Well, here's a sentence: Steve Albini believes Joe Rogan should be more like the Insane Clown Posse
Albini has thoughts on the integrity of Juggalos and owning up to personal mistakes
Culture moves in unpredictable ways. In 1999, the following sentence would be impossible to believe and yet now, 23 years later, it’s perfectly sensible: Steve Albini thinks Joe Rogan should look to Insane Clown Posse for moral guidance.
Yes, the guy from Newsradio has been called out by an era-defining musician and audio engineer as lacking the good judgment of a pair of horrorcore rappers who perform in clown makeup. Albini made his feelings known in a series of tweets prompted by an exchange taken from a resurfaced 2020 Stereogum interview with the Insane Clown Posse’s Violent J.
In the excerpt, Violent J looks back on homophobic ICP lyrics with regret, emphatically stating that “there’s no excuse” for what he’d said in the past and calling the offense he might’ve caused gay Juggalos “a terrible thing.”
Albini quote tweeted the interview screenshots and called them “absolutely model owning-your-shit behavior,” adding that “if a goddamn fucking Juggalo can manage it, a nine-figure podcaster can step the fuck up without whining.”