On the most recent episode of Juggalo Championship Wrestling (JCW)’s hit YouTube sequence Lunacy, there was a phase inside the first couple minutes the place JCW Commissioner Violent J spoke with the present JCW World Juggalo Tag Crew Champions 2 Tuff Tony & Willie Mack about “getting the band again collectively”. 2 Tuff Tony would later make a joke insinuating he was referring to Darkish Lotus as an alternative of the Juggalo World Order (jWo), which J replied “Fuck that no not them. That band is lifeless perpetually”. A couple of days later, Jamie Madrox made an announcement on Twiztid’s socials asserting that the Eastside Ninjas comprised of them & fellow Psychopathic Data alumni Drive-By (Blaze Ya Useless Homie & Anyone Killa) could be releasing their sophomore effort Return of the Lotus inside the coming months. BUT there are juggalos who’ve justifiably voiced their displeasure with this as a result of it really isn’t Darkish Lotus with out the two males who created it: the Insane Clown Posse. As acknowledged in ICP’s historic 2017 interview with the great individuals over at Faygoluvers & in Violent J’s interview with Bootleg Kev again in 2023, ties between Psychopathic & Majik Ninja Leisure had been severed in 2017 after MNE declined to take part within the Juggalo March on Washington & primarily James Garcia or the artist/producer previously generally known as Younger Depraved of the Axe Homicide Boyz becoming a member of Majik Ninja after betraying the inaugural JCW World Juggalo Heavyweight Champion Evil Useless a.ok.a. Jumpsteady. Darkish Lotus launched 3 full-lengths within the 2000s & their ultimate LP The Mud, Water, Air & Blood got here out on the 2014 Gathering of the Juggalos. Now do I plan on listening to & reviewing Return of the Lotus? Sure, as a result of I feel Darkish Lotus made among the biggest music that Psychopathic has ever launched. I even had J & Shaggy 2 Dope signal my unique copy of Tales from the Lotus Pod on the 2021 Gathering. Nevertheless, in NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM would I think about this a real comeback for them because it’s the Eastside Ninjas cosplaying as Lotus essentially. And if the Clowns had been to proceed Darkish Lotus with out the Eastside Ninjas, I wouldn’t think about that a lot of a return both.