In the booklet for the "Amazing Jeckel Brothers" album, it tells you how you can get your hands on an all new FULL ALBUM worth of new songs from ICP, Twiztid, Myzery, and Blaze rapping under fake gangsta names and doing fake gangsta raps. To get them, you had to show up at the Gathering of the Juggalos in December of 1999 in St. Louis. Only 5000 copies of the album was supposedly pressed.
Well, that Gathering never happened. Juggalos bitched and moaned about the location, plus about the fact that it would be December, and so the Gathering got called off until next year. But the album didn't. Psychopathic pressed up about a bazillion new copies of the Psychopathic Rydas album "Dumpin" and released them on the Wicked Clowns From Outer Space tour. The songs featured a ton of stolen beats and was illegal to sell, so in order to not get sued, they released it on a fake record label called Joe and Joey Records.
The album became a classic. The members were:
Violent J: Bullet
Shaggy: Full Clip
Madrox: Lil' Shank
Monoxide: Foe Foe
Blaze: Cell Block
Myzery: Twin Gats
They did a few performances here and there, mostly at the Gatherings and Big Balla Christmas Parties. At one point, all the Rydas were rumored to be releasing solo albums. However, none of those were ever released. A few of Madrox's solo Rydas songs were later converted into tracks on the next album that featured all the members. Pendulum comic book #7 featured 3 Rydas solo songs, two by Violent J and one from Shaggy.
And then, in 2002, a new Rydas album dropped. This time, minus one member. Myzery/Twin Gats left Psychopathic due to all sorts of things, and so Rydas was now down to five members. The new album, also full of stolen beats and illegal as hell, was released on Joe and Joey, just like the previous one.
No word on when a new Rydas album can be expected, but 2 new members are joining the group. Esham, aka "Converse" and Anybody Killa, also known as "Sawed Off." Should be interesting...
AlbumsAnybody Killa Balze, Dark Lotus, Esham, Insane Clown Posse, Jumpsteady, Twiztid, Zug