Insane Clown Posse Vs. It (Lyric Meanings)

==IT:==
My time has come to wake again from thirty years of slumber;
(IT is the titular antagonist of the best-selling 1986 horror novel by Stephen King - a malicious, shape-shifting creature that vows to feed on all of mankind and every 30 years, although the book estimates it to 27, it enters a period of hibernation and reawakens after the hiatus to cause more trouble. Here, IT is emerging from its nearly decades long rest to settle a rap dispute with the Insane Clown Posse.)
You'd do Penny-wise to make like Stan so you don't have to suffer,
(Pennywise is one of the many transformations that IT takes on throughout the course of the novel, mainly the illusion of a clown when going after kids as its next target. Stanley Uris is a major character who joins the Losers Club and helps take down Pennywise the first time, but after he receives a call 27 years later about IT's possible return, he decides to remove himself from the equation by committing suicide in his own bathroom. In a bit of wordplay, IT is telling ICP to be "wise" and kill themselves lest they suffer a painful death at the hands of Pennywise.)
When this small-town boogeyman destroys these Inner City Posers,
(Inner City Posse was a gangsta rap group, active from 1989 to 1991, that was basically the starting grounds for Insane Clown Posse as Joseph Bruce [Violent J] and Joseph Utsler [2 Dope] founded it along with John Utsler [John Kickjazz] and John Rode [Kid Villain]. Despite its terrors being confined to a small-town in Derry, IT vows he will destroy these two and makes a pun on their early band's name by calling them "Posers;" implying they are rip-offs of N.W.A.)
Serving up a terror-Tempest that'll trump your tepid 'coaster!
(The Tempest was Insane Clown Posse's tenth studio album that they released in 2007, which marked the return of producer Mike E. Clark after a fall-out they had seven years ago. The concept of the LP, which varied between horrorcore-based character deconstructions and lighter subject matter, was about the severity of a raging thunderstorm being comparable to a roller coaster; though IT objects that the terror it cooks up outmatches the tempest chills ICP has to offer.)
You're too old to stand a chance; I'm everything you've ever feared:
(This threat from Pennywise is a direct reference to two lines of his from the 1990 miniseries adaptation. The first is when he terrorizes Adult Richie in the library by saying that he and his friends are too old to stop him and that he has one last chance to get out of Derry before nightfall. The second is when he interrupts the Losers during their research of the monster when he makes their book come to life and appears in one of the photographs, bragging that he is every nightmare and fear of theirs incarnate.)
This world-consuming child-eater hungers like a Langolier!
(The Langoliers are creatures and the over-arching antagonists of the Stephen King novella of the same name. They are depicted as ravenous fur balls with no legs and three mandibles, as infamously demonstrated in the 1995 mini-series adaptation of theirs with rather horrid CGI, as their only form of sustenance appears to be time; devouring the universe behind it. In both the 1990 miniseries and It: Chapter Two, Pennywise brags to the Losers that he is the "Eater of Worlds and Children.")
A fiend beyond your foulest nightmares, for I'm not of this dimension;
(IT is a shape-shifting creature known as a Glamour, who is billions of years old, and originated in a void/dimension outside the regions of space known as the Macroverse. It found its way to Earth during a cataclysmic event several years ago and did not awaken until 1715-16, proceeding to give everyone it ran into nightmares most unexplainable.)
Just like Giygas, my true form exceeds your feeble comprehension!
(Giygas is the main antagonist of the Nintendo video game Earthbound, as well as a guest rapper in the "Porky vs. Cartman" rap battle. Known as both the "Embodiment of Evil" and the "Universal Cosmic Destroyer", Giygas is an evil alien who vows to sentence all of reality into a horror-show of darkness and has often been touted as one of the scariest video game villains of all time. The villain, in the boss fight of the second game, is depicted as a swirly-red demon creature that many have often interpreted as a fetus and throughout the battle, a line of text usually appears reading: "You cannot grasp the true form of Giygas' attack!" IT, similarly, has a true form beyond its clown appearance known as the Deadlights - which are said to cause a person's mind to break with just one look at it; including ICP as Pennywise warns them.)
