but then he liked good news and the rest of the album of circles. He favors vocal maturity, innovation, a lil music theory and production value, he talks about how it was very specific and well thought out for the entire album of circles to be close to the ear like mac is just sitting down with you at the end. personally, I love swimming, but I can see why he didn't like it, the kick was funky, like there was bass but it wasn't really resonating right, the perc is kind of annoying and the vocals could've been a lil more clear, and while they we're all choices, I can see what is happening in his mind after watching this list, but yes....emotionally. MAC MILLER SWIMMING MAKES ME CRY
Fr it has some fun poppy songs to dance to. Definitely not normal Chance but i can bop out to All Day Long, I Got You, Hot Shower, Let’s Go on The Run (ignoring the horrible lyric quality of course), and We Go High is genuinely a good song
@@calebdkhospe nowadays it’s hard for even a decent musician to make an album that is legitimately not good. So when it happens that a very well recognized artist makes an album that is extremely mediocre, people treat the album as one of the worst things that has happened in modern music.
@@samatomsgaming7057 liking logic doesn’t mean you have bad taste. You are a moron by judging someone’s music taste based on a fucking profile picture of a rapper you don’t like.
Swimming is still the worst score he's given because he LOVED circles, which is literally the second part in the intended trilogy, like how can you hate swimming and love circles? Edit: fuckin knew it
It's fucking crazy right? I seriously don't understand, even if he wasn't a fan of it, the production and flows alone should be above a 5 let alone a damn 3.
because of how popular he is i genuinely do wonder if his tpab review affected the tpab aoty review to not tie with gkmc by influencing other peoples opinons.
IGOR aint a rap album tyler confirmed that in his after grammys backstage speech. it is soul/R&B with light rap touches in tracks like NEW MAGIC WAND, EARFQUAKE, and WHATSGOOD.
To be fair tho, camp is kinda underwhelming compared to the other works by Childish Gambino, although personally I do think that giving it a 2 is a crime
Loved List: 0:14: TPAB - Kendrick Lamar 0:41: KIDS SEE GHOSTS - KIDS SEE GHOSTS 1:15: The Money Store - Death Grips 1:42: 4eva Is A Mighty Long Time - Big K.R.I.T. 2:41: Atrocity Exhibition - Danny Brown 3:09: Some Rap Songs - Earl Sweatshirt 3:46: We got it from Here... - ATCQ 4:16: Piñata - Freddie Gibbs & Madlib 4:46: SATURATION - BROCKHAMPTON 5:22: IGOR - Tyler, The Creator 5:52: CLPPNG - clipping. 6:23: good kid, m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar 7:21: The Life Of Pablo - Kanye West 7:52: The Impossible Kid - Aesop Rock 8:39: Run The Jewels 2 - Run The Jewels 9:11: TA1300 - Denzel Curry Hated List: 0:29: Total Xanarchy - Lil Xan 0:58: The Big Day - Chance The Rapper 1:28: Revival - Eminem 2:01: Bad Vibes Forever - XXXTentacion 2:57: COWYS Pt. 1 - Lil Peep 3:29: Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven - Kid Cudi 3:59: Swimming - Mac Miller 4:30: CoaDM - Logic 5:07: Camp - Childish Gambino 5:37: Professional Rapper - Lil Dicky 6:07: Pegasus - Trippie Redd 6:53: The Sunset Tapes - Jaden 7:36: Drip or Drown 2 - Gunna 8:24: Care Package - Drake 8:55: My Turn - Lil Baby 9:35: Virgo World - Lil Tecca
This a hella old video, but this honestly reinspired my passion for rap. I discovered big Krit through this and he made me get back in to hip hop. So thank you mr fluffy pants.
Glad to see Antwon revisit Swimming and give it the listen it deserved. Not sure why it took so long for it to click for him, as the themes of the album were apparent to me on first listen. Glad he eventually understood the album, much less loved it!
Gotta say just outta spite for these anthony fantano compilations, This is one of the best if not THE best fantano compilation, Just because you show snippets of the music from each album
I still cant be convinced IGOR is not Tyler’s best album. Edit: I should of phrased it differently, what I meant is that IGOR is my favourite Tyler project.
Im glad Aesop Rock is on this list (as loved), dude is underrated as hell, The Impossible Kid is my favorite album ever, same with RTJ2, dope album as well.
