LET'S ARGUE: Denzel Curry Is Great

[@rsgtoastyomen4933]

“Denzel Curry is Great” And the sky is blue

[@Le_JYT]

Fr

[@dradennewberry3290]

Exactly, he’s a top 5 active rapper

[@SavannahKo-j1c]

Put Vince Staples and Little Simz in that list too

[@MFSQUILLIAM]

No cap😭

[@Ziggsters1515]

Love that app bro

[@themaddestvillain-g4q]

“Denzel Curry is great” is one of the coldest takes known to man

[@megaphatc4377]

Feeling colder than the arctic iykyk

[@supershygirl1680]

Colder than an Ice Age frfr

[@xTV0TheIMVUStomper]

Facts and the new BIG 3 is JID, Denzel Curry and Cordae

[@thecluckster3908]

@@xTV0TheIMVUStompernot in anyway shape or form, personally I find the “big 3” to be a designation and find it unnecessary to even find a new big three in the first place but there’s no way those 3 are more prominent that other rap artists.

[@megaphatc4377]

@@xTV0TheIMVUStompernah easily Kendrick over cordae

[@meowmeowmeow01]

I would say Denzel Curry is an 8/10 artist, Fantano.

[@Simpossible-uq3qf]

im sure he agrees

[@SavannahKo-j1c]

Run the Jewels too.

[@jghifiversveiws8729]

"You dropped tears to my shit and still gave me an 8."

[@cucumber2213]

@@jghifiversveiws8729 that was joey badass tho? right?

[@dvdwario6559]

agreed

[@UnorthodoxIndividual]

*Let's AGREE: Denzel Curry is Great

[@BigOwl51]

He’s good but he’s overrated at this point. People act like he’s the greatest rapper to ever walk the earth when really he’s just “the best SoundCloud rapper”, which is an extremely low bar. Edit: looks like I struck a nerve with the most sensitive fanbase on the internet (SoundCloud rap fans)

[@LABRADFORD10]

@@BigOwl51Don’t ever comment about music again

[@xTV0TheIMVUStomper]

Yes he is great great and great

[@BigOwl51]

@@LABRADFORD10so you’re saying Denzel is better than Kendrick, Biggie, Tupac, Nas and Ice Cube? Pure delusion. Opinion rejected.

[@markopolo-mkk]

​@BigOwl51 nobody even said that

[@danelyman]

Denzel is consistently one of the best rappers, regardless of what era he's in. If the Big Three marker wasn't so based on numbers, he'd for sure be in that conversation.

[@gagman6201]

heavy agree

[@BigManJayTee]

He IS in the Big Three now. He must

[@danielapro9755]

The Big Three is such bullshit. He's def on one of the most unique and innovative artists. TA13OO still sounds like it just came out and has surpassed the mumble rap era.

[@Ozdestro]

Denzel Curry, JPEGMAFIA and JID will be the next Big 3

[@ElloGovnaHipHop]

@@Ozdestro the are the big three of the ‘underground’, but they don’t have the popularity at the moment to be considered the big 3 of rap

[@kylebennett6836]

Rhyming a word with itself can be the greatest: “She got a light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson Got a dark-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson”

[@coenpelsrijcken8530]

Man, what an example

[@kugerblitz7388]

Another kanye line : When did I become A-list I wasn't even on a list

[@marpjc]

JME also got many verses and entire tracks all ending on same word

[@basic_chain]

Is that a Christ Dillinger lyric 💀

[@1venusflytrap]

@@basic_chain No lmfao its Kanye

[@vertaga]

a better argument would be that some of his projects are better than an 8/10

[@myweirdsecondchannelwithap9070]

Most of them

[@night4263]

@@myweirdsecondchannelwithap9070 Naah, maybe Imperial and definitely Melt My Eyez. but his other stuff ain't better than an 8

[@itssteakz6134]

@@night4263taboo???)

[@RayTheGayy]

Fancy seeing you here. also yes I would agree that would be a better argument

[@mikesullivan1306]

@@night4263taboo is his best album

[@isyrafafendi9524]

" Denzel Curry is Great" Ahh yes, every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.

[@tximinoman]

Wait what??? Why?? And how can we stop those minutes from dying??

