Falling In Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke started a Twitter feud with music critic Anthony Fantano.

The war of words between the two began after Fantano negatively criticized Falling In Reverse’s new single “Watch The World Burn”, which was released last month on his YouTube channel The Needle Drop.

In an intro video posted on February 6, Fantano described the track as “a really bad rap-metal song that sounds like (rapper) Tom McDonald but without the racism, and like Eminem but without the talent”.

“The bars are hilarious and super terrible and hard to bear. And the metallic transition towards the end of the song is disgusting and fucking tacky. Yeah, I hope I don’t have to listen to this song too many times before end up in the grave.”

Radke responded Thursday by tweeting that Fantano “is like the Perez Hilton of music critics, he looks 25 years older than he is and no one will care in 3 years.”

Fantano responded with two sets of comparison photos of Radke and himself, tweeting: “Over the past decade I objectively seem to have taken fewer years than Mr. Radke. And I’ve also had fewer trips through the justice system. I think I’m gonna win.”

Radke spent two and a half years in prison between 2008 and 2010 for assault related to his involvement in the death of an 18-year-old boy in Nevada in 2006. He was also arrested twice in 2012, for assault alleged spousal acts and for injuries. has two members of the public at a concert after throwing four microphone stands into the crowd. Consequently, Falling In Reverse never performed in the UK as Radke cannot cross the border due to his criminal record.

The funny thing about the photo on the right is that the blonde is 5 years old after mine. HAHAHAHAHAHA YOU (ARE) BORN LOOKING OLD,” Radke told Fantano, to which Fantano replied, “Do you look like this after 5 years??? What is your secret? cocaine?”.

Radke replied, “Well, the truth is the photo on the right was taken in 108 degrees in an Arizona parking lot above the scene. The other was taken 5 years later in a room in which you are literally 3 years younger than me”.

Fantano then said, “He admitted the difference between the photos was 5 years.”

Radke then taunted Fantano, saying The Needle Drop’s online subscribers are “paid bots from India…at least they better be lol.” He later added, “We all know what happens to mostly negative critical YouTubers, another YouTuber will be doing a video called ‘what happened to Anthony Fantano’ in 2 years max.”

Fantano admitted to his fans that his feud with Radke was “not as cool as Drake’s. I admit it…I’ll do better next time guys.”

Drake revealed on his own in September that he sent hateful messages to Fantano.

He posted screenshots on his Instagram account mocking the critics’ rating system, whereby recordings are given a rating from 1 to 10 preceded by “light”, “decent”, “strong” or somewhere in between ( i.e. “a 5 between slight and decent”): “Your existence is a slight to decent 1. And the 1 is because you are alive. And because you somehow married a black girl .I feel light to decent 1 in your existence”.

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