Lesser evils shrink before me; ask my old pal, Henry Bowers.
(Henry Bowers is the secondary antagonist of Stephen King's It and serves as the leader for a gang of bullies that target the Loser kids. Though as the novel progresses, he loses each of his peers to the creature's forms and upon encountering the creature, he becomes very schizophrenic and sociopathic; along with his hair becoming white after catching a mere glimpse of its Deadlights - which did not carry over in It: Chapter Two. Despite breaking his mind, It decides to break Adult Henry out of the mental hospital as a back-up plan for killing the Losers when they head back to Derry.
Watch me crash your crappy Carnival and make the spirits cower:
(Carnival of Carnage was the debut studio album by Insane Clown Posse that was released on October 18th 1992 as part of what would be the first instalment in the groups "Dark Carnival" mythology. The song's lyrics describe the Carnival as a representation of the violence that occurs within the ghettos, which take on the form of a travelling carnival to enact the same brutality on the upper class. It is full of souls that face judgement based on their individual actions before being sent to hell or heaven, but Pennywise says he will trash all over their circus and cause the ghosts to run for their lives.)
Drop your Great Milenko faster than a Disney record label;
The Great Milenko was ICP's fourth studio album that was released on June 24th 1997 with guest appearances by Steve Jones and Alice Cooper. The "Great Milenko," in question, is a necromancer and illusionist who tricks individuals into acts of greed, envy, and lust. The Joker Card goes on to imply that he is part of every individual and that they have the power to either fall under his illusions or overcome them entirely. The album was recorded and initially released by the Disney-owned record label Hollywood Records, who immediately disassociated themselves with the LP after criticism from the likes of the Southern Baptist Church that claimed it did not reflect their "family-friendly" image and upon terminating their contract, ICP signed a new contract with Island Records as they re-released the album by August. In short, Pennywise is saying he will toss their tricks and illusions faster than Disney's music branch dropped one of their albums.
Cutting jugulars of Juggalos, I make it extra-painful!
(Juggalos are the un-official terms used to describe die-hard fans of Insane Clown Posse as the word was first used by Violent J during a live 1994 performance. The most common characteristics of a Juggalo include expressing "tongue-in-cheek" obsessions with blade weapon-murder, wearing face paint, and making/responding to "whoop, whoop" calls. They even have their own annual "Gathering" festival put together by Psychopathic Records, though they've often become the butt of many jokes when it comes to discussions of crazed fandoms on the Internet. Pennywise shares this sentiment as he says he will kill all of ICP's fans with a bit of word play by particularly homing on in their jugulars - the veins of their neck/throat. 
All your fans must be as blinded as the adults in these suburbs,
(Throughout It, it is explicitly demonstrated that the adults of Derry, including the parents of the children preyed upon, are blissfully unaware of the evil that plagues their town as IT has a sort-of psychological control over the town that impacts their judgement and therefore, makes it all the more easier to devour children whole. However, IT feels that all Juggalos combined are way more naïve than the adults in his hometown for reasons he discloses in the next verse.)
'Cause your whole discography belongs discarded in my gutter!
(In It, the sewer works are where IT dwells and uses it to travel much faster rates when going after his victims of choice. {ie. Georgie in the rafters, Beverly's sink trauma} Going back to his comment about the Juggalos, Pennywise says that all of Insane Clown Posse's musical library deserves to be thrown away into his barren sewer and for any Juggalo to listen to any of it makes them more blinded than the adults of Derry. ICP's discography has often gotten flak from most critics and people online due to their "too-edgy" nature and the antics of their fanbase.)