Not really. He gave a bunch of "mumble rap" projects a good score. He gave future's wzrd a 7, young thug's so much fun these are just the ones onn top of my head. Those are two rappers that everyone consider "mumble" While he generally really dislikes emo rap, he gave the new juice wrld album 7 which is pretty good
I've been aware of the praises on 4EVA... but I haven't had the time to try it bc I didn't really know his crafts that much. When I've heard the clip of Big Bank (which is one of my faves on the album) though, I was finally interested... and I've been so frustrated for not digging into Big KRIT's stuff until now. Such a great hiphop album. Thanks for this vid for making me try it. lol
Aesop Rock insanely underrated in general aside from his pre None Shall Pass/Skelethon work. I'm still shocked that he reviews Aesop's albums given how few people actually talk about him. Aside from like 2 songs though, Impossible Kid is perfect.
Yeah, it’s not hip-hop, people put artists in the box of one genre a lot so even if they make something outside of that genre it gets wrongly put into that box. For example, Kanye with 808s, which is almost all singing, being called hip-hop.
Melon still tripping for that Swimming score
i know write
I can never take him seriously after that.
@@tart8228 then why are you here looking at Fantano related content. Kinda weird
but then he liked good news and the rest of the album of circles. He favors vocal maturity, innovation, a lil music theory and production value, he talks about how it was very specific and well thought out for the entire album of circles to be close to the ear like mac is just sitting down with you at the end. personally, I love swimming, but I can see why he didn't like it, the kick was funky, like there was bass but it wasn't really resonating right, the perc is kind of annoying and the vocals could've been a lil more clear, and while they we're all choices, I can see what is happening in his mind after watching this list, but yes....emotionally. MAC MILLER SWIMMING MAKES ME CRY
Definitely
if you notice, the favorite albums are albums he really likes, and the least favorite albums are albums he really dislikes
Thanks man almost didn’t notice
Interesting observation
No
Wow I honestly didn't see it until you mentioned it.
Big if true
It’s amazing to me how melon’s opinions are always like, dead on, or entirely fucking wrong.
this
Opinions can’t be wrong
@@ProdLucio Objectively speaking, giving Swimming a 3 is a wrong lol.
@@brendanmcdonough8397 How can be wrong xd, it's art, art is one of the less objective things on earth
IMO most of his opinions are close to correct (in other words, close to my own opinion).
This reminded me The Big Day existed I genuinely forgot about it.
I dont think it was as horrible as people say it is but i dont like it either
Fr it has some fun poppy songs to dance to. Definitely not normal Chance but i can bop out to All Day Long, I Got You, Hot Shower, Let’s Go on The Run (ignoring the horrible lyric quality of course), and We Go High is genuinely a good song
@@calebdkhospe nowadays it’s hard for even a decent musician to make an album that is legitimately not good. So when it happens that a very well recognized artist makes an album that is extremely mediocre, people treat the album as one of the worst things that has happened in modern music.
The what?
Yikes, didn’t know it was that bad.
It may sound weird but this video put me on a path to loving hip hop
You should update this and add Swimming as one of his favorites since he re-reviewed it 😂
Can’t believe he gave Swimming a 3
I don’t think anyone’s opinion can ever be wrong but that review was extremely dismissive and bad
Awesome profile picture
@JoeMama everyone can have differing opinions, buts another to be so dismissive of a piece of art because you are just a cynical person
POV your mad because someone doesn’t have the same opinion as you
that's why he killed himself
Swimming is wild
he went back on it and gave it an 8
@@SlurpyTheDog oh yeah forgot about that
This vid was blocked and now it’s back again, idk wtf is up with UA-cam, but I’m glad cause I enjoy watching it
this man is the exact reason why us musicians don't fuck with critics
that's the reason your music sucks
Peep all his interviews with artists he gave low ratings. Maybe your just insecure 🥶
TPAB is one of the best albums of all time, not just rap. Such a unique and well-executed concept
Nice pfp
Angelic 2 The Core begs to differ. Corey Feldman made THE greatest album of all time. Not up for discussion since this is factual information.
Yet you have logic as your pfp, ironic
@@samatomsgaming7057 best and favourite are two different things lmao
@@samatomsgaming7057 liking logic doesn’t mean you have bad taste. You are a moron by judging someone’s music taste based on a fucking profile picture of a rapper you don’t like.
Notice how many of the least faves artists have passed away since? The curse of the Melon Diss?
melon killed them
xxxtentacion already had died…
ksg saved cudi
Drake better watch out after clb
@@patrick.3 dude 😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣
He didn't give Denzel a 9 or 10 because he did that fortnite dance on clout cobain
fair
Shut up private
@@duppy404 c'mon we both love Denzel :)
Damn if only he did the roblox /e dance command instead he would get the score he deserved.
