💰 Grifter Anthony Fantano / TheNeedleDrop - "The Internet's Busiest Music Nerd"™, heelturned since 2017, slowly becoming smug SJW, threw Sam Hyde under the bus

[Noble Redditor]

Yes white people do listen to Kendrick because they think they'll be cool in the eyes of niggers. I have a coworker who is a nigger. I don't want to dox the kid but he's a nigger who never met his dad and doesn't know how to read and he always smells of weed. Hopefully that didn't narrow him down too much.

Anyway, he told me the other day, "Noble, you ain't like the other guys we work with. You seasoned."

I thought he meant "seasoned" like "seasoned professional" which essentially means experienced and well-versed in the field. But I knew that he probably meant something else in nigger slang so I asked him to elaborate. He said:
"like how white people don't be seasoning they food and black folk season they food. You seasoned!!"

He meant that I was cultured, and respected in the eyes of the negros. That's the dream of every white cuck, and it's why they listen to Kendrick. They hope that some day a nigger man will tell them they're seasoned.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

Hell i've seen a Filipino lolcow who's almost 40 dicksuck Kendrick Lamar simply because it's the trendy thing.

 

[Steam Deck Verified]

Kendrick was actually pretty standard fare for young white guys back circa 2012, Good Kid Maad City was a staple of frat parties and high school graduations and it wasn't considered pretentious or even particularly highbrow at the time to listen to him. Then Fantano and every other music critic treated To Pimp a Butterfly like it was God's gift to music, not to mention Kendrick later getting a fucking Pulitzer for an album even his own fans couldn't agree on, and now he's the nigger of the century.

I do find it hilarious that people like Fantano hold him up as one of the eminent voices of black artistic expression (he even curated music for the original Black Panther film... not to be confused with the white guy who wrote the actual score to get the Grammy and Oscar) when he was seconds away from being pigeonholed as a white suburbanite's idea of ghetto music, the way Drake is.

 

[Crypt Kicker]

Good Kid Maad City

I remember liking the song Maad City from that album, But I think that's because I actually sort of like 90s west coast rap and it's got MC Eiht from Compton's Most Wanted. Or probably more likely known as the dude that voiced Ryder in San Andreas.
I always thought Kendrick's voice was annoying and gay sounding. It hits my ear the way a stereotypical nasally jew voice does

 

[Lil Miku]

Kendrick was actually pretty standard fare for young white guys back circa 2012, Good Kid Maad City was a staple of frat parties and high school graduations and it wasn't considered pretentious or even particularly highbrow at the time to listen to him. Then Fantano and every other music critic treated To Pimp a Butterfly like it was God's gift to music, not to mention Kendrick later getting a fucking Pulitzer for an album even his own fans couldn't agree on, and now he's the nigger of the century.

I do find it hilarious that people like Fantano hold him up as one of the eminent voices of black artistic expression (he even curated music for the original Black Panther film... not to be confused with the white guy who wrote the actual score to get the Grammy and Oscar) when he was seconds away from being pigeonholed as a white suburbanite's idea of ghetto music, the way Drake is.

When I was in high school in the late 2010s, I didn't hear any of my classmates talk about Kendrick. It was always Drake, and when J. Cole dropped 4 Your Eyes Only, it was all they could walk about. Pretty sure sure I only ever heard about Kendrick from the Internet.

 

[Wolfgrl777]

I can offer some insight as to why Fantano got so popular. In the early 2010s there were not many young music reviewers. We had Robert Christgau, but he wrote in the paper about music. Nobody back then had utilized video (YouTube) to discuss music and was a millennial cohort. I remember I was introduced to emerging and underground artists like: death grips, black country new road, and the world is a beautiful place and I am no longer afraid to die.

I think a good amount of people started to turn away from Fantano when he ramped up reviewing popular nigger music ( yes, I know that includes death grips) and later Tranny music. I think if he stuck to 50% indie unknown artists with merit more people would still care about his opinions in present day. He still would fuck it up due to his constant libtard sperg outs.

 

[The Token Ethnic]

As an avid death metal listener this was mostly a generalized, stock, paint-by-numbers rendering of the genre that contributes little in terms of either knowledge or insight.

Finn, a.k.a. Sergeant D, roasted him after he posted a painfully awkward video about attending a Sunn0))) concert, declaring it life-changing... most likely because he walked away with a bad case of tinnitus. From what I recall, he just liked everything that was popular off of /mu/ at the time, while being into punk and metal.

 

[GemstoneEddie88]

I’ve had a beef with this faggot since about 2017. I had some old friends of mine that went off to college and turned into the lefty artsy types. Nothing against these guys personally, it was very trendy at the time. Anyways, whenever Fantano would post a glowing review of something like Death Grips or Kero Kero Bonito or Charli XCX, all of sudden, these artists became the favorite artists of all my friends. It was all they would talk about and all their talking points regarding the music were just regurgitated takes from Fantano.

I don’t dislike his opinions, I dislike like him at his core. He’s a wannabe trendsetting faggot. He only listens to music that makes him seem cool and accepting and chill. But he’s a retarded faggot deep down.

 

[Sirfaggot]

Finn, a.k.a. Sergeant D, roasted him after he posted a painfully awkward video about attending a Sunn0))) concert, declaring it life-changing... most likely because he walked away with a bad case of tinnitus. From what I recall, he just liked everything that was popular off of /mu/ at the time, while being into punk and metal.

Ugh lmao. Of course. He almost confesses to this in his review of Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, when he quickly slips in that he doesn't care about /mu/'s opinion. When he was more involved with the rock/metal scene, he seemed just well-attuned enough to current stylistic trends and flavors of the month not to look like a total novice when he opines on it, but like his interest only existed to the extent necessary for him to garner success as a reviewer. Could be wrong.

In the interview I was discussing you can tell he did incredibly shallow prep work to appear better-versed in the subject because there is a point where he refers to a middle-of-the-road, super melodic death metal band (like they wouldn't even qualify as death if it weren't for the vocals) as "super chaotic" and "heavy"etc. Too lazy to bother with the timestamp but it's somewhere in the last quarter.

When I was in high school in the late 2010s, I didn't hear any of my classmates talk about Kendrick. It was always Drake, and when J. Cole dropped 4 Your Eyes Only, it was all they could walk about. Pretty sure sure I only ever heard about Kendrick from the Internet.

I only had one friend who listened to rap back then - an upper middle class white suburbanite who seemed very insecure about it - and she was crazy about Kendrick.