Jumpsteady,
where should we start? He has been around just as long as ICP has, considering he is Violent J’s brother. Back in the
early 1990's, Rob was in Operation Desert Storm (Gulf War) and his brother was in need of money to get his career started.
So Rob would mail money home as often as he could just to help his brother Joe get a start in his rap career. After the war
ended, Rob came home and immediately took role as one of the chief members of Psychopathic Records. Jumpsteady made his first
appearance in 1992 on ICP’s album, "Carnival of Carnage" on the song "Taste". This was fresh as fuck and ninjas were
begging for more.
In the Tunnel of Love booklet, a Jumpsteady album was advertised. This album was called “Chaos
Theory.” Now, this was back in the year 1996. Word of the album was never heard of again. But, Jumpsteady’s name
has always been around in songs like “Who Asked You?” and “Hokus Pokus.” He was even in ICP’s
full length movie, Big Money Hustlas. Ninjas nagged at Psychopathic about his album never being released.
While staying
behind the scenes, taking on tasks such as organizing the annual Gatherings, booking tours, promoting music from Psychopathic.
Rob felt he had broken his promise to the Juggalos, a promise broken for too long.
After what was deemed an album
never to be released, Psychopathic finally told the Juggalos and Juggalettes that it was finally going to be released in 2002.
Before the release though, Jump wrote an intro to the song “Take Me Home” which can be found on ICP’s album
Forgotten Freshness: Volume 3. Another song on Forgotten Freshness features Jumpsteady. This song is “The Family Song”
where you can hear his wife, Nancy (Myzery’s sister) and his daughter, Samantha.
The day was July 19, 2002…
the first day of the Gathering of the Juggalos 2002. Jumpsteady’s “Chaos Theory” CD was finally released
and shocked all of the ninjas. The CD was devastating. Special guests contained ICP, Twiztid, Blaze, ABK, Samantha, Syn, and
even the legendary Legz Diamond! Jamie Madrox helped out with the lyrics.
Where will Jumpsteady’s career go?
Who knows? We all just hope he continues producing albums and intros to songs such as “The Eulogy.” It will be
great to see where his album will lead him. But trust me; there will be no stopping Jumpsteady, his new album Master of
the Flying Guillotine is going to hit music shelves soon!
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