This is IT; the end for both of you! I'll drag your asses down,
("This is it" is a phrase used to say a very important event is about to happen or that something is about to end; in this case, IT makes a pun on its name by saying he will drag Shaggy and Dope into the sewer like he did to Georgie Denbrough and do bad things to them he'll elaborate in the next verse.
And leave your bloated bodies floating where the water's thick and brown!
(Continuing from the last line, IT says he will eat Shaggy and Dope alive until their corpses are swollen and inflated as their blood runs into the thick, brown water of the sewers. "[]" is a word that IT loves to use throughout the novel as a euphemism for the dead kids he leaves to sail in the murky depths of his domain.)
==Insane Clown Posse:==
(Shaggy 2 Dope is in Bold, Violent J is in Italics)
Yo, we're a Psychopathic rapping pair of wicked-wild wrestlers
(Joseph Bruce and Joseph Utsler introduce themselves as the two founding members of the rap group Insane Clown Posse who are indeed psychotic and devious. "Psychopathic" is a reference to Psychopathic Records - the Michigan-based independent record label that ICP founded in 1991 and has since been their main associate. "Wild-wrestlers" could also be a reference to Shaggy and Violent J's tag-team career as part of their own Juggalo Championship Wrestling tournament, which they first founded in 1999 and is usually recorded on their very own Internet broadcasting program - SlamTV!.)
Out on a hunt To Catch A sewer-dwelling child Predator!
(To Catch a Predator is the name of a song made by ICP for Bang! Pow! Boom! and was inspired by the Dateline NBC program of the same name where its host, Chris Hansen, would conduct operations on adult men suspected of having sex with a minor; using hidden cameras and a sting house to confront them. Much like the offenders shown in the series, IT is a predatory-being that primarily preys on children and the Insane Clowns are out to stop him before he can do more harm. Coincidentally, the original title card for Nostalgia Critic's review of the It miniseries shows a younger version of him standing next to Chris Hansen, directing Pennywise to "take a seat" on a chair in the background and halfway throughout the review, NC dismisses him as "the missing member of the Insane Clown Posse.")
We lay a sucka bugaboo to Boogie Woogie Waste…
("Boogie Woogie Wu" is a song from The Great Milenko told from the perspective of a boogie man who talks about the slaughter of children and in 2021, one lyric from the track became a TikTok fad. While Pennywise can be considered a frightening boogeyman of sorts for the children of Derry, Violent J makes it quite clear that they will reduce him into a pile of waste using the following methods explained in the next verse.)
With Faygo shower spray like battery acid up In Yo' Face!
(Faygo is a soft drink brewed by the Michigan-based company of the same name that are routinely referenced in several of Insane Clown Posse's song and in live concerts of theirs, they spray the audience with a bottle of the drink. In the 1990 miniseries, during the Losers first "beating" of Pennywise, Eddie Kaspbrak uses his asthma inhaler to save Stan by declaring it as "battery acid" and sprays it in Pennywise's face, which actually seems to work as it causes significant damage to his skin; despite not actually containing battery acid. ICP says they will use their "belief" powers the same way the Losers did and defeat Pennywise by spraying Faygo all over his face. "In Yo' Face" is a reference to the first track of their LP "Bang! Pow! Boom!.")
Got a deck of Joker's Cards, ripe for release from up our sleeves
(Joker's Cards are a recurring motif in Insane Clown Posse's discography that each relate to a specific character from the Dark Carnival that tries to "save the human soul" by showing the wickedness within one's self. Here, Shaggy says that he have plenty of them up their sleeve - a reference to the phrase "up your sleeve" which means they have a hidden advantage over Pennywise.)
And their Unveiling's Thy undoing; ain't no drain will grant reprieve!
("Thy Unveiling" is the final song of The Wraith: Shangri-La, which was the sixth album in the original "Joker's Cards" series. In the song, the duo explicitly acknowledges their belief in God for the first time and that it was the driving force behind the Dark Carnival first introduced in Carnival of Carnage; meaning the divine powers of God will stop Pennywise before he has the chance to retreat in a sewer drain like he did after his first fight with the Losers.)
