Anthony Fantano Trayvon Martin / Racist Slur Controversy

Anthony Fantano Trayvon Martin / Racist Slur Controversy

The Anthony Fantano Trayvon Martin and Racist Slur Controversy refers to backlash towards music critic and YouTuber Anthony Fantano over resurfaced clips of him saying the n-word and the f-slur in a past video and, in a seperate video, laughing at a joke related to Trayvon Martin's death with other content creators. The clips went viral at the end of July 2025, with the Akademiks TV X / Twitter page spreading the n-word f-slur video. The clips i…

Hip Hop Podcaster Anthony Fantano Exposed For Racist Tweets!

Anthony Fantano Faces Backlash Over Resurfaced Racist Clips — And His Response Isn’t Helping Anthony Fantano, the self-proclaimed “internet’s busiest music nerd” and host of Complex’s hip-hop podcast, is facing serious heat after old videos resurfaced showing him using racist and homophobic slurs — including the N-word. But instead of issuing a full-throated apology and taking accountability, Anthony is doing what many online celebs do when the …

Anthony Fantano Apologizes For Past Use Of Slurs After Alarming Clips Resurface

Anthony Fantano the music critic behind the YouTube channel, The Needle Drop. The channel has amassed over 3 million subscribers and each review of a popular artist sparks plenty of online discourse. In the mid-2010s, Fantano ran a side channel called thatistheplan. There, he made surrealist, meme humor videos in a similar vein to other popular creators of the time. Those videos became the subject of an article by The Fader. In 2018, they publis…