By Kaleb Bronson

Slamming his way through each beat, literally, is the slam-artist, and lyrical slaughter-house known as El Guante with his potent yet poetic new album, coarsely titled, “EL GUANTE’S HAUNTED STUDIO APARTMENT.” Coming out of the Tru Ruts/Speakeasy Records plethora of skillfully trained bombastic lyrical scientists of hip hop, El Guante opens the doors to his “apartment” to let the world hear his versed technique of rhyming activism placed into album form.

Throughout each track on the spit-fire album, Guante slashes through each lyric with a willowy grace and pungent effect, making the mind want to know what it next from this revolutionary MC of masterwork. “EL GUANTE’S HAUNTED STUDIO APARTMENT” is a fresh addition to add to the Minneapolis hip hop scene, making mainstream hip hop run for its tainted bling floating away with the rest of the slime and filth.

Guante is an MC with a barrier of spoken-work wit and sophisticated rhymery, that he mixes throughout this new album of master-works. The skills range from a hip hop Swami mixed with battling the Death Star through lyrical Jedi skills. Even though Guante is originally from Wisconsin, he makes his voice known with the help of Minnesota hip hop icons such as TruthMaze doing beat box on “Unmastered,” the climactic opening track of the album that stacks the layers of rhymes with beat-boxing contortion-ism. Though don’t think the skill stops at one-track, the entire album is a free flow of vivacious wit, and pyrotechnic vocabular dynamic.

The album is a combination of spoken word creations to tantalize the anti-establishmental being of the human soul, mixed with the hard-pounding dungeon doors of hip hops take on reality. Guante gives a new flavor to local rhyme-makers within “EL GUANTE’S HAUNTED STUDIO APARTMENT.” He proves that local MCs can provide an album to inject into the main vein of the brain with an insurgence of craft and command.

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