Our Mighty Death Pop is set for bursting more than your balloons.
(The Mighty Death Pop! was ICP's twelfth studio album and the second in a new "Joker's Cards" deck series. The title character has the appearance of an exploding clown skull and its concept relates to how "we should respect the life given to us and do our best to avoid an early death," as Joseph Bruce put it in an interview. He also stated that MDP is their most dangerous card to date and if his words are to believed, Insane Clown Posse will use it to badly deflate Pennywise much like they would with his balloons - a regular motif that accompanies IT whenever it uses its clown form. Though some have theorized they are actually [] of its Deadlights and contain the souls of children IT has killed.)
We'll blast your wack ass back to Hell's Pit with a Bang, Pow, Boom!
(Hell's Pit is the ninth studio album that ICP released on August 31st 2004 that was a continuation of The Wraith and the final chapter of the original "Joker's Card" series. As you'd guess, the LP's songs illustrate the horrors of the Underworld and the suffering of those who did not atone for their sins. Bang! Pow! Boom! was their 11th studio album that they released on September 1st 2009 as a revival of the "Dark Carnival" mythology, as well as marking the proper return of producer Mike E. Clark. The titular "Joker's Card" character is described by Bruce as a "continuous explosion that stomps his way through a crowd of countless souls awaiting punishment. Shaggy and Violent J tell Pennywise that they will use that card to send his child-eating ass straight to an infernal pit. )
The Southwest Strangla's a distant cry from Scooby's stoner friend;
(Shaggy Dope shares his name with Shaggy Rogers, one of the five main characters of the long-running cartoon series Scooby-Doo!; in which he is the pansiest member of the Mystery Inc. crew as he and his canine pal often scare easily, though are bribed into solving mysteries on the promise of Scooby Snacks. Many people have often interpreted him as being a stoner due to his hippie behavior and constant appetite for food like sandwiches, though Shaggy Dope has another nickname for himself that he established in its titular song - "The Southwest Strangla," which he would use in later songs to sound imposing.)
I'll tear your anus open wider than an anti-Eminem,
(In 1997, Bruce took Myzery to St. Andrew's Hall when an unknown local emcee, who would later become known as Eminem, approached the former and handed out a flyer advertising the release party for the Slim Shady EP. It read "featuring appearances by Esham, Kid Rock, and ICP (maybe)," prompting Bruce to ask why promote them without making contact first and then got into a minor spat; resulting in them not attending the party and resorting to mockery, they made a parody of Eminem's alter-ego named Slim Anus" - which first appeared in Twiztid's 1997 debut Mostasteless, and later appeared in a 1999 parody of "My Name Is." Eminem would respond back with a skit on his Marshall Mathers LP album that dissed ICP, though getting back on track, Shaggy says he will tear Pennywise's asshole much bigger than he did to their parody of Slim Shady.)
With disses damning as a ride down the Illusionary Halls,
("Halls of Illusion" was Insane Clown Posse's first ever single as part of The Great Milenko and showed their hate towards child abuse & domestic violence, along with the damage its victims suffer. In it, the lyrics speak about the perpetrators of such acts being sent on a hellish amusement park ride that show the consequences of their ways and what could have been much better lives. Shaggy tells IT that his and Violent J's disses are as condemning as the fun house the song talks about.)
Before I Slash your head right off and toss it like a Bowling Ball!
(Shaggy goes on to mention that he will decapitate Pennywise's head and toss it down an alley like it was a bowling ball. This line is a reference to both [], the rock musician and lead guitarist of Guns N' Roses who did background rhythms for the aforementioned song; and "Bowling Balls, a song from "Hell's Pit" that describes decapitation and murder - which also had its very own short film, the first 3D one of its kind to be shot in HD.)
