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40 free Anthony Fantano trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Anthony Fantano has reviewed thousands of records on his YouTube channel The Needle Drop, and in all that time only a small handful have earned a perfect 10 on release. That scarcity is why fans keep searching for theneedledrop 10/10 albums: a ten from him is an event, and a zero is nearly as famous. This quiz covers both ends of the scale. You'll be asked about the albums and artists behind his perfect scores, the records he panned outright, the off-scale verdicts he saves for special cases, and the flannel shirts and score qualifiers that regulars know by heart. It also follows the critic off camera: his early career, the feuds with artists who disliked their scores, the lawsuits, the cameos and the press profiles. It's pitched for viewers of the channel, with a few deep cuts for people who never miss a review.
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Q 01Which rapper has a 0/10 and a 10/10 from Anthony Fantano, the latter with Kanye West in 2018?
Kid Cudi
Kid Cudi got a zero for Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven in 2015, then a perfect ten three years later as half of the duo Kids See Ghosts.
Q 02Which Charli XCX album, with a plain lime cover, earned a perfect 10 from Anthony Fantano in 2024?
Brat
Brat spent five months in cover design, and Charli XCX said she picked an off-trend shade on purpose to suggest something was wrong.
Q 03Which Kendrick Lamar album, home to King Kunta, earned a rare 10 from Anthony Fantano in 2015?
To Pimp a Butterfly
To Pimp a Butterfly won the Grammy for Best Rap Album but lost Album of the Year to Taylor Swift's 1989.
Q 04Anthony Fantano signals a rave album review by wearing a flannel shirt in which color?
Yellow
Yellow means a record he loves and red one he dislikes; a viewer spotted the pattern before Fantano did, so he kept it going.
Q 05Which California punk band got a 0/10 from Anthony Fantano for a 26-minute album in 2020?
Green Day
Green Day's album Father of All is the shortest of their career, and Fantano's review tore all 26 minutes of it to shreds.
Q 06Anthony Fantano plays an Area 51 security guard in an animated video for which Lil Nas X hit?
Old Town Road
Old Town Road got the cameo in the 2019 video for its remix with Young Thug and Mason Ramsey, a nod to the Storm Area 51 meme.
Q 07Which Canadian rapper posted his messages to Fantano after a 2022 joke video about a cookie recipe?
Drake
Drake shared the real exchange on Instagram Stories, complete with a mock review score for Fantano's existence; Fantano said he had no hard feelings.
Q 08Which Chance the Rapper project, his 2019 debut studio album, received a 0/10 from Anthony Fantano?
The Big Day
The Big Day ran to 22 tracks and 77 minutes, a length Fantano's review treated as an ordeal.
Q 09Which singer objected in 2024 after Fantano scored her album The Great Impersonator 1 out of 10?
Halsey
Halsey said the album grew out of her health struggles; Fantano later answered that his criticism was aimed at the music, not her life.
Q 10Which 2012 Death Grips album was the first new release Anthony Fantano ever scored a perfect 10?
The Money Store
The Money Store was the trio's debut studio album, released after they signed to major label Epic Records in February 2012.
Q 11Which Virginia duo of brothers Pusha T and Malice earned a Fantano 10/10 for Let God Sort Em Out?
Clipse
Clipse had not released an album since 2009; the brothers split in 2010, reunited in 2019 and returned with this one in 2025.
Q 12Which producer handled every track on Let God Sort Em Out, a 2025 album Fantano scored 10/10?
Pharrell Williams
Pharrell Williams first discovered the duo in his native Virginia Beach and persuaded the two brothers to work in tandem.
Q 13Which experimental rock band led by Michael Gira earned a Fantano perfect 10 for To Be Kind?
Swans
Swans grew out of New York's no wave scene in the early 1980s and were re-formed by Gira in 2010, four years before this album.
Q 21Which Australian former busker got a Fantano 0/10 for her debut album, Welcome to the Madhouse?
Tones and I
Tones and I topped the charts in more than 30 countries with Dance Monkey two years before the album Fantano panned.
Q 22Which British prog musician earned Fantano's rare NOT BAD rating for the album The Future Bites?
Steven Wilson
Steven Wilson, formerly of Porcupine Tree, got the off-scale verdict because the album beat Fantano's expectations.
Q 23Which rapper's album Starface drew Fantano's first NOT MUSIC rating over its use of AI?
Tyga
Tyga admitted using AI to make parts such as the synthesizer and guitar tracks quickly, which drew negative reviews.
Q 14Which Providence rock band earned a Fantano 10/10 for its final album, You Won't Get What You Want?
Daughters
Daughters had broken up in 2009, and this 2018 comeback was their first album in eight years.
Q 15Kristin Hayter released Sinner Get Ready, a 2021 Fantano 10/10, under which stage name?
Lingua Ignota
Lingua Ignota is Latin for unknown language; Hayter retired the name in 2023, making this her last album under it.
Q 16Which Oakland pop act, the project of Chrystia Cabral, earned a Fantano 10/10 for The Turning Wheel?
Spellling
Spellling began in 2015, after Cabral watched a fellow San Francisco artist perform looped vocals and lost a close friend.
Q 17Which Japanese artist designed the cover of Kids See Ghosts, a 2018 album Fantano scored 10/10?
Takashi Murakami
Takashi Murakami based the cover on Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, having earlier made the artwork for Kanye West's Graduation.
Q 18Kids See Ghosts, a Fantano 10/10, came out of Kanye West's 2018 sessions in which US state?
Wyoming
Wyoming hosted the sessions at a ranch in Jackson Hole, which produced five albums released week by week in the summer of 2018.
Q 19Which Kendrick Lamar song, from a Fantano 10/10 album, was chanted at Black Lives Matter protests?
Alright
Alright won two Grammys of its own, and Pitchfork later ranked it the best song of the 2010s.
Q 20Death Grips, makers of Fantano's first perfect 10, formed in 2010 in which California city?
Sacramento
Sacramento is where drummer Zach Hill, vocalist Stefan Burnett, known as MC Ride, and engineer Andy Morin formed the trio.
Q 24Which meme rapper answered a Fantano 0/10 with a diss track featuring the critic himself?
Yuno Miles
Yuno Miles made Fantano Diss with the critic, who conceded the argument on the track and had already guested on the album he panned.
Q 25Which 2024 Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign album did Fantano call unreviewable instead of scoring?
Vultures 1
Vultures 1 got a video titled unreviewable 1, in which Fantano said West's antisemitic views kept him from critiquing the record properly.
Q 26Julian Casablancas, who called Fantano's taste trash on a 2024 podcast, fronts which rock band?
The Strokes
The Strokes singer did allow that Fantano does solid work when he sticks to methodical analysis of how a record was made.
Q 27Ronnie Radke, whose 2024 defamation lawsuit against Fantano was dismissed, fronts which rock band?
Falling in Reverse
Falling in Reverse's frontman was ordered to pay Fantano's legal fees when the case was thrown out in May 2025.
Q 28Which video game publisher sued Fantano in 2023 over his viral TikTok audio clip about pizza slices?
Activision
Activision had used the audio in an advert for custom Crash Bandicoot trainers, then dropped the suit within three weeks.
Q 29Jello Biafra, whom Fantano calls his political idol, sang for which San Francisco punk band?
Dead Kennedys
Dead Kennedys split in 1986 after eight years with Biafra, whose work is what first got a teenage Fantano interested in politics.
Q 30Which presidential candidate did Fantano, a self-described leftist, endorse in the 2020 US election?
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders got the nod from Fantano, who has also called himself a free speech purist.