Drake posts DMs displaying hateful messages to music critic Anthony Fantano

Drake seems to have beef with standard music journalist Anthony Fantano (finest identified for his YouTube channel The Needle Drop), revealing on his personal accord that he’d despatched the critic hateful messages on Instagram.

Drake posted a screenshot of the messages he despatched to Fantano on his personal Instagram Story, poking enjoyable on the critic’s ranking system – whereby he’ll give information a rating from 1 to 10 with a prefix of “mild”, “respectable”, “robust” or someplace in-between (ie. “a light-weight to respectable 5”) – by writing: “Your existence is a light-weight 1. And the 1 is ‘trigger you're alive. And ‘trigger you in some way wifed a Black lady. I’m feeling a light-weight to respectable 1 in your existence.”

It comes after Fantano joked about being messaged by Drake on YouTube; in a video posted to his eponymous secondary channel, he talked by means of screenshots of a faux thread displaying Drake enthusiastically sharing a vegan recipe for chocolate chip cookies. Nowhere within the video, which runs for simply over eight-and-a-half minutes, does Fantano even allude to the precise content material of Drake’s messages. 

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After Drake shared the precise messages he despatched to Fantano, the latter shared a reputable response to the scenario, calling the messages “very mad, salty … bizarre and awkward”. Explaining why he shared the preliminary video with the comical faux messages, Fantano famous that he would have thought of it “foolish and trashy” to share the messages himself, however noticed a possibility to generate content material out of the scenario. 

Fantano identified that his intent was to “make [the fake messages] so absurd and so foolish that anyone who sees me studying them aloud goes to have a look at this and be like, ‘Drake didn’t ship him this! That is ridiculous… That is only a shitpost.’ Which is was – it was, in reality, a shitpost.”

The critic was finally unfazed by Drake’s try at bullying – declaring how the rapper had used his personal ranking system to insult him, Fantano quipped: “You possibly can’t destroy me with my very own ranking system, dude, it’s my ranking system.”

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Drake’s seventh album, ‘Actually, Nevermind’, arrived again in June. The report earned a three-star evaluation from NME’s Kyann-Sian Williams, who described the album as “an sudden elevation from the tasteless lure” heard on final yr’s ‘Licensed Lover Boy’. 

Fantano, alternatively, gave the album a review so scathing it didn’t warrant a numbered ranking. He referred to as it “one-note, badly produced, weakly sung [and] horrendously under-written”.

Earlier this month, Drake picked up 10 nominations for this yr’s BET Hip Hop Awards, together with Finest Reside Performer, Lyricist Of The Yr, Hip Hop Artist Of The Yr and Hustler Of The Yr.