I fire off my Violent verses like a clip of silver bullets,
(Violent J introduces himself by saying that the verses he spews are on par with silver bullets - one of IT's weaknesses that the Losers found about and Beverly uses it against it in both the novel and the 1990 miniseries, but not in the 2010's films. Coincidentally, Stephen King made a book three years before It called Cycle of the Werewolf that in 1985, was adapted into the 1985 film - Silver Bullet).
But in terms of wrecking you, 'bout any Loser crew could pull it.
(The Losers Club are major protagonists in It are essentially a group of seven preteen misfit children preyed upon by IT, but come together and face their fears together. Upon "beating" it the first time, they make a promise that should it awaken every 27 years, they'll come back to finish the job and they do so; at the cost of Eddie's death and Stan committing suicide beforehand. Here, Violent J is retracting his earlier comment about beating Pennywise himself as he could just let some kids do it; highlighting how weak IT really is when its targets aren't afraid.)
Hard and steady as Maturin's shell, but fast with axe attacks,
(Maturin is a minor character in IT often referred to as "The Turtle," one of the twelve Guardians of the Beams that held up Dark Tower along with Shardik. In contrast to IT, Maturin is a kind, wise, benevolent, and compassionate being with a grandfather-like demeaning towards humans as he would advise Bill in 1958 while Gan looked after the others. Violent J compares his raps to the Turtle's shell as they are both hard, but differ in barraging-speed.)
And I'll be throwing you more Twiztid curves than Jeckel Brother Jack!
(The Amazing Jeckel Brothers was the fifth studio album that ICP released on May 25th 1999 as part of the "Joker's Card" mythology with much of its song's lyrical content focusing on the Nine Circles of Hell and the morality of man as it is torn between righteousness and evil. The album's titular Jeckel Brothers, named Jack and Jake, are spirits who juggle balls of fire, representing the sins committed during the mortal life of the dead. This line is a possible twist on the word "curveball" as Violent is giving IT several rap beatings at an unexpected, disruptive pace. "Twiztid" is an American hip-hop duo from Detroit known for both their horror-themed lyrics and rock influenced sound. Formed in 1997 and consisting of Jamie "Madrox" Spaniolo and Paul "Monoxide" Methric, they have done at least several collabs before with Insane Clown Posse since they worked with Psychopathic until 2012.)
Call this the Ritual of Chüd, part número tres;
(The Ritual of Chud was a battle of wills depicted in It as the only way to defeat the titular creature. While it was greatly changed in both adaptations, let alone never outright mentioned, how it worked in the novel was that two parties metaphorically/spiritually bit down on each other's tongues and told jokes until the losing party laughs. If the taelus laughs first, it gets sent away for a hundred years while if the man does it first, his soul is devoured. Bill does it one time with the Maturin as a child, though fails during the last battle as an adult. Here, Shaggy says their verses are on par with the Ritual; implying that if IT ends up laughing, they'll take him down for good.)
Won't be relenting 'til your putrid Derry-ére is straight-erased!
(Derry is a fictional town in the state of Maine, said to be near or based on Bangor, that serves as the main setting for It; though was actually first mentioned in the 1981 short story "The Bird and the Album" and has since appeared in other Stephen King stories. Violent J makes a pun between "Derry" and "derierre," saying that they won't stop kicking IT's ass until he is out for the count.)
We'll take a hatchet to your balls and grind 'em into Curry stew
(Violent J goes on to say that they will chop IT's testicles off with a sharp hatchet and grind its remains into a stewful of curry - a pun on Tim Curry, the former British actor who portrayed Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the original It miniseries; a performance that terrified kids throughout the 1990's, though some have looked back on it as being hilarious and goofy.)
'Cause we've seen Miracles galore, but still we don't believe in you!
("Miracles" is a song part of Bang! Pow! Boom! that had a music video produced for the album's 2010 reissue. The song's lyrics focus on things experienced in everyday life, displaying an appreciation for them, and perceiving them as miraculous and outside of the laws of physics. It has become perhaps the duo's best-known song and its music video sparked a handful of memes upon going viral, along with parodies on SNL and Lonely Island. However, Shaggy and Violent J say that out of all the things they appreciate in life, they do not believe in IT and deny him any power it could wield over them.)
