LonghornMan's Full Review: Chicken' Huntin' [Maxi Single] by Insane Clown Pos...
The single, Chicken Huntin', by Detroit, Michigan's Insane Clown Posse, was available shortly before the release of their album Riddle Box in 1995. I ended up with this CD single quite by accident when leaving an independent record store that had a box marked "free promos." I picked up one of ICP's single having seen one of the short commercials for their upcoming album release on MTV in the middle of the night. I knew they were hip-hip from their name and their commercials. As I walked out I studying the cover of the CD I was puzzled as to what exactly Chicken Huntin' was and why a bunch of guys painted up like clowns were rapping about it.
When I got it home and played the first track I was stimulated and intrigued by what I was hearing. The first track on the single, the Slaughterhouse Street Mix of Chicken' Huntin' was about murdering rascist, redneck, hillbilies. Being that I despise racist rednecks and grow tired of hip-hop singles and albums that portray the all too real and prevalent subject of Black on Black violence, I found the song rather refreshing despite its violent nature and content. This song has a medium paced beat backed up with an electric guitar riff and a hardcore bassline. Each verse ends with, "Last as long as you can my man, 'Cause when that chicken head hits the fan, Ya got blood, guts, fingaz and toes" (repeated three times) ending with, "Sittin' front row at the chicken show," and then the chorus starts, "Who's goin' chicken huntin'? We's goin' chicken huntin!'" (repeated three times) and ending with, "Cut a motherf*ckin' chicken up." Some of the more amusing or disturbing lyrics, depending on how you look at it are: "Peeked in the yard tell me what did I see, I seen I chicken boy f*ckin' his sheep, I said mister mister what the f*ck ya tryin' to do? Barrel's in ya mouth bullet's to ya head, the back of ya neck's all over the shed, Boom shocka boom chop chop bang, I'm too dope and it ain't no thang."
The second track on the single is an instrumental version of the Slaughterhouse Remix. The third track on the single is "I Didn't Mean To Kill Him," which is a song about a guy talking to to a hot girl and she tells him to come over to hook it up with her, but her man, Jimmy, is there. A fight ensues in which Jimmy gets beat to death by a member of ICP and ends up being his room mate which is no problem because he doesn't eat much, being a corpse. The fourth track is a primarily instrumental track in which ICP yells over beats and keyboard to get ready for the wicked clowns. The fifth track is the Riddle Box Sampler in which snippets of "Toy Box," "Li'l Somethin' Somethin'," "Joker's Wild" and "12."
A verse from each song is played with an introduction from ICP preceding each sample. Toy Box is a song about a youth who is ridiculed and made fun of and to make matters worse his father is a serial killer. Li'l Somethin' Somethin' is about members of ICP trying to get busy with easy girls. Joker's Wild is a song about a gameshow in which a cop, a judge and a redneck are contestants competing to find out how they will be executed. 12 is a song about the wicked clowns exacting revenge on the rich and greedy. The sixth track is a slower version (Original Recipe Mix) of Chicken Huntin' that uses a sample from Pungee by The Meters.
This particular single would appeal to a variety of music listeners including fans of hip-hop influenced metal such as SlipKnot, Limp Bizkit, Korn or for those who like hip-hop with more violent and graphic content such as DMX's One More Road To Cross, Geto Boys' Mind Of Lunatic, Bushwick Bill's Chuckie or Chuckwick, Masta Ace's Slaugtahouse, Eminem's Role Model (I know about the feud, but they have similarities) or any of Gangsta Nip's early work.
All in all I must rate this single four out of five because out of all the tracks that I have heard from Insane Clown Posse, this is without a doubt their best song and for those who are not die-hard fans this probably the only one worth buying.
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