he said during an August teaser clip. The output, as the ICP rapper and his producer attested, was oddly formal and, for some reason, gay. "Shaggy here," the first version of the chatbot intoned.

The duo, composed of Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, began as the Inner City Posse, but they rebranded to the Insane Clown Posse to stand out against a saturated gangsta rap market. ICP became ...