JOSEPH BRUCE

(Redirected from Violent J)

'Joseph 'Joe' Bruce' (b. April 28 1972, Berkley, Michigan) is better known to the world as 'Violent J' of the Insane Clown Posse. He is also the co-founder of the record label of the band, ''Psychopathic Records'', with fellow ICP rapper Joseph Utsler (aka Shaggy 2 Dope) and their former manager, Alex Abbiss. He also has an older brother, the rapper Robert Bruce, (a.k.a. Jumpsteady).

Contents

Wrestling career

Solo releases

Solo discography

Filmography (as himself, unless otherwise specified)

Wrestling career

Bruce is also a professional wrestler. He started off in 1990 as an independent wrestler under the moniker Dropkick Daniels and Corporal Darrell Daniels. His first match ever was working for Al Snow, and it was also the same night where Rob Van Dam and Terry Brunk (Sabu) had their first matches.
Bruce then went on to wrestle in the WWF, ECW and a long stint in WCW with Shaggy 2 Dope, Vampiro and Raven as The Dead Pool. After WCW, he and Shaggy created Juggalo Championshit Wrestling, which was a huge success with "juggalos" (ICP's fanbase), and the backyard wrestling fanbase. Bruce remains great friends with many wrestlers including Sabu, RVD, and Vampiro, just to name a few.

Solo releases

In 2003, Bruce released a solo album, ''The Wizard of the Hood'', inspired by a song of the same name from Insane Clown Posse's first Joker's Card album, ''Carnival of Carnage''.
Wizard of the Hood is an urban spin to the classic tale of ''The Wizard of Oz'' in which Violent J is trying to get back to Detroit, The Scarecrow (Monoxide of Twiztid) needs "homies to smoke with", the Tin Man (Jamie Madrox of Twiztid) needs a gun, and The Lion (Blaze ya Dead Homie) is looking for female lion/human hybrids to copulate with. The album also features Shaggy 2 Dope as the Wizard and Anybody Killa as the Gatekeeper.
In a 2007 interview with Faygoluvers.net Violent J said he would be working on another solo album to be released in 2008.

Solo discography

★ ''Wizard of the Hood'' (2003) (This Album is a compilation of all of the Psychopathic Family as well)

Filmography (as himself, unless otherwise specified)

★ ''Big Money Rustlas'' (V)
★ pre-production
★ (2008) ''Writer/Actor'' (Violent J, Big Baby Chips)

★ ''The White Rapper Show'' (1 episode, 2006)

★ ''Howard Stern on Demand'' (1 episode, 2006)

★ ''Howard Stern on Demand'' (2006) (TV Episode)

★ ''The Chronicals of the Dark Carnival'' (2006) (TV)

★ ''Bowling Balls'' (2004) (V) - ''Writer/Actor'' (Violent J)

★ '' (2004) (VG)

★ ''NWA/TNAWrestling (2004) (Violent J)

★ ''Howard Stern'' (5 episodes, 1998-2003)

★ '' (2003) (V)

★ ''The Purple Show'' (2003) (V) -

★ ''Solaris'' (2002) (V) - Composer: Riddle Box

★ ''madTV'' (1 episode, 2002)

★ ''The Howard Stern Radio Show'' (3 episodes, 1999-2000)

★ ''Big Money Hustlas'' (2000) (V) - ''Writer/Actor'' (Violent J, Joseph Bruce, Big Baby Sweets, Ape Boy)

★ ''Juggalo Championshit Wrestling Volume 1'' (2000) (V)

★ ''WCW Monday Nitro'' (1995) (TV Series) (unknown episodes, 1999-2000)

★ ''WCW Saturday Night'' (1991) (TV Series) (unknown episodes, 1999-2000)

★ ''WCW Road Wild '99'' (1999) (V)

★ ''WCW Worldwide Wrestling'' (1991) (TV Series) (unknown episodes, 1998-1999)

★ ''Sunday Night Heat'' (1998) (TV Series) (unknown episodes, 1998-1999)

★ ''SummerSlam 1998'' (1998) (V)

★ ''WCW Thunder'' (1998) TV Series

★ ''WWF Raw Is War'' (1997) TV Series