Let’s say you working on an album. You got an actual Fantano type nigga in your camp to tell you where you lacking and where you doing good. A lot of rappers def take criticism from their friends when working in music but that’s obviously different.

Would you consider this cheating tho considering critics opinions are really just opinions like everyone else’s?

No

You could just watch every Fantano review ever made and craft your album around them.

There's definitely pitchfork bait and fantano bait albums out there

Sometimes it's works to your advantage

Mac Miller was hurt by that P4K review of BSP when it dropped and he's dropped much better music because of it

#dannybrowndiscography

i just hope they review the review my EP

Hiring Fantano and doing the opposite of what he tells would make a good album tbh

No because fantano himself says artists should not pander to him

goat

Not cheating at all. If you listen to fair criticism from legit critics, you might agree on what you did wrong and improve on that. Melon is a different story though. He’s one of my favorite YouTubers but I wouldn’t take criticism from him a lot. He can just be kind of scattered.

Taking advice from friends isn’t the best.

A Speeding Bullet to The Big Day by NAV

Lmao Fantano. Who actually values this guys taste ?

JPEG Mafia
100 Gecs
Brockhampton
Death Grips

very true

Assuming the critic has the same taste as everyone

critics can't help you make a good album.

and no critic is going to help produce an album without a financial incentive.

and it would be bad press if an artist pandered to the critics for inflated critical acclaim.

it would only be one critic/review. not really sure what impact that would have. i suppose your critic friend would write a really good review about you? lol

No because critic reviews aren’t everything. And let’s be honest a lot of them decide what their score will be before they even listen to the album.

just remembered that thread about fantano bein the next rick rubin

His music taste has made him a millionaire

His camera presence and articulation, not his taste

True

you cant cheat on something that's subjective