@@travisscottburber5719 facts
One of Melons biggest W’s was the fact that he changed his swimming score to a 8
It was fine at 3
No joke most of my friends are probably gonna fw all the low score ones and call all the good albums "trash"
melon had some valid opinions BUT GIVING MBDTF A 6 AND SWIMMING A 3 IS UNACCEPTABLE
My Bitch's Down To Fuck deserves a 10
Frrrr
@@jorssu13 he ment my beautiful dark twisted fanisy
@@GutchVader i though he meant "My Black Dick Throbs Forcibly"
Both 9+
Swimming is still the worst score he's given because he LOVED circles, which is literally the second part in the intended trilogy, like how can you hate swimming and love circles?
Edit: fuckin knew it
I hope Melon will give a Redux for Swimming and sort this out, @Mackle
It's fucking crazy right? I seriously don't understand, even if he wasn't a fan of it, the production and flows alone should be above a 5 let alone a damn 3.
Also professional rapper
Swimming was better then circles to
Because Swimming has nowhere near the sheer amount of focus, balance and songwriting finesse that Circles has
Most of them very accurate but oof he did Swimming dirty
i’m sorry it was decent at best
fr
@@bdimess shut the fuck up
@@viktorgunnarsson9156 it’s an opinion why u mad 😭😭
@@bdimess bruh you changed your comment after I commented on it. Stay in your lane
ReviveASS fr.
because of how popular he is i genuinely do wonder if his tpab review affected the tpab aoty review to not tie with gkmc by influencing other peoples opinons.
Finally, I know what music I'm allowed to listen to. Thanks man!
Bro said swimmings a 3 even though he cried to it 😮
He cried to circles, but at least nos he thinks it is a 8 album
6:45 yeah… not a jaden fan anymore
btw he did a revision to give swimming an 8 instead of a 3
the mac one is ridiculous
Absolutely criminal you didn’t include a single Nav project in this list
IGOR aint a rap album tyler confirmed that in his after grammys backstage speech. it is soul/R&B with light rap touches in tracks like NEW MAGIC WAND, EARFQUAKE, and WHATSGOOD.
Yup
Yeah that garbage album still won best rap album at the Grammy lol Cordae was robbed
@Alan Hernandez cry more
@Alan Hernandez cry
@Alan Hernandez cry
I'll never forgive Fantano for giving Camp a 2
To be fair tho, camp is kinda underwhelming compared to the other works by Childish Gambino, although personally I do think that giving it a 2 is a crime
@@alfabet_ that’s fair
Seriously! Do people actually hate on the album cause I always thought it was good, I'd give it a 6-7/10
@@joelpugh7926 There is a few highlights, but the album overall is like a 6/10 for me
I watched his review in its entirety and I basically agreed with everything he said but I still like the album anyways lol
He actually changed his verdict on Swimming by Mac Miller.
It was a masterpiece of an album💯💯
where was rodeo
personally my favourite rap album is Nostalgia Critic's The Wall. strang 10en easily
For me its Recovery 20/10
@@grandtheftak3666 mid album
@@gameofvelets6421 nah top album
@@grandtheftak3666 mid asf
@@SistersOfMercyLover nah I’m negl to you homie it’s a top album
I love the money store so much
That Jaden bar was uncalled for 😭💀
meow
shut up
Its a Genius Shrek reference Jaden deserves a ten
fantano tripping on camp and swimming.
he put TA1300 over camp AND swimming 😭
ta1300 is goated tho
the explosion after he says “not good” always cracks me up 😂
TA1300 DESERVES A 9
I already knew about Swimming, but Camp getting a 2 brought out genuine anger.
Yea fr fr
It's a fuckin opinion... on the internet. Chill the fuck out bro
Was looking for this
I miss “By the time I get to Phoenix” from Injury Reserve group. Awesome album and Fantano gave 9 on this.
So Fantano give swimming a 3, but Circles brought him to tears?
Good news brought him to tears, then gave it a 6
@@cameronpitcher4024 I think Fantano has perfectly valid criticisms, but his ratings are so wack
@@andrewshea2197 I think its the way you view it. For example a 5 for you may seem like he doesnt like the album, but for him it means its average
@@pp-zq1je 3 definitely means he doesnt like it
Ya he’s a bitch for that
Loved List:
0:14: TPAB - Kendrick Lamar
0:41: KIDS SEE GHOSTS - KIDS SEE GHOSTS
1:15: The Money Store - Death Grips
1:42: 4eva Is A Mighty Long Time - Big K.R.I.T.
