Originally Posted by 66Sexy

ICP are trying to be dumb but they're actually dumb so they both succeed and fail in a myriad of different ways that are actually kind of hard to parse since you're never quite sure where the hamfisted theatricality ends and the diamond-in-the-rough talent begins. This is why they're so often dismissed out of hand since most people who easily recognize the former do not wish to delve into figuring it out or even recognizing that the latter exists. I suspect even ICP don't know and if they did it would probably ruin them.