Drake has responded to music critic Anthony Fantano after he posted alleged direct messages from the rapper.
Fantano, who runs the YouTube channel The Needle Drop, shared a video on Thursday (September 15) showing messages Drizzy allegedly sent to him on Instagram about making vegan cookies.
“Anthony! It’s Drizzy,” the message began. “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 (thanks for the kind words on Take Care and If You’re Reading This tho). But it is what it is, you know. Can always hope you’ll like the next one!”
It continued: “But I’m not messaging you about your videos. I’m actually messaging you cause I found a really great vegan cookie recipe I’d love you to try!”
The next message included a step-by-step guide to making vegan cookies including all the ingredients and instructions.
“I’d really appreciate it if you could give this a spin and let me know if it’s worth trying myself!” the message signed off. “Appreciate you! Drizzy out!”
Just hours after the video went live, Drake took to his Instagram Stories to fire back at Fantano, sharing real messages he had sent to “the Internet’s busiest music nerd.”
“Your existence is a light 1,” he wrote. “And the 1 is cause your alive. And cause you somehow wifed a black girl. I’m feeling a light to decent 1 on your existence.”
His messages reference the rating system Fantano uses for his album reviews.
Following Drake’s response, Anthony Fantano went on Instagram Live to speak on the exchange, taking jabs at Drizzy for being “salty” and “in his feelings.”
“One of the artists who I have reviewed the most over the years is Drake himself a.k.a. Champagne Papi,” he said. “And yeah, essentially what happened is that for reasons unknown to me, Drake was in his feelings, as he does tend to be, because that is his nature, that is his vibe, that is his style, that’s his whole thing. Being in his feelings, that’s his brand, you could say.
“He was in his feelings Wednesday night, very late into the evening, I was in this garage lifting some weights when I caught a DM request from Champagne Papi himself. I saw the DM request and I looked at it and yeah, it was a bit of a diss. It was a salty little DM, it was quite sad and unfortunate.”
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Fantano also called Drake “obsessed” for knowing his rating system and took shots at him for his alleged use of ghostwriters.
“A couple of things were running through my head,” he recalled. “One: ‘Why is Drake messaging me? I’m not 18 years of age. That’s kinda weird.’ Second thing I was thinking: ‘This man is familiar enough with me to know my rating system. Seems a little odd, seems a little obsessed.’
“The other thing that I was thinking is that, why did he say the ‘light one’ thing twice? Is that him trying to work a chorus into his song, is this a bit of a rough draft or something? I don’t know why he said that weak ass line two times. It also made me think, this is why he has ghostwriters.”
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that fantano dude is as cringy as it gets tbh, i dont even fuk wit drake ish, but rather him than the white melon head
How you fuck with someone then when they clap back say they in they feelings thats about as narcissistic as shit gets
Because he made a video as a joke saying Drake sent him a vegan cookie recipe which nobody would ever believe and Drake decided to “expose” the DM’s himself and they turned out to look so bad on his end lmao. His reaction was embarassing and he got destroyed in this situation
1.) Fantano was reviewing his music. That is not “fucking with someone”. He didn’t insult him personally, he did say he doesn’t like the music.
2.) The fact that Drake got so shook, that he apparently started watching a bunch of Fantano videos to get familiar with his rating system is a very clear indication that he got VERY MUCH “in his feels”.
3.) The disses themselves absolutely have this vibe of “let me get really familiar with this guy and then try to very specifically and cleverly insult him”. Problem is it just seems desperate and in the feels.
4.) The fact that Fantano made a video about Drake sharing a vegan cookie recipe was obviously a joke. The fact that Drake then felt “omg, no, people need to know that I dissed him” and then leaks his own tweets, is just the icing on the cake and just way too funny.
Drake is very flustered it seems. Get over yourself man
Not true, he called Drake a pedophile based on that weird millie bobby brown meme people on twitter made.
I see a strong 10 on carryin’ attention deficit for the melon!
The fake DMs were a joke. The fact that there was a “vegan cookie recipe” should make that blatantly obvious. Come on, y’all.
That’s some high level mental illness, and a horde of other mentally ill people are sitting around watching these people. Somebody needs to ban this clout chasing.
You really should remain silent.
This is so fucking funny.
drake the yellowist dude in wrap after onyx. Black girls are nice but ain’t all that though so what is drake’s point?
that’s your audience. mediocre white losers like Fantano. that’s your boss. not mine. not krs one boss. YOUR BOSS. hoes
the dude looks like his breath smells like trout all the time.
I DON’T FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH A DUDE LIKE FANTANO ARTICULATING WHAT MAKES AN ALBUM GOOD OR BAD. SORRY BUT I DON’T.
he even said in the live that that’s just his opinion. you should take his reviews light hearted cuz thats just some guy on the internet talking about music. stop get so butthurt by people on the internet just cuz they dont have the same opinion on an album that you like
I DON’T LIKE FANTANO’S OPINIONS BC HIS PERSPECTIVE DOESN’T RESONATE WITH ME. WHEN YOU WATCH SOMEONE LONG ENOUGH, YOU REALIZE THEY HAVE CERTAIN TASTES AND THEIR REVIEWS BECOME PREDICTABLE. CAN I JUST NOT LIKE SOMETHING WITHOUT BEING BUTTHURT OR A HATER?
Wow what a surprise, someone who is usually, black brings something about race again. And that into a thing that has nothing to do with anything that happened. Or did I miss what Fantanos black wife has to do with anything.
Both are clowns only Drake is dead serious about it….
I FOUND THAT INCREDIBLY SUSS AND AWKWARD TOO BUT YOU SAID IT BEST. DRAKE IS USUALLY BLACK LOL.
Yawn
Drake is such a goof for this. ‘Somehow wifed a black girl’ as if hes not mixed race or black girls are unattainable.