#katrah-quey

[guante]

you want me to wipe the countertop?/ have you even thought about the vast emptiness we’re immersed in?

[guante]

“Your heart is still the only place I want to live/ I just can’t afford the rent...”

Thanks to everyone who’s shared the new video. If you missed it, here it is; more info/background here.

[guante]

5 must-hear Minnesota hip-hop tracks: 3/1/17

In a beautifully directed video by E.G. Bailey, Guante and Katrah-Quey’s song about the “casual exorcism” of gentrification from their 2016 collaborative album, Post-Post-Race, gets visual representation. Jayanthi Kyle’s softly sung hook is even more haunting as she observes movers gradually taking her belongings, leaving her to meditate amid dim candlelight at the video’s conclusion. “Progress isn’t always related to growth / The first step in building a skyscraper is digging up a very deep hole,” raps Guante, who manages to simultaneously pen a lost-love lament and a layered political metaphor.

[taxi-davis]

[tumblingxelian]

(Guante)

[victoriajanssen]

(Guante)

[guante]

"Our Relationship is a Slowly Gentrifying Neighborhood" Guante x Katrah-Quey x Jayanthi Kyle Directed by E.G. Bailey

NEW VIDEO! Officially releasing this tomorrow, but it's up now for anyone who happens to see this! Please feel free to share.

[guante]

It's so imperfect, so unfair/ I know, I know, I know: "not all millionaires"/ "not all men," "not all white folk"/ repeatin' it as you're leavin' in the last life boat/ ...the titanic was too big to fail too/ so your driver, your cook, that kid in the mail room/ shout to every iceberg sweatin'...

Here's me and Lucien Parker with a million bars over this Katrah-Quey track.