[@Ehhhhhhh-kz9ch]

U2

[@OrphicIV]

@@Ehhhhhhh-kz9ch 😂😂

[@shadxw4831]

And grass is green, melon

[@khusharora69]

it can also be yellow, yk... so use a better metaphor next time😂

[@pretzels5839]

@@khusharora69🤓

[@Knightgob]

Not that much of his audience would know that

[@Croco_G]

@@pretzels5839 No he's right, i live around alot of grass and it's mostly brownish color. 🤓

[@Alex20830]

6:13 Bro I physically gasped when he said Brian Eno composed the sound for the Windows 95 music, I guess I learn new things every day

[@keaton4192]

When I first learned this it felt like a puzzle piece just snapped into place in my head and my vision became a little bit clearer

[@x_ch00F]

brian eno composed a lot of sounds for windows, and not just win95. haven't watched the vid yet but I imagine he doesn't mention this, apologies if he did, but here's a fun fact! if you do a fresh install of windows xp, then hunt down the actual audio files (I believe they are either mp3 or wav) that are used within the operating system, and look at their metadata, you can see that they were exported out of a cracked piece of audio software lmao. and that audio was composed by, you guessed it, brian eno.

[@earthgirdler23]

​@@x_ch00F tsk tsk naughty Beano

[@RockoRockoRocko]

@@x_ch00Fdo you know where exactly in XP those files are? I have an old laptop with XP installed.

[@x_ch00F]

@@RockoRockoRocko it's somewhere in the windows folder, %WINDIR%, I'm guessing yours is at C:\Windows. I don't have anything with XP installed so I can't check real quick but if you run a file search in that folder by extension and look for .mp3 or .wav, you should be able to find it.

[@maxpogfrog]

I really love that the take shouted out ZUU. ZUU is so unbelievably underrated and underappreciated, especially with amazing tracks like Ricky, Birdz, and Shake 88.

[@donnie1725]

Man, I love every Denzel project from Imperial onwards. But ZUU might be my most replayed of his albums. It really is just bangers on bangers on bangers. So underrated within his catalogue!

[@latiasite]

LET’S AGREE: Let’s disagree

[@wadekemmsies7180]

I agree

[@EyesDontCry]

I disagree

[@00pium_kingvampstan]

I don’t disagree nor agree

[@Gothstana]

I

[@NotevenTony]

ee

[@SubparLoki]

Denzel kinda has that Zach de La Rocha cadence and style on his hype stuff, reminds me a lot of rage and I love it

[@wongar1886]

You should listen to his Bulls On Parade cover if you haven't heard it

[@SubparLoki]

@ I love it. He did I against I too, also amazing

[@Elagabalus711]

3:30 on the politics front, I think that Chat Pile's "Why" is a great example of not having a fresh take, but just vividly expressing a valid political opinion. Like yeah. Why do people have to sleep outside? In our modern age with our current infrastructure and surplus of resources, why is that blatant of an example of inequality just allowed to persist? In short, W take from Fantano with good examples abounding.

[@JakeRanney]

Third option: "rhyming" a word with another word that looks like it would rhyme on paper but sounds different when you say it out loud

[@BigOwl51]

Do people actually care about rhyming in 2024? Are yall in 3rd grade? You need everything to sound like Humpty Dumpty or else it’s trash?

[@polar_]

@@BigOwl51 this is the most obvious rage bait of all time lol

[@sofdrink]

also known as slant rhyme

[@8thlvlMage]

@@BigOwl51 It's the whole challenge. The skill is in finding clever pieces to make the puzzle, to create something unique and interesting. That's the art and craft of it. If it doesn't rhyme at all that's its own form. Poetry has been around forever and people still like it. I guess we just want Humpty Dumpty that badly, huh? 😄

[@vippandabear2870]

Anyone with ears can agree with Denzel Curry is great. Coldest take ever Edit: after watching the video, this comment is not very relevant, sorry

[@NeutralMjolkHotel]

Did nobody in these comments actually watch the video?

[@tomaustinmedia]

@@NeutralMjolkHotelYeah they’re just proving fantano’s point about music discourse too lol, that wasn’t the argument at all

[@differentname6904]

and it’s the top comment rn 😹

[@vippandabear2870]

@@NeutralMjolkHotel your right, I did comment before I watched the video and just saw the title. Sorry, I now know they were talking about different things in the video

[@plotinuswashere]

@@vippandabear2870 *you're

[@Rebazar]

Reminder to the freaks: the 10 point review scale has 10 numbers in it, and 8 is a pretty good one.

[@benjiusofficial]

idk, 3 is pretty cool; it looks like a butt or a cat mouth.

[@jacobdalton6603]

erm actually it has 11

[@n0tg]

Denzel is my first introduction to good rap music (i know it's probably weird, I don't live in an english speaking country). And i fell in love with taboo the first time i hear it and saw the concept.

[@maebell1274]

Where are u from

[@n0tg]

@maebell1274 Asia

[@mantisnt1335]

More subway surfer gameplay please I was nodding off in the first 5 seconds

[@MinecraftRick]

11:53 We need the sequel album.