==It:==
Your skulls are thicker than the pages of the novel whence I hail,
(The original It novel clocks in at being 1,138 pages long, outmatched by The Stand's count of 1,152; though is still such a lengthy novel to get through that, as a result, makes the book very heavy and sturdy. However, IT says that the craniums of Shaggy and J are much thicker in comparison; implying they are stupid and dull.
But I can see Behind the Paint, and make your Hokus Pokus fail!
(Behind the Paint is a 2003 autobiography of and by Joseph Bruce ["Violent J"] which focuses on his life up until that point while "Hokus Pokus"is a song that Insane Clown Posse wrote for The Great Milenko which uses the "Streets of Cairo" melody. In this verse, IT mentions that he knows all about ICP's tricks and can do everything he can to make sure they don't succeed.)
You think pure Evil Is Afraid of your pathetic little schtick?
(Evil is Afraid is a song that Insane Clown Posse released as part of the 2007 Hallowicked single, though being the ultimate evil it is, IT references the song title by saying their measly gimmicks do not make it cower.) 
I'll leech your bodies dry of blood just like that ol' Hockstetter prick,
(Patrick Hockstetter was a bully and primary member of Henry Bowers' gang; the most sociopathic of the bunch as he liked to hurt animals and even killed his own baby brother. While his fate varies throughout each adaptation, Hockstetter meets his end to IT regardless and in the original novel, he is sucked dry from leeches, his worst fear; that burst out of his fridge and suck him dry of blood until IT's Pennywise form shows up and feeds on the rest of him as he awakes one last time. In short, IT states that he will leave Shaggy and J bloated the same way he did to Patrick in the original book.)
So take your pick: I've got a thousand different ways for you to die.
("Take your pick" is the very first thing that Pennywise says to Bill Denborough upon their "reunion" in the 1990 miniseries; while the latter is mourning and apologizing to Georgie's grave, the former tells him to take a pick as he points him to seven freshly dug burial spots with one of them being "taken." Though he and the other Losers don't know it yet, it was filled up to represent Stan's "premature departure." In the novel, IT is estimated to have killed a dozen people, both adults and children, in many horrific/creative ways that he asks Shaggy and J to choose from.)
Devour you and your producer, too; three piggies in a pie!
(Along with eating Shaggy and Violent J whole, IT says he will include their producer Michael Earl Clark, who worked with them since Carnival of Carnage all the way up to Mike E. Clark's Extra Pop Emporium - a 2012 bonus album. "Piggy Pie" is a song from The Great Milenko that takes the classic "Three Little Pigs" tale and interjects with the "pig" metaphors often used to portray corrupt police forces. Here though, Pennywise says that he will bake the ICP gang into the same recipe they have in mind for power-grabbing coppers.)
I'll undo you like a Slipknot; It's All Over for you maggots!
(In 1999, right as they were starting to blow up, heavy metal band Slipknot did a one-on-one interview with Insane Clown Posse during the Howard Stern Show where Shaggy 2 Dope and some of the former's members like Clown spewed insults at each other, but drummer Joey Jordison was quick to stamp out any further flames between the two and they never got into any noteworthy feuds since then. IT makes a pun on their name by saying he will undo ICP like a knot. "Its All Over" is a reference to the song of the same name from Bang! Pow! Boom! while maggots could be a reference to "For the Maggots" from Ringmaster.)
How can you hope to outwit me when you're stumped by fucking magnets?