2:41: Atrocity Exhibition - Danny Brown
3:09: Some Rap Songs - Earl Sweatshirt
3:46: We got it from Here... - ATCQ
4:16: Piñata - Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
4:46: SATURATION - BROCKHAMPTON
5:22: IGOR - Tyler, The Creator
5:52: CLPPNG - clipping.
6:23: good kid, m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar
7:21: The Life Of Pablo - Kanye West
7:52: The Impossible Kid - Aesop Rock
8:39: Run The Jewels 2 - Run The Jewels
9:11: TA1300 - Denzel Curry
Hated List:
0:29: Total Xanarchy - Lil Xan
0:58: The Big Day - Chance The Rapper
1:28: Revival - Eminem
2:01: Bad Vibes Forever - XXXTentacion
2:57: COWYS Pt. 1 - Lil Peep
3:29: Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven - Kid Cudi
3:59: Swimming - Mac Miller
4:30: CoaDM - Logic
5:07: Camp - Childish Gambino
5:37: Professional Rapper - Lil Dicky
6:07: Pegasus - Trippie Redd
6:53: The Sunset Tapes - Jaden
7:36: Drip or Drown 2 - Gunna
8:24: Care Package - Drake
8:55: My Turn - Lil Baby
9:35: Virgo World - Lil Tecca
Thank you btw
Hero 👑
He was tripping on that Mac album
Nope.
He gone get over it
@@tallestgoose1570 You're projecting, get over it.
BIG TRIPPING!
No it wasn't that good
4:12 what in the hell is that
A great album
Can't read?
He's talking about his haircut
Can’t believe Fantano gave 17 by X a 2
This a hella old video, but this honestly reinspired my passion for rap. I discovered big Krit through this and he made me get back in to hip hop. So thank you mr fluffy pants.
Smh swimming was fire
You know you dun goofed when melon starts your review with the words “This new…”
"IT'S GONNA BE A 10 BABY, HE'S WEARING THE YELLA."
He gave Swimming a 3?!
Glad to see Antwon revisit Swimming and give it the listen it deserved. Not sure why it took so long for it to click for him, as the themes of the album were apparent to me on first listen. Glad he eventually understood the album, much less loved it!
3:57 still salty about this
Good news, he redux reviewed the album and gave a more respectable 8. Someone finally slapped the sense into him.
All of a sudden these are my favorite and least favorite rap albums
you hate srs and tpab?
@@volta6525 damn you really don't know how english works
Those are albums lol some rap songs and you know what tpab is
@@shoreZ they are acronyms like lol and brb
Lol= laugh out loud brb= be right back
Care package at 2 is criminal
The cover tho is truly ass
2:02 I can understand why x never released this shit when he was alive oh my god
that big krit album was amazing
Whatever happened to him
I’ve noticed a pattern where fantanos fav albums are also FluffyPants52’s favourite albums
they just like fantastic albums
Where is jpegmafia’s veteran it’s placed higher than the majority of those albums in his favorites of the decade
This video came out 2 months ago.
@@RadioSurge Veteran came out 3 years ago.
True
@@meltedsnowman9637 holy shit was that ratio clean, 0-100
0-139@@aquacyanide
1:14 Death Grips
That peep rating was a crime.
3:22 that’s grunge not rap
Gotta say just outta spite for these anthony fantano compilations, This is one of the best if not THE best fantano compilation, Just because you show snippets of the music from each album
9:35 he couldnt have said it better, that just sounds like every song with similar beat and flow that I've not cared for on the radio
The fact that he gave the life of Pablo a higher rating than mbdtf us actually crazy
Love both albums, so I don't think he's that wrong on that. But MBDTF is easily an 8.
@@lugarespecial yes
That swimming score is just wrong. Glad melon head came around to liking it.
I still cant be convinced IGOR is not Tyler’s best album.
Edit: I should of phrased it differently, what I meant is that IGOR is my favourite Tyler project.
wolf
It is
To many negatives here it’s confusing
Im glad Aesop Rock is on this list (as loved), dude is underrated as hell, The Impossible Kid is my favorite album ever, same with RTJ2, dope album as well.
I may not agree with the Melon on everything, but I cannot agree with him more on To Pimp A Butterfly. That album slaps.
