-posse-jack-white-arse-single-1005337002.story#/news/insane-clown-posse-jack-white-arse-single-1005337002.story"]Billboard:

Violent J says it was White who reached out to ICP earlier in the summer for the session, which took place in mid-July at the Third Man studios in Nashville. J had met fellow Detroit native White once before, when they crossed paths at an airport. "I felt a little stupid talking to him because he was in a hurry," J recalls, "but I told him who I was and he stopped and gave me a warm acknowledgement, and we kind of chatted and then went our ways and that was it." And J, of course, was curious as to why White wanted to collaborate with ICP at all -- "The most respected musician in the world and one of the most hated musicians in the world. We didn't expect that call, brother."

"I told him, 'I gotta know -- why us?' " J says. "He said, 'I find myself going to your web site and looking at it. Some stuff I think is genius, some stuff I don't understand at all, but I always find myself going back there and seeing what you're up to.' And he told us that nobody got the kind of reaction he got from his friends in the industry when he told them he was going to do a song with us. He said people were like, 'What? You're kidding me.' That's what got him excited. His exact quote was, 'We could've done a song with Megadeth and it wouldn't be as talked-about as us working with you guys.' That's crazy awesome."

"People seem to be up in arms," Violent J says. "Some people are straight up mad about it -- mad at him, mad at us. It's not like it's on his new album or we're forming a new supergroup; this is a rare 45, a collectible, something different. You have to seek it out to find it. I don't know why people would be upset at us or at him. It's just a really cool collaboration."