(Going back to "Miracles," while the song describes the wonders of the universe and an appreciation for nature's beauty, it also expresses skepticism towards modern science while going far enough to declare scientists as "motherfuckers." One of the more infamous lyrics that highlight such themes are "Water, fire, air and dirt/Fucking magnets, how do they work?." Upon the music video's YouTube debut in April 2010, that particular lyric became an instant ironic meme and has been quoted in several forums and Internet humor blogs. IT can only ponder as to how the Insane Clown Posse can defeat him if the very existence of magnets is enough to leave them baffled.)
Darkness ancient as the Tower, and no sooner will I crumble,
(The Dark Tower is a series of eight novels and one short story written by Stephen King. Oten regarded as one of his most ambiguous works, it describes a "gunslinger" and his quest toward a tower, the nature of which is both physical and metaphorical. The series, and its use of the Dark Tower, expands upon Stephen King's multiverse and in doing so, links together many of his other novels. Naturally, It has a few connections with the Dark Tower as the main antagonist, the Crimson King, possesses a pair of Deadlights similar to IT's. A portrait of Pennywise can be seen in The Dark Tower: Fall of Gilea and in the 2017 movie adaptation, his name can be seen written on an amusement park ride. As mentioned before, Pennywise is billions of years old and has existed long before the universe while assuring in this verse that he will not crumble.
For my horror is Universal; mimicking the whole ensemble.
(The Universal Monsters is a media franchise based on a series of horror films primarily produced by Universal Pictures from the 1930's to the 1950's, ranging from the likes of Dracula to Frankenstein. Though the 2017 film did away with these versions and the 1990 miniseries kept parts of it vague, IT transforms into a couple of the Universal Monsters in the original novel. As Creature from the Black Lagoon, he kills Eddie Corcoran; as Boris Karloff's Imhotep, he taunts Ben Hanscom [the one in the 1990 film that almost takes Stan resembles a more generic mummy]; a razor-bladed Dracula, which startles Ben at a library [though is more described on par of Nosferatu and/or Kurt Barlow]; and Frankenstein's Monster, who decapitates Victor and kills Belch. Although he turns into a werewolf, it is not the classic Lon Chaney Jr. "Wolf Man," but rather the I Was A Teenage Werewolf version. Back on track, Pennywise says that his frights are as legendary as the Universal Monsters and that he can mimick them with ease.)
Time for clowning 'round is through, and now I'm taking out the trash,
"Clowning around" means to fool around or act silly and given that this is a rap battle featuring three clowns going at each other, this is yet another bit of word play as IT announces the time to take out the garbage is now; starting with Insane Clown Posse.)
With eight unholy legs a-walkin', and my deadlights set to flash!
(In both the original novel and the films it inspired, a giant spider is the closest thing imaginable to IT's true "physical" form while its real form are the Deadlights. What they are are writhing, radiant orange lights that emit a mysterious, but lethally terrifying eldritch form of energy that originates from the Macroverse. IT uses this source to blind new victims while robbing them of their conscious minds, driving them insane and leaving them immobile before being taken away for consuming; which is what he'll do to Shaggy and Violent J by the time this battle's finished.
==Insane Clown Posse:==
Think you're above the human race with that Todash arachnid crap?!
(The Insane Clown Posse is in no way impressed by IT's true form as they call out its "superiority complex" and that its appearance looks like garbage, a possible reference to most people's disappointment with IT's spider appearance; mainly when it comes to how the movies handle it [shoddy stop-motion, unconvincing CGI]. Todash is also a place of being in the Dark Tower timeline that exists between universes, which a person travels through to get from one to another. The todash state is usually accompanied by the "kammen" or chimes, which produce an unpleasant/pleasant sound and going todash can lead to dangerous instances of getting stuck into unreturnable darkness.)
ICP acts Above the Law when we deliver Murder-Raps:
("Murder Rap" is a song from The Wraith: Shangri-La and "Above the Law" is a lyric that is commonly mentioned throughout. Here, Violent J says that Insane Clown Posse is not required to obey the law when it comes to murdering IT with the raps they deliver.)
