LET'S ARGUE: Akademiks Is the Worst 

The “Akademiks is the worst” take is not as worth arguing as much as it’s worth agreeing

I want an actual Melonfest where artists handpicked by Melon perform songs off their highest AND lowest rated records.

Akademick has to be the easiest person to make fun off, Dude is clueless

My new favorite thing is Anthony hating doing Let's Argue. It makes each episode much more interesting because he hates us

Erykah Badu telling Akademics he looks exactly like Jerry from Tom and Jerry was hilarious. Thats all I think about when I hear about him.

DJ Akademiks is the type to get intimidated by a Woman that has a deeper voice than him.

"DJ Akademiks is the worst" is a take colder than an iceberg in a restaurant freezer that's been placed in a freezer in the middle of the coldest January in history.

Saying that about Pusha while naming the artists he was ghost writing for and then claiming he’s the one “riding coattails” is f’ing CLASSIC! 😂

I need at least 60 minutes of Melonfest, I unironically rewound this video four times

The Pusha take is what happens when you don't pay attention

Be careful about editing yourself into prison like that, Anthony. That’s where all the AJR records are kept.

The defense of Push was based. That was the most L take I’ve ever seen

This man really put out two let's argues in 3 days

nav dissing Akademiks is the best thing he ever did

Hey Antony, thanks for the entertainment. I know you don’t do as many let’s argue videos because most of the takes you get are garbage but I gotta say it’s one of my favorite segments you do. Keep the grind going and have a good night.

What makes Guns N Roses so famous is their post-debut era. Whilst the debut carries the most famous songs, Sweet Child O Mine, Welcome to the Jungle and more (and is their best album) it is their stardom during the late 80s as a cultural movement that makes them so famous. Plus, as a now more subtle and mature listener who used to love GNR as a kid, their melodic songs (Civil War, November Rain) still hit like a fucking train when ur ready for them. Idk, dumb band, but one a lot of people cherish for what it meant for them growing up. (Kind of like a hard rock Elton John)

The editing in this video is super dynamic and fun I love the new style. It’s almost hard to go back to the simpler style of the Let’s Argue

4:23 as an artist who tried discovery mode out on a song while its still in beta, i saw an immediate increase in streams which kept rising and is currently at 10x the daily plays compared to before I opted in, went from 1k to 10k a day on that song, and my monthly listening shot up from about 35k to 76k in 2.5 weeks. A good thing about it is you can opt in on specific songs so its not like they are locking you into the deal once you use it. Another thing is that they are only taking royalties from plays in the geographical areas where discovery mode is in effect, so all in all I think its a good feature at this moment but its heavy usage when it is fully released will probably water down the effect eventually making it obsolete, or even worse it will be a requirement if you want to be heard the same way you were before. Update: went from 76k to 82k monthly listeners yesterday, biggest jump yet 2nd update: song is still improving on numbers with the highest being 20k in a day and im about to reach 200k monthly listeners

Counterpoint: Akademics gave us the "my top 5 is drake, drake, drake..." His contribution to comedy is legit

These past few episodes of Let's Argue are killing it, love the editing and humor

As a hard rocker back in the 1980s, I can say the Guns N Roses initial success (which took about a year to kick in, btw) was due to being perceived as slightly more serious, gritty and harder than your average sunset strip glam metal band. Their sound was less slick and bubblegum scented than say, Poison, and felt more in line with 70s era Aerosmith - 70s rock in general was starting seep back in (see The Cult "Electric", Jane's Addiction, Danzig 1, Soundgarden, etc.), so it was perfect timing. From there, their lasting appeal is down to clever pop metal songwriting.

It's so obvious when someone has no knowledge of music history prior to 2015. How can you say Pusha T was carried through his whole career and not even list HALF of his career?

Recently my mom told me how she was friends with Pusha-T in middle school and even went to karate with him. Kinda blew my mind.

If you feel useless then just remember, akademiks still has a following.

You already know Akademiks is going to do a drunk stream after he sees this.

On the spotify deal - it definitely has a significant effect on exposing your music to more listeners, spotify can 100% snap their fingers and send you attention. It's especially beneficial for periods where artists aren't consistently releasing as it keeps music circulating in the algorithm (justifying the royalty cut because you would be getting less streams anyways, w/o releasing in todays landscape). I still think it's somewhat exploitive, but it's also just Spotify supplying the demand for exposure.

if pusha got carried through all his beefs. why is his track record SO good with them

You don’t have to hate Akademiks just because he enjoys Drakes cookie recipe more than you

I love when bands release the demos. Sometimes the stripped down versions are fire.

Because of the Akademiks take we need a new “Let’s Agree” ASAP

Wikipedia considers TVU&N a collaborative album but people generally don't because she only sings on 4 of the 11 songs (1 of which being background vocals), didn't write on it, and was mostly just on it at the behest of Andy Warhol. It's collaborative in that they're both on it, but not in that they worked on it together, she was a late add-on to an already finished batch of songs.

Cleaning those glasses while talking about Akademiks was a power move

I'd buy a 3 day pass to Melonfest

Waiting for the ringlight reflection to fit perfectly into the Iris of Anthony's eye is like the DVD logo hitting a corner

when akademick went on fresh & fit he passed the point of no return

Finally we get to talk about the elephant in the room (Akademiks)

The person that said Pusha T has been carried for his entire career definitely has no idea that he was 1/2 of Clipse

Ah yes, academics is hard but worth it! Melon loves knowledge

I don’t understand how someone couldn’t like Sade. That’s it.