[@Turbos-b3z]

Music discourse is so goddamn frustrating when it comes to being positive or negative. Not disagreeing but hurling insults and getting way too offended over push back. Pathetic. Also anyone that says U LIKE THIS U PROBABLY ENJOY BIEBER OR DRAKE LMAO" is unable to come up with anything worth reading.

[@ma-soki]

absolutely, its like, genuinely infuriating when people are just midless and go to hate shit, not even being introspective on their own takes, completely walled off from any sort of discussion while being EXTRMELY overt with their dislikes. hatred propagates faster than enjoyment. I hate it.

[@Blockidk-i1n]

Yeah when someone responds to someone saying "I'm a fan but this song was mid imo" with "ok drake fan" or something, my faith in humanity crashes at jet speed back into the bin

[@vermiform]

It makes genuine discourse pretty much impossible online. No discussion, just clowns rushing to respond with a pithy or dismissive clapback to get that thumbs up. Everything just has to be _the best_ or _the worst_ or _the least_ or _the most_ and if you don't like what I like then you have no taste and if you like that artist then your opinion doesn't matter. It's the same with video games, maybe worse. It's like, where can we go to talk about and discuss the things we _do_ like and recommend shit? I barely engage anymore because it's so rare to have a civil conversation.

[@Jakejackson1980]

You probably like drake bro

[@percivalyracanth1528]

Sounds like sth a Drake-listener would say 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨

[@AzraelNewtype0079]

Not here to defend music discourse on social media, but people making their enjoyment of one genre to the exclusion of everything else their personality is basically just what every scene was like in the pre-streaming era. Nothing is new.

[@Acro_YT]

I've seen these types of people, and every single one of them were obnoxious.

[@8thlvlMage]

Those opening comments are the closest thing to get me to break out my synths again and finish a track. I probably still won't, but they're inspiring!

[@Ravensregen]

Keep bringing em Fantano. In a couple years they'll have slightly different opinions. not being so close minded and some will grow up and open up to positive perspectives on different music takes. I wouldn't always agree with the takes from Fantano but now since then I accept them for what they are. Great quality videos!

[@cloudair4154]

denzel curry's black balloons song is madd underrated... excellent song.. he got a weak phoned in verse from goldlink, but it still wasn't enough to derail the song

[@epicparkourdewd]

That whole album's majorly underrated, pretty much bangin from start to finish

[@AndyWardinho]

The feature on that song makes me mad fr

[@michael2026]

11:00 I find good success sorting comments by new its fun to compare the "relevant" and recent

[@JoshuaAmericana]

same, its the best way to sort any comment section

[@gamakujira64e23]

It’s a good way to find the most unhinged comments too

[@oB19o]

Denzel's record in the new JPEG album has me so fucking hype every fucking time

[@gnarsly]

LET'S AGREE

[@blehbleh01]

GLASS BEACH SPOTTED

[@gnarsly]

​@@blehbleh01plastic death is my aoty

[@imago8343]

GLASS BEACH AHHHHHHH I LOVE THAT BANDD

[@seabshop]

GLEACHER SPOTTED!!!!

[@x_ch00F]

I agree that the minecraft soundtrack deserves more credit and the brian eno comparison is spot on, to the point where I recommend music for airports to anyone who likes the minecraft soundtrack. not sure I agree with the take about cultural spread though. "ambient music" effectively didn't exist before music for airports, as in the term didn't exist, and it wasn't considered to be a genre of music that you listened to intently. the minecraft soundtrack wouldn't exist if not for music for airports. you could say the difference is that minecraft introduced ambient music to a much larger range of listeners and music for airports introducted ambient music to music culture itself.

[@thatjosiahburns]

11:23 I agree with this. I feel like back in the 2010s the world was just more connected when it came to pop culture. Music videos would get a billion views, everyone was seeing the new marvel films. Nowadays everyone is so sectioned off.

[@noahreeverts465]

The worm is gearing up to take full control, the worm has insatable hunger, the worm will devour us all.

[@TheRandomhobo123]

RFK Jr is actually Letto II from Dune lol

[@Whitiful]

Still not talking about the Halsey album i guess

[@alexhooper8187]

I popped when the Eno Windows sound dropped

[@seamusoco]

I always appreciate that the take featured in the title is the first one discussed

[@seanposner8884]

5:48 or if that word is homonymic. That is some of my favorite when it makes sense. A solid 2 or 3 line rhyme scheme w the same pronunciation or word a la Carter V bangs hard.

[@TheZigzagman]

Dan Bull wrote one of his video game raps in all homophones a million years ago. It's way more hype than it has any right to be lol.