We'll leave more craters in your face than when you show up in the moon,
(In the 1990 miniseries, Pennywise appears to an older, institutionalized Henry Bowers by projecting himself onto the giant moon outside his window as he instructs him to go back into Derry and "help" him again by killing all six remaining Losers. The moon, as you know, is full of several craters due to asteroids and meteorites that collide with the lunar surface as it has no surface to protect itself from impact. Much like a meteor, Violent J says that he and Shaggy will leave several craters on IT's face once this battle's over.)
'Fore we extract your bloody, beating heart like it's Temple of Doom!
(In both versions of It, the adult Losers, sans Eddie, manage to kill IT by bringing it down to its weakest form and rip its beating heart out of its chest; similar to a controversial scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where the villain, Mola Ram, does a similar action to a Thuggee sacrificial victim and catches on fire as soon as he's lowered into a boiling pit.)
Then after all is said and done, we'll get some Juggalettes to gather,
(Upon killing IT by beating and crushing its heart, both Shaggy and Violent J will gather some of their fans for the following action explained in the next verse. Interestingly, Juggalettes are the term used to describe female fans of Insane Clown Posse.)
And proceed to play some Neden Game on top of your cadaver!
("The Neden Game" is a song from The Great Milenko that actually has to do with a recurring ICP slang for female genitalia and the lyrics are about a fictional dating show where Shaggy and Violent J compete for a juggalette called Sharon. Basically, they're going to have hot, steaming sex over IT's arachnid corpse; almost like a controversial scene from the original It book where Beverly loses her virginity to the Losers after defeating Pennywise as kids.)
Said we'd send you down to Hell, but it so happens that we lied…
(Violent J harkens back to an earlier verse of theirs where they mentioned that they would send IT down to Hell's Pit as all of a sudden, he has a change of mind.)
Because that shit's too good for you, and so you go to Echo Side!
(Shaggy finds that the realms of Hell are way too cozy for such a horrible monstrosity like IT, so they're going to send it somewhere way worse - Echo Side. It is the name of a song from Amazing Jeckel Brothers [was originally going to be the debut of Dark Lotus] that describes it as being a place that exists beyond, seldom seen, and is worse than Hell; a much more fitting fate for the Deadlight abomination.) 
The Riddle Box is popping open, and your final fate is sealed!
(Riddle Box is the third studio album that Insane Clown Posse released in October 1995 as part of their "Joker's Card" series and it is a concept of the afterlife in which souls are sent to a form of limbo while waiting to be sent to heaven or hell based on their individual actions. The specific "card" character is is an entity that determines the fate of the dead as upon death, a soul enters a dark chamber containing a jack-in-the-box on an old wooden table. The front of the box has a "painted question mark faded with time," representing the mystery of your own afterlife. As the handle is turned, a melodic tune begins to play, and when the music stops, the choice is made. The pure see a vision of God, warming their souls as they enter eternal peace. The wicked see an immense fog seeping from the box, "stripping their sanity, as they witness an image of hell, spawned and formed from their own evil; a hideous reflection of their demented souls." The floor falls from underneath them, casting the doomed into the bottomless pit of Hell. Given this is IT we're dealing with, there's only guess as to where it's heading and its fate has already been decided as told by Violent J.)
Prepare to meet your brother Dandelo out in the Killing Fields!
(Dandelo is a major character from The Dark Tower - a sly, but viscious creature who is one of Roland's penultimate obstacles before reaching the Dark Tower, feeds on the emotions of others and makes dwellings seem larger on the inside; very similar abilities as to the one IT has. Because of this, many have speculated that Dandelo and IT are one of the same creatures and that they may be siblings while others suggest he may have been one of IT's spawnings that managed to hatch before or even after its death. "The Killing Fields" is a song from ICP's Riddle Box that describes a particular part of Hell where the wicked are perpetually tortured and judging by that piece of information, Shaggy is saying that IT and Dandello need to be ready for the infernal punishing they're about to face due to their actions.)
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