Music

2024: Guante & Big Cats’ All Dressed Up, No Funeral

2023: I’m featured on 6 of the 17 songs on the MEGATONGUES project.

2019 – 2022: Two videos featuring my words & voice in songs by Fred Again:

A few previous releases:

War Balloons (2018)
A Furious Vexation (2017)
Post-Post-Race (2016)

A favorite music video; find more on my YouTube channel.

A soundcloud sampler of songs:

And a few press quotes pulled from the past decade or so of releases:

“Part Cormac McCarthy, part Woody Guthrie, and part Public Enemy.” – Justin Schell, TC Daily Planet

“An all-around firebrand… the tracks are political but also personal, impassioned without becoming preachy, and always original.” – Josh Jackson, Paste Magazine

“Their new album captures Guante at his best as he delivers powerful cultural and sociopolitical theses with a blazing clarity, and it serves as excellent companion piece to P.O.S and Brother Ali’s latest records.” – Andrea Swensson, The Current

“Guante and Big Cats create intelligent, political hip hop that mercifully doesn’t come off as preachy or self-righteous. It’s sobering, demanding your attention like a car crash, yet emotional and alarmingly intimate at times.” – Michael L. Walsh, City Pages

“Simply put, he is one of the finest writers in the Twin Cities, and in underground rap writ large.” – Paul Thompson, Impression of Sound

“The funeral has been canceled. If you woke up this morning in dire need of some hope, I’d encourage you to find strength in ‘All Dressed Up, No Funeral.'” – Jon Behm, Reviler

“The album addresses the end of the world and our range of emotional responses to impending crisis, while searching for ways to avoid despair. It’s inspiring in a way even a downtrodden cynic can relate to.” – Keith Harris, Racket