Don't Be Nice, by Gaunte + Big Cats!

Don't Be Nice

by Gaunte + Big Cats!

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1.	Talk 01:27	info	buy track
2.	Truth Be Told Breaks It Down 00:50	info	buy track
3.	The Ripple 00:45	info	buy track
4.	Bring Out Your Dead (Big Cats! Remix) 02:54	info	buy track
5.	Limb From Limb 03:15	info	buy track
6.	The Hero 04:42	info	buy track
7.	Harry Potter (Big Cats! Remix w/ Chantz) 04:00	info	buy track
8.	Greed 03:46	info	buy track
9.	Don't Vote for Michelle Bachmann 01:03	info	buy track
10.	This is the Opposite of a Suicide Note 02:41	info	buy track
11.	Red States (Live on The Current) 03:12	info	buy track
12.	Dragons (Live on The Current) 04:00	info	buy track
13.	The Damp, Foggy Midnight (Live on The Current) 03:22	info	buy track

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"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

"Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right." --Sage Francis, Strange Famous Records (on the duo’s last album, “An Unwelcome Guest”)

"Giving you something to think about while nodding your head to his nimble, casual flow, Guante could very well follow Atmosphere and P.O.S. in the long line of outstanding rappers to break out from the Midwest." --CMJ Artist Spotlight

With 2010’s love story/zombie apocalypse parable/political allegory/concept album “An Unwelcome Guest,” two-time National Poetry Slam champion Guante and critically-acclaimed producer Big Cats! carved out a niche as one of the most dynamic, ambitious indie-rap duos in the country. “Don’t Be Nice,” while a little more down-to-earth, is still a whirlwind of styles, impulses and subject matter. From radically political storytelling tracks, to punch-you-in-the-face battle raps, to heartfelt, non-corny love songs, to a couple of legitimate club bangers, this free mixtape proves that while Guante & Big Cats! do what they do very well, they can also do what everyone else does very well, when they want to.

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released September 7, 2010

DON’T BE NICE
Guante & Big Cats!

1. Talk
2. Truth Be Told Breaks it Down
3. The Ripple
4. Bring Out Your Dead (Big Cats! Remix)
5. Limb From Limb
6. The Hero
7. Harry Potter (Big Cats! Remix w/ Chantz)
8. Greed
9. Don’t Vote for Michelle Bachmann
10. This is the Opposite of a Suicide Note
11. Red States (Live on the Current)*
12. Dragons (Live on the Current)*
13. The Damp, Foggy Midnight (Live on the Current)*

Beats by Big Cats!
Words by Guante
Hosted by Truth Be Told of the Tribe
Executive Produced by e.g. bailey + Sha Cage

*Live tracks recorded at 89.3 The Current’s Local Show; live band is Mike Ries, Mike Coyne, Chris Tures and Eric Blomquist

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