7:52 why did he rate this bullshit higher than camp
Because its great
@@Superweathershieldit’s not
@@rxzmuvv3288 not everybody is fan of nerdy rap
8:50 insane to think this guy is the biggest donor to cop city in Atlanta and does performances to fundraise for them
Swimming doesn’t deserve anything under an eight at LEAST
No :)
For em it’s a light 8
No :)
Seeing the Freddie Gibbs review took me back to a simpler time
you can tell he loves lyrical rap but hates mumble/emo rap
Not really. He gave a bunch of "mumble rap" projects a good score. He gave future's wzrd a 7, young thug's so much fun these are just the ones onn top of my head. Those are two rappers that everyone consider "mumble"
While he generally really dislikes emo rap, he gave the new juice wrld album 7 which is pretty good
Cause thinking is better than putting your designer jeans through a heavy wash cycle cause you shit them.
the Lil Peep Not Good is one of the biggest injustices in fantano history
tbh i like come over when you're sober and swimming
"Strong 0"😂
That swimming review hit me so fast holy shit I didn't know he gave it such a low score
FANTANO GAVE SWIMMING AN 8 WE WIN THESE
Everybody gangsta till melon puts on the red flannel
Listen camp is pretty bad but we all gotta admit les is a vibe
I wouldn’t class Speedin bullet 2 heaven as a rap album
Or music
i wouldn't class IGOR as a rap album either
@@Designed1 why not? That shit is def rap?
Idk why but I feel the need to agree
@@HasanVancouver bro tyler legit said it himself that IGOR is not rap 💀
that xxxtentation album is great
I've been aware of the praises on 4EVA... but I haven't had the time to try it bc I didn't really know his crafts that much. When I've heard the clip of Big Bank (which is one of my faves on the album) though, I was finally interested... and I've been so frustrated for not digging into Big KRIT's stuff until now. Such a great hiphop album. Thanks for this vid for making me try it. lol
I’m super glad you checked it out and enjoyed it! It’s one of my personal favorites!
Big KRIT is in my top 5 favorite rappers easily. So many fucking jams on that album. Get Away is one of the greatest feel-good hype songs ever.
when i saw the score for camp my jaw DROPPED
The Impossible Kid might be the most underrated hip-hop album of the 2010’s and Get Out of the Car is one of my favorite hip-hop songs of all time
Aesop Rock insanely underrated in general aside from his pre None Shall Pass/Skelethon work. I'm still shocked that he reviews Aesop's albums given how few people actually talk about him. Aside from like 2 songs though, Impossible Kid is perfect.
how kid cudi has a favorite and a least favorite?? (kids see ghosts and speedin bullet 2 heaven)
Bcuz hes that guy
imagine being so wrong about Swimming ....
IT Hurt to watch
I cried a lil tbh
POV your mad because someone doesn’t have the same opinion
@@ProdLucio good job smooth brain you nailed it! spot on analytical skills
@@ProdLucio you’re a genius 😱😱🤯
I just don’t understand how people actually like Death Grips
@@Val_D Punk Weight is a Banger it's undeniable.
Revival is heavily slept on
Is speeding bullet to heaven even hip hop? It feels more like grunge or punk.
Yeah, it’s not hip-hop, people put artists in the box of one genre a lot so even if they make something outside of that genre it gets wrongly put into that box. For example, Kanye with 808s, which is almost all singing, being called hip-hop.
Yeah it's definitely more of an indie rock album there is literally zero rapping
@@Justin-pd8io nah tlop is a radio album
Igor is one of my favourite albums ever it's just amazing
What a story, Mark.
GREY area - Little Simz got a 9, why isn’t it on here????
Cause its underrated NGAB by slowthai isnt here either
Cause girls are icky
Cudi is on both ends of the spectrum
Swimming is so good
You forgot to add every single Nav album as melons least favourite rap albums
It hurts my soul he gave House of balloons a 3
How that is the weekends masterpiece
@@inkgeneral124 Getting a 3 isn't good, considering House of balloons deserves an 8-9
@@codywright7932 im pretty sure he put it on his albums of the decade list and says its his worst list
@@codywright7932 HoB was mediocre. The Weeknd, in general, is mediocre. Maybe a strong 4.
Camp and swimming were SO MISTREATED
what does bro see in death grips
amazing music.
istg, i love almost all of this mans favourite albums so i go listen to death grips and what the fuck is this
@@HarithaKandalla it’ll click one day
Amazing music
Relevant but cryptic lyricism. Unmatched, otherworldly production.
How the FUCK is my turn in his least
The money store is not rap
Bro, the industrial rap exist
Whats next, Clipping isn't rap as well?
@@hawkeyedsentinel4648 clipping is rap for me but death gribs not
@@Flemlopez 🤓🤓🤓