[@snowterran]

Would argue with that title? Denzel is so fucking good

[@sundog1979]

I'm with you, Fantano. Every time I read about these appointments, my heart breaks a little more. I guess all you can do in the face of that is find a way to be happy. Keep doing what you love, speak your mind, live well, stay strong.

[@natonic2796]

0:25 never agreed with a statement more in my whole life

[@ethanvilla4418]

Thanks for those opening comments. I've been in a daze feeling the same way even before that night. People's trollish idiotic degeneracy is winning out over measured critical thinking. There's just too many dangerously stupid people.

[@theaidadmin]

Lol what a terminally online dweeb. You have been in a daze? Get off of twitter you baby

[@FunkyGibbonTonka]

*Muscle Man voice* YOU KNOW WHO ELSE HAS BEEN IN A DAZE FEELING THE SAME WAY EVEN BEFORE THAT NIGHT? Seriously though, I don't disagree.

[@thisguy4911]

How bout you elaborate last time I checked Dems let men in women sports how isn't that degeneracy.

[@RuddFoxx]

He got 19K dislikes for doing that JS

[@ethanvilla4418]

@@RuddFoxx From what types of people though? Hopefully one day we'll evolve to recognize that "likes" doesn't equal to being on the right side of an issue/opinion. We'll just let history decide who was correct. And just remember that there are a LOT of people online who have a vested interest in our country failing, are incredibly uninformed/ignorant and/or stand to gain from wholly corrupt administrations. Carry on defending though. JS

[@mosescamacho1245]

I remember a time where I’d see posts that say “who’s the most underrated rapper” the top comment was always Denzel Curry

[@sleep6837]

I....agree!

[@Rryiac]

He is so underrated and I hate hh media they literally pushing the same rappers over and over and ignoring denzel and jid

[@TheNerdySportsGuy]

That intro is just my entire mood 24/7

[@viv_in_real_life]

he in the big three tbh. mine is kenny, tyler, and curry. heavy biased but also nah this is objectively right

[@owenbradshaw1535]

HOT TAKE KANYE WAS HIS BEST IN 2018. His best album (kids see ghost) came out and he produced many other great projects. But mostly kids see ghost, one of the few times Kanye revisited a past sound and he blended what 808 and yeezus soo well. Can’t beat kids see ghost!!!

[@dizzytitan815]

Love the intro ❤

[@ryannelson1297]

One of my favorite "political" songs in recent memory is 'Why' by Chat Pile. It is an incredibly simple track in both message and structure. It simply asks why do people have to live outside? It doesn't go that deep into the issue, and I think that is a huge strength of the song because most people allow their feelings to determine their political stances anyway, so the most effective way of getting a message across is to keep it simple and simply ask questions that will force the listener to think and feel about an issue and arrive to the conclusion you're trying to guide them to by themselves.

[@anotherslowtown9601]

"Denzel Curry is great" got me almost freezing solid from how cold a take it is

[@ayyyayay]

a cool thing ab zel is him being effortlessly versitile, i first listened to him for that raw angry hype energy, but i didnt even notice his switch up of sound in mmesyf because of how good it still is

[@Lckzzduh]

A lets argue video and yet the hottest take here is that he called hot dogs “shitty”

[@birkobird]

remember he’s vegan, and vegan hot dogs are godawful

[@epicparkourdewd]

The wrongest take too smh

[@Lckzzduh]

@@birkobird nah your so right bro😭😭

[@ow7365]

1:08 for clickbait Denzel Curry cold take and response

[@SubparLoki]

Defo repeating and rhyming the same words, if I can complete a rhyme I feel snazzy and cool and like 5head. If they use the same words again and again to rhyme with each other it just seems like lazy writing and a way to extend run time. This is partially why I don’t like Eminem

[@re_detach]

The Cal Hot Fellow remix at the end of the video was 100% worth waiting for

[@bekkadalcovers2041]

Hot take, but one hot minute is one of the most underrated albums oat. Songs like my friends, tearjerker and falling in to grace are amazing, and navarro does a great job on the album

[@LilSake5700]

0:27 I couldn’t agree more

[@eotheka]

rfk jr kept roadkill in his neighbors refrigerator

[@yukpuddle]

That Windows sound was Brian Eno?!?!

[@dtanaka869-d]

LET'S ARGUE: This whole video feels like a "Let's Agree"

[@KingDreams]

"Denzel Curry is Great" And the grass is green

[@otis6878]

Damn I didn't know fantano would diss Indian food like that

[@definitelydoctorproctor]

The next video on my autoplay is “grass is green”

[@Whip001]

"Denzel curry is great" understatement of the millenium

[@YungDenTV]

Yoo what was that heat at the end that hot dinner track 🔥🔥

[@CrustyDonutts]

Denzel is only going to get better. The dude is intense, he pursues his dreams and creative passions relentlessly and we are truly honored that there is only going to be more great artwork. Denzel, Forever.