These intros keep getting better

Slowthai has had the best 3 album run within recent UK hip hop history, possibly within the world

Regardless of what you think of Pusha’s solo catalog, that take is what you get when you’ve never heard a second of Clipse.

I can’t imagine anyone outright hating sade wtf

The smart way for Spotify to sell exposure would be to improve the algorithm and only apply the improvements to the artists who paid, but keep the number of recommendations the same. I.e. you as the listener will see the same things you see now except a few of those recommendations will be way more relevant for you. And if every artist bought in every recommendation would be gold, and overall people might listen to more music I guess. Plus random promotions like with the ITvid algorithm to show off how artists can get crazy boosts in popularity from data science payola.

deluxe versions are like 12 regular songs, 5 demos, 4 radio mixes, and maybe 3 actual unreleased songs that could possibly get on a regular rotation

I actually disagree on your take about bonus tracks. I think that sometimes it's not necessarily that They Are Not good songs But Maybe they do not fit the theme of the rest of the album and were good songs that the artist still wanted to release in some way

The editing on this episode was superb

DJ Akademiks is the Keemstar of hip-hop

The man who said pusha T was carried his entire career needs to be sent to twitter jail

I agree to an extent with Deluxe Versions, but I also think a lot of the time it's just "Hey guys, if we save some of these songs, we can sell the album twice"

I like when Anthony eats Italian food. I really feel the culture.

Akademiks is a grown ass man saying "I'm the prize" and meat riding drake💀

The energy from the lets argue this time around got me feeling all kinds of good chaotic

Ryan from Downhill Media's editing ties the whole thing together

That Pusha T take had me fuming

Bro stepping on needles with this one 😭😭can’t wait to see how this beef goes

YOU GAVE ME THE KISS OF LIFE (absolutely fire)

Drakes wildin’ with his hot take about Pusha……. we see through you 😂

Honestly hearing Starfox64 music in a Fantano Video is something I never expected to hear and also made me feel happy existential dread for some reason.

It's time for another "Let's Agree" Anthony

Akademics is not the worst, he's just nonfactor in hip-hop and should stay that way.

The "Welcome to the JUNGLE BABY!!!" edits were fantastically hilarious

The editing on this episode is nuts.

The velvet underground and Nico one is bc Nico was technically a part of the velvet underground at the time but left before their sophomore record. So you could call it a collaboration album but it’s technically wrong. I honestly don’t even know why her name is on the cover considering that she was a part of the band…

If Pusha T was carried by anyone, it was by the Neptunes

That pusha take has GOT to be bait 💀💀💀

I could watch footage of MelonFest 2070 for ten hours straight

It's good that fantanos now doing more lets argues again

That intro was fully Oscar worthy

All I know is that the best way to turn introverts into extroverts is to make them listen to giving bad people good ideas for 48 hours

Never saw Melon this much upset about Pusha T

How can we call Akademiks the worst when Adam 22 exists

ARGUE?!? No. Let’s AGREE.

Finally, someone with a decent take on g'n'r.

The fact that fantano took his glasses off for the AK take is crazy

my favorite takes are the ones like "pusha t was carried his whole career" because theyre really like just telling on themselves

Pusha started the beef by spilling the tea to the world, his an icon for that right😂😂😂

I don't want to argue forever. I want to be friends.

Say that Pusha T is good because he had friends in big places, Is a stupid reasoning tbh

3:00 - Biggest laugh I've ever had during a "LETS ARGUE"

j balvin and bad bunny (especially jbalvin) being the representation of latin music is my villain origin story

“Did the man who invented college go to college”

That footage of actual, real, legitimate, actual people at Melonfest was awesome

That Sade take😂😂😂😂

We just got 16 whole seconds of MelonPop, I love it here

As a GnR die hard fan I can understand people not liking them but I’m glad Anthony gives them some credit where credit is due lol

2 let's argue episodes in the last 3 days? This is nice

0:28 Melon trying to tell us he feels trapped in his content series 2:11 The Death discography has done this 3:27 at least this guy has a From Mars to Sirius pfp

"I AM THE TABLE" is the best lyric of all time

we got blessed with two Let’s Argue in a week!!

Can we get the Lil Pump 2 NOT GOOD review already?

Everything he said about akademiks is facts! Dude just yells behind a keyboard now. Miss the old days when it was about music. Also people never point out how akademiks has a habit of aligning himself with the worst people in the industry I.e. 6ixnine, Charleston white, Andrew Tate, fresh and fit podcast, and wack 100!

I have NEVER watched a single Akademics video or piece of content. He's successful/relevant because people watch him, even those who think "he's the worst thing in music."

Something bad always happens when Akademiks comes out of his basement

i always look forward to mac demarco‘s demo albums that he releases along his studio albums. they feel warm and cozy and come with little variations that stand out and show macs creative process. plus he throws in a lot of unreleased tracks. hard disagree on the demo album take

Akademiks never talked about music he had a page called”war in chiraq” which was catered to street beef of artists in Chicago like chief keef, king von, fbg duck etc.

You’re describing Motley Crue when you talk about GnR. They actually have musical substance. Listen to the guitars, they’re almost NEVER playing the same thing at once. And their first record sounds a lot better than the typical over produced glam record because they could really play tf outta their parts and they had great pocket and energy as a band. Also slash made Les Pauls cool again.

I don't trust people who listen to anything Akademics says 😂

Hell hath no fury is a masterpiece.

The problem with demo version on deluxe albums is that they're barely different from the actual song. You're marketing it as a "look behind the scenes at the creative process" but it's literally just the final song before the studio polish.