CHILLY GONZALES !!

has to be loved ...he´s brilliant ...the worst mc ever.



"Sounding a bit like a baddie from an Inspector Gadget cartoon or a sleazy yet sincere European Eminem who shares the same Hot Tub as Har Mar Superstar....
That's how I would perhaps try and describe Canadian ex-pat (Chilly) Gonzales to the un-initiated. This being his fourth album in he's proved he's no flash in the pan novelty act despite seemingly trying his hardest to be just that very thing another factor he shares with those two North American comparisons. The album kicks in with a fairy-tale-esque Eurotrashy instrumental before jumping to his signature wise-ass lyrics, beeps and quirky Dre style funk which continues along this cool vein until we hit track eight where sophistication levels are turned up to 'elf' as we're treated to a tender duet with chanteuse 'Leslie Feist' entitled 'Why don't we disappear' that for me conjured up an image of a penniless couple contemplating their future on the balcony of a Monaco Casino as the sun starts to rise, see what you think? Without a second thought we're brought straight back down to earth with another duet after all this heady this romance with long-time collaborator the marvellous 'Dirty Ho' called 'Joy of Thinking' which as you would imagine is a sublime pairing (as seen before) if a little brief. There's more than a pinch of humour on this album too see the hilarious 'Take me to Broadway' and it's lyrics about extra testicles and chest hair for further evidence. Blame it on my attention span but the tracks featuring other artists (of which there's eight, count em) including Princess Superstar, Taylor Patti & Louie Austen seem to compliment Gonzales's style the best and keep things varied and interesting, like a musical big Dipper if you like. For something so cool it's a very endearing, original 'cosy' and well produced album, the more you listen to it the more you realise just how magical the sounds on it are, I'm somewhat awestruck. "

he usued to be Dirty Ho boyfriend ...and he still performs with her from time to time and releases stuff on Kitty-Yo. unfortunately he moved from Berlin to Paris earlier this year ...check out "the entertainist" ....

He looks like Jon Spencer but sounds more like Eminem, with a lo-fi 808 nightmare pushing Dr. Dre out of the producer's chair. Still, Gonzales is definitely not the worst MC, as he styles himself on a track heard on his first pure rap LP, The Entertainist. He's actually a great rapper, as iconoclastic and inscrutable a figure as Kool Keith or Ol' Dirty Bastard, with an irresistible sense of rhythm, hilarious lyrics, and a raw, kinetic production approach that benefits on several skeletal tracks from Digital Hardcore colleagues Patric Catani and Bomb20. One of the best productions, though, was actually recorded by Gonzales' associate Dirty Ho. The track, Futuristic Ain't Shit to Me, appears to set out the Chilly Gonzales agenda ("Being futuristic these days means being futuristic on your own terms", though subsequent lyrics ("Being futuristic means loving worms/Saving your sperm/Wearing your pubes in a perm" resist any attempt at analysis. Besides rapping white-boy nonsense like Beck or MC Paul Barman ("Jimmy Carter in the place to be!/Hangin' with Chilly G!", Gonzales also pokes fun at the legion of sex-crazed rappers out there, with amusing parodies (we're assuming) like Candy and Cum on You. It's unclear whether he's attempting to save rap from the mainstream blahs or ridicule it out of existence, but The Entertainist is a brilliant left-field hit for fans of oddball hip-hop production and zany lyrics. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide