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Anthony Fantano, a famous YouTube music critic who runs The Needle Drop review channel, seemingly has a brewing beef with Drake. On Twitter, fans are discussing the Canadian superstar taking to Instagram to share a series of jabs towards Fantano via Instagram, adding fuel to the assumption that the pair aren’t on one accord.
Anthony Fantano is one of the more notable music critics in the game and his unique approach to ranking music gained him a fair amount of fans and detractors. According to what we found online and via Fantano’s YouTube channel, Drake allegedly sent the critic a DM regarding a recipe for vegan cookies. The tone of the DM was left-field as we’ll share via a tweet below.
“Anthony! It’s Drizzy,” opened the string of messages. “I know we don’t really see eye-to-eye about music and that you are not the biggest fan of most of my albums.”
Drake dm'd Anthony Fantano and sent him… a vegan cookie recipe
pic.twitter.com/tisqTYxc7V
— Kurrco (@Kurrco) September 16, 2022
The messages then laid out plans to share a vegan cookie recipe, with Fantano creating a video sharing his reactions to Drake hopping in his DMs.
Perhaps in a bid to dress down Fantano or whoever sent the vegan cookie recipe, Drake shared his own string of messages towards Fantano, mocking the critic’s rating system.
“Your existence is a light 1. And the 1 is cause you are alive,” Drake began. He added, “And cause you somehow wifed a black girl.”
Drake wrapped up his diss with, “I’m feeling a light to decent 1 on your existence,” again using Fantano’s signature rating style.
Fans on Twitter are a bit blown away that Drake has supposed beef with Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop. The reactions are, in a word, intense.
We’ve got those reactions below.
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1.
That bitch shared the salty ass DM to over 100 million people.
pic.twitter.com/2V86NTPnkw
— anthone fantano (@theneedledrop) September 16, 2022
2.
The biggest rapper in the world beefing with a fucking YouTuber is actually insane pic.twitter.com/mEdEuC19Cm
— j aubrey
(@jaubreyYT) September 16, 2022
3.
i dont care how corny or insecure this looks or how much of an attention field day fantano is gonna have with it, drake telling anthony fantano "im feeling a light to decent 1 on your existence" is the funniest fucking shit ever https://t.co/l6zVKfOKnQ
— june
(@thedevilsdenhc) September 16, 2022
4.
so fantano trolled drake into showing real DMs that were more embarrassing than the fake? he should’ve stuck with the recipe
— YoungGizzum (@YourMusicWhore) September 16, 2022
5.
I’m so excited to hear Drake throw subliminals at Fantano on his next 3 albums
— Hivemind (@hivemindassoc) September 16, 2022
6.
That post implies Drake watches Fantano’s reviews on him and gets incredibly angry
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— AFRO REYES (@rbrbreyes) September 16, 2022
7.
you can tell drake was TIRED of so many years of fantano hating on his music
— mariano
(@oscos) September 16, 2022
8.
cardi b is beefing with that stupid kira account and drake is beefing with anthony fucking fantano i can’t do this shit anymore
— wearing odd future donut shirt at cousins wedding (@twinkophrenia) September 16, 2022
9.
Antony Fantano Drake Reviews
NOT GOOD – Honestly, Nevermind
3 – CLB
3 – DLDT (red flannel)
3 – Care Package (red flannel)
4 – Scorpion (red flannel)
5 – More Life
4 – VIEWS
6 – WATTBA
8 – IYRTITL (yellow flannel)
5 – NWTS (but yellow flannel)
6 – Take Care
5 – So Far Gone— Hip Hop By The Numbers (@HipHopNumbers) September 16, 2022
10.
The fact that drake is the one being called obsessed for dming him once when fantano has made 50+ full length videos on him outside of album reviews is crazy. https://t.co/cSzAvB2n8b
— cryp has suicded
(@TSUPYRC) September 16, 2022
11.
He literally said that his “existence is a light 1” so that pretty much implies that he actually watches Fantano’s reviews to know that he rates albums that way lol https://t.co/TiAP4txOub
— Malik (@mwking1997) September 16, 2022
12.
My opinion of Drake was already pretty low but has now plummeted since he decided to fucking DM Fantano to beef with him, like bro you’re a multimillionaire, one of the most successful artists ever, this is so incredibly below you dawg all you had to do was nothing lmao
— // ♱ 𝑯𝑬𝑳𝑳𝑴Ⓐ𝑿𝑿𝑬𝑹 ♱ // (@thehellmaxxerFU) September 16, 2022
13.
Y’all hate Drake so much you are siding with Anthony Fantano of all people it’s time to really look inward.
— Colb (@___Colb___) September 16, 2022
14.
I love Drake, but he reeks of insecurity.
Like I understand smaller artists getting hurt by Fantano’s opinion, it can damage their career, but he’s one of the biggest artists of all time, WHY DO YOU CARE
— Dobson
(@ByDobson) September 16, 2022
15.
this drake and fantano beef is so funny cause if something goes down on either side i'm still enjoying it cause i don't like either of them niggas
— sean (@yandhiisntreal) September 16, 2022
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