The MAGAts Are Spawning Their Own Culture-- Meet Kurt Jantz, Rich, White Magadonian Rap Star

The Sound Of MAGA

Because she’s so incredibly stupid and ignorant, sometimes— albeit rarely— it actually pays to follow the diarrhea-spewing Marjorie Traitor Greene Twitter account. Yesterday, I discovered a new MAGA music star, Forgiato Blow, AKA Trump’s Nephew, AKA Mayor of MAGAville, AKA Kurt Jantz. See if you can get through this hilarious idiocy by clicking on it:

I think it’s called “MTG, Make Her The VP.” Needless to say, Janz is a Florida Man. To get him out of the house, his multi-millionaire parents sent him to a private college prep school, Admiral Farragut Academy in St Petersburg. I guess they didn’t prepare him that well. He didn’t go to college but… he claims to be a “pioneer of MAGA rap.” After glomming onto failed rapper Vanilla Ice and self-financing and putting out a straight rap album in 2013— and selling virtually no copies— he began a career as a Trump rapper in 2016.

Since then, aside from teaming up with Traitor Greene, he’s worked with other MAGAt superstars like Roger Stone, the Proud Boys, Meatball Ron (before he became Trump’s enemy) and sex trafficker Matt Gaetz. His Pride Month song urging people boycott Target reached #1 on an iTunes chart. Some of his other best-known titles include “Mayor MAGAville,” “Big Don and De$antis,” “Trump Ties,” “Certified Florida Boy,” “Rich Republicans,” “Trump Train,” “Been Living Off Wealth” (BLOW), “Trump’s Nephew,” “Jan6ers,” “Let’s Go Brandon,” “Red Wave,” “Civil War,” “Classified Documents” “Witch Hunt,” and this year, “The Free Miles Guo Movement.”

Last year, Vice News did a feature on Blow. The whole thing is below and you’ll feel like you really know him if you can get through the whole thing. The interviewer, Tess Owen, wrote that Jantz has been making music since 2013. Back then, he’d rap about money, cars, guns, and women. He never achieved any mainstream musical recognition of note, but like many other MAGA World celebrities, he was later able to carve out a niche for himself within the movement surrounding Donald Trump. In 2016, he put out his first pro-Trump song, ‘Silver Spoon.’ Today he’s got more than 116,000 subscribers on YouTube, racks up hundreds of thousands of views on his videos, and has streams in the millions on Spotify. His ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Christmas single (he recorded five versions of ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ tracks in total) hit over a million views on YouTube. He’s collaborated with Vanilla Ice and Rick Ross (though, to be fair, their collaborations have been less about MAGA and more about partying in South Florida).”

“I’ve always thought I was the Donald Trump of rap,” said Jantz. “In the music industry, everyone loved me, but nobody wanted to support me on a big record label. Or everybody wants to support me and be my friend when they need something from me. I felt like that was like Trump— before he was president, everybody loved him… Said he’s going to be the president and they said, ‘No way.’ And then what happened? He became the president. That’s like me and music. I said I was going to make it through, you know, being a white rapper.”

Since Trump left office, Jantz has continued to record MAGA music at breakneck speed, providing anthems to the right-wing culture wars raging across the U.S. If the dissident right are upset about something— vaccines, critical race theory, the plight of Jan. 6 defendants— you can bet that Jantz has a song for it. His song “You Can Call Me Kyle,” which sampled Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al,” was an ode to the teenager who was acquitted on homicide charges after he killed two people during a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020.

…Many of his songs celebrate the most ghoulish aspects of capitalism, perpetuate harmful stereotypes about the LGBTQ community, and glorify violence— but he doesn’t seem to think he has a moral responsibility as a musical artist to think about those things.

In one of his newest tracks, titled “War Ready,” he sings, “Trump we ready for war; BLM we ready for war; Democrats we ready for war; Patriots we ready for war.” When I asked him about that song’s meaning, he got defensive and brushed off any implication he was advocating for violence.

…Jantz’s profile recently got a big boost following a collaboration with J360, another white MAGA rapper who’s from Ohio. They put out a track called, simply, “Matt Gaetz,” lionizing the pro-Trump Florida congressman (who is currently under investigation for allegedly sex trafficking a 17-year-old). Gaetz agreed to appear in the music video and later tweeted a link to the song.

Meeting Trump was definitely a highlight, said Jantz. He lit up when he recalled the first time he met him in person. He said that Trump “broke Secret Service protocol” for him: He used Jantz’s own pen to sign something for him, which is apparently not advisable for a sitting president.

When Jantz sent him MAGA merch from his website, he received a signed letter from Trump thanking him (Jantz excitedly pulled up a copy of the letter on his phone to show me). Jantz even made his adoration for Trump permanent, with a tattoo rendering of his face on his thigh.

…He has a giant Bitcoin symbol tattooed onto his face and painted on his car. Bitcoin enthusiasts exist across the political spectrum, but there is crossover with MAGA World. So the symbol has relevance in the context of MAGA. Jantz, however, says he’s never owned any Bitcoin—the B stands for “Blow.”

He also sells a T-shirt on his website that says ‘“POYB,” an acronym for “Proud of Your Boy” used by the far-right street-fighting gang the Proud Boys. But on his T-shirt, the acronym says “Proud of Your Blow.”

He’s friends with former Proud Boy Chairman Enrique Tarrio (who is currently detained, facing federal conspiracy charges linked to the Jan. 6 riot). He regularly raps about Tarrio. He even collaborated with Bryson Gray, another MAGA rapper, on a track called “Enrique.”