Among the brunching Juggalos was Jake Jones, known as Sidehawk Ninja to his fellow rap-metal fans. He sat on a curb nibbling on a $3 piece of multigrain toast and complaining about the $5 orange juice. His five-inch lime-green mohawk stretched sideways, from ear to ear, like a tiara, bobbing forward as he rapped expletives. Another Juggalo, Jeremy Baca, a 27-year-old with a Hatchetman tattoo on his arm, said the followers were “hippies — just rough around the edges.”“It’s weird music, that’s why weird people like it,” he said. He had come to Washington with his girlfriend, the rainbow-dreadlocked Valarie Wakefield, whom he met when both were exiled from the school cafeteria in seventh grade.

Source: New York Times September 17, 2017 00:00 UTC