{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = You Better Weaponize | type = Studio | artist = Guante & Big Cats! | cover = File:Youbetterweaponize.jpeg | alt = | released = November 6, 2012 | recorded = 2011–2012 | venue = | studio = | genre = Hip hop, alternative hip hop | length = | label = Tru Ruts | producer = Big Cats! | prev_title = Don't Be Nice | prev_year = 2010 | next_title = Pangaea | next_year = 2012 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Guante | type = studio | prev_title = A Loud Heart | prev_year = 2011 | title = You Better Weaponize | year = 2012 | next_title = Embrace the Sun | next_year = 2014 }} }}
{{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Reviler'' | rev1score = Favorable<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.reviler.org/2012/11/06/guante-big-cats-you-better-weaponize-review/|title=Guante & Big Cats!: "You Better Weaponize" Review|date=2012-11-06|website=Reviler|access-date=2017-03-07}}</ref> }}
'''''You Better Weaponize''''' is the second studio album by American rapper Guante and producer Big Cats!.<ref>[http://blog.thecurrent.org/post/2012/10/local-radar-gospel-gossip-robust-worlds-and-guante-big-cats The Current - track preview]</ref> It was released by Tru Ruts on Election Day, November 6, 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.guante.info/2012/09/you-better-weaponize-cover-tracklist.html |title=Guante.info - official announcement |access-date=October 4, 2012 |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025151756/http://www.guante.info/2012/09/you-better-weaponize-cover-tracklist.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://musicthatisntbad.org/2012/10/17/guante-and-big-cats-to-young-leaders/ Music That Isn't Bad - release notice and lead single]{{Dead link|date=February 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
== Release == Upcoming to the album's release, the duo released a music video for the song "To Young Leaders" via Guante's YouTube channel. Later, the song was picked up by Strange Famous Records and released for free on their website.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.guante.info/2012/10/guante-big-cats-to-young-leaders.html|title=Guante & Big Cats: TO YOUNG LEADERS (Official Music Video)|website=www.guante.info|access-date=2017-03-06|archive-date=March 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307123727/http://www.guante.info/2012/10/guante-big-cats-to-young-leaders.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://bringingdowntheband.com/guante-x-big-cats-to-young-leaders-video-elguante-bigcatsbeats-pcpmeltsfaces/|title=Guante x Big Cats "To Young Leaders" Video|date=2012-11-01|work=bdtb|access-date=2017-03-06|language=en-US}}</ref>
==Track listing== {{track listing | collapsed = | extra_column = Producer(s) | title1 = To Young Leaders | extra1 = Big Cats! | length1 = | title2 = Until There's Nothing Left | note2 = featuring Crescent Moon & Toki Wright | extra2 = Big Cats! | length2 = | title3 = Lightning | note3 = featuring Chastity Brown | extra3 = Big Cats! | length3 = | title4 = Underground Sex Party | note4 = featuring Kristoff Krane | extra4 = Big Cats! | length4 = | title5 = Other | extra5 = Big Cats! | length5 = | title6 = Fireworks | extra6 = Big Cats! | length6 = | title7 = Everything Burns | extra7 = Big Cats! | length7 = | title8 = Straight Outta Genosha | extra8 = Big Cats! | length8 = | title9 = Break | note9 = featuring Kristoff Krane | extra9 = Big Cats! | length9 = | title10 = A Leap of Faith into a Bottomless Pit | extra10 = Big Cats! | length10 = | title11 = The Invisible Backpacker of Privilege | note11 = featuring Chantz Erolin and Truth Be Told | extra11 = Big Cats! | length11 = | title12 = A Pragmatist's Guide to Revolution | extra12 = Big Cats! | length12 = | title13 = Asterisk | extra13 = Big Cats! | length13 = |note5=featuring Chastity Brown, See More Perspective and Chantz Erolin}}
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Category:2012 albums Category:Hip-hop albums by American artists