[@warshack378]

Zell is one of the greatest of all time, and some people still can’t recognize it.

[@Dizzy_Drizzy1]

For the first time in forever I agree completely 🙏😭

[@billygoodin6194]

11:38 i try to make an active effort to listen to stuff that I wouldn’t regularly listen to, its hard though with these damn algorithms in general trying to tell us what to watch, listen to and read all the time.

[@job4ama]

“Denzel Curry is great” And cells are made of organelles

[@JRMH-X]

I've been on this hill since ZUU and I only get more comfortable with each project since

[@jakeezetci]

didn’t know we are back to let’s agree

[@jerodwolf5582]

Melon when discussing Denzel Curry essentially says, "gr8 m8 8/8"

[@ShadeCandle]

One of my favorite cases of words being rhymed with themselves is "Henry Lee" by Nick Cave, in which every line ends with the same word as the preceding line, and it's so powerful the way it's done. Simplicity really makes the day, often.

[@Punk-Mask]

Yay he picked my comment

[@TheRareVideosXL]

Great content as always.

[@skicherry14LR]

Glad we can all agree 👍

[@YaBoySteve-SR7]

When I read “Denzel Curry is great” I thought this was a return to the Let’s Agree days.

[@tomjohns2208]

Being able to predict a lyric before it happens is not an issue. It’s no different than able to predict the next thing to happen when watching a tv show or movie. It doesn’t take away from the moment, In some cases it can even enhance the moment because have the excitement of knowing it’s coming.

[@Ozdestro]

LET’S ARGUE: Puss In Boots 2 Is A Great Movie

[@vermiform]

@@Ozdestro Paddington 2

[@LoganHosty]

“Denzel Curry is great” yeah the sun is bright too

[@pegatrisedmice]

I keep going back to melt my eyes, it's such an honest and fun record, just puts me in a good mood any time i listen to it

[@djmasshysteria4833]

Denzel Curry has one of the most consistent death discography in hip-hop period I didn’t like King of the mischievous south at five I don’t get me wrong it’s probably my least favourite album from him in in terms of going back to it, but it still a good solid project and his other album a great melt your eyes see your future is his best in my opinion 💯💯

[@KowjjaMusic]

i wonder if Punk-Mask's comment was related to the recent Daft Punk controversy

[@potatoslicelol]

Let’s Argue: Grass is a plant.

[@gnomeneef3800]

I love fantano’s adult swim influences still being so prominent throughout the years.

[@noahmarks732]

Rfk is a crazy pick for the NHS, but Matt Gatz as AG is just as insane a pick arguably

[@Jakejackson1980]

The guy who hates MSM chose a guy from MSM to be in has cabinet. Very insane hypocrisy

[@Gsantana2k]

you realize an artist is great when you listen to his early work and it is actually good

[@whiskeywayne91]

I'm always listening to you Anthony, how else would I form my musical opinions

[@mariokarter13]

"Comment sections trend toward being short and quippy." Because no one wants to spend half an hour writing an essay for KZbin to delete it immediately because in paragraph 3 sentence 5 you tripped a word filter.

[@michaelbenham3603]

Haven’t heard that Cal cut before 🔥

[@drhall343]

I love that he's talking about Denzel eras like they're Doctor Who actors. 😂

[@juamje-b4i]

i'm glad fantano really self-reflected at the start of the video

[@DilemmaDreamer]

Who remembers when he was in the anime Carole & Tuesday? He rapped in it

[@soulance8342]

This isn't even a debate man, I've been a fan for years now

[@ratpainkillers]

loved that intro.

[@M-eye-uh-rawr-D]

Dear Tony "Orange" Fanta: lighten up, bub.

[@JohnMae-r1q]

In other words grass is green. Denzel is one of my favorite artists. Melt my eyez, see your future cold blooded soul was insane. I didn’t think walkin could get more beautiful, but when I heard that jazz beat my jaw was dropped.

[@ModuliOfRiemannSurfaces]

I’m not that into hip hop generally but that RATM cover of his made me a fan lol

[@GamerIsASlur]

Alligator Bites is a 9/10 and works as an album, not just a mixtape.

[@aledandrian]

Melon’s debut into avant-garde independent cinema was as beautiful and profound as I had hoped

[@reeceloomis673]

I would agree with the title, but Denzel decided to skip Denver for the second time in a row on his tour