Timothée Chalamet puts alter-ego rumors to rest in remix with EsDeeKid | Timothée Chalamet
It’s arguably the most popular musical meme of the year: Is masked Liverpudlian rapper EsDeeKid actually Hollywood actor Timothée Chalamet in disguise? Now the speculation is over as Chalamet has jumped on the unexpected remix of EsDeeKid’s track 4 Raws.
Chalamet posted a music video for the track on his social media, rapping alongside EsDeeKid in a series of scenes from a cramped kitchen to public housing.
“There’s model bitches in Peckham / I drive a rental car in Wrexham,” Chalamet sings in lyrics designed to impress his UK fan base ahead of the release the next day of his smash-hit new film Marty Supreme.
He also references his girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, with the lyrics: “Timothée Chalamet chilling, trying to save 100 million, girl got a billion” and adding: “I’m having fun, just having sex / my dick is young and restless.”
He continues: “My life is an opera, look at the Oscars / look at the fans, look at the movies / look at the triple A girls who’ll choose me / look at my haters, they wanna sue me,” he quickly raps over the song’s distorted beat, with the track being shared tens of thousands of times just hours after its release.
Had the full version of the track been released it would likely have caused 4 Raw to back up the UK charts. The track peaked at No. 27 before being overtaken by Christmas songs, but it’s just one hit from EsDeeKid, who has gone from relative unknown to the UK’s most popular rapper in just a few months.
His song Century broke into the top 10, while his album Rebel became the world’s most listened to rap album on Spotify in November and is still in the top 20.
He has never given interviews and keeps his face hidden from the public except for the occasional look into his eyes, leading to speculation that he is actually Chalamet in disguise. Asked about the alleged connection by BBC Radio One DJ Greg James earlier this month, Chalamet replied: “All will be revealed in due course.”
Chalamet sang his own versions of Bob Dylan songs in the biopic A Complete Unknown, for which he was nominated for an Oscar. He’s also a fan of the UK underground rap scene, and this week he names rapper Fakemink along with Susan Boyle as the Brits he admires the most.
Marty Supreme is expected to be a potential Oscar winner after Chalamet lost to Adrien Brody in The Brutalist this year.
In his five-star review of Marty Supreme, The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw wrote: “By the end of this film my head was swinging from side to side as if it had been hit with cymbals.” It was voted the fifth best film of the year by Guardian critics before it was even released.
