The Complex 7: Fonzworth Bentley1:58 pm | Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

The personality formerly know as Fonzworth Bentley simply goes by Bentley now, and he’s ready for you take him seriously as an artist. After a handful of setbacks during recent years, the G’s To Gents host has teamed up with E1 Music (formerly KOCH Records) and is set to release his Kanye West-executive-produced debut album, CoolOutrageousLoversOfUniquelyRawStyle, later this year. With an album on the way, we put Bentley through our seven-question grinder and got him to talk about everything from his longtime love for Paris and newfound love for guacamole to his worst fashion experience. Keep reading to check out what he had to say…

Interview By Ernest Baker

 #1: WHAT’S THE NUMBER ONE DEAL-BREAKER FOR A POTENTIAL GIRLFRIEND?

Bentley says: I don’t want to say if she doesn’t have faith because I know people who didn’t that now do. Maybe if she doesn’t let me get in my recreation. All of the above for men. As a man, you’re born a hunter so you have to get it in. Video games, golf, running, exercise, being with your boys doing absolutely nothing. I need a woman that’s comfortable with me doing all of that.

 #2: WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SNEAKER OF ALL TIME?

Bentley says: The Jordans that had the gray with the maroon. The Bugs Bunny joints. I don’t know the number. [Ed. note: He's referring to the VII.]

 #3: WHEN’S THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?

Bentley says: I’m trying to think if I busted a tear on Sunday at church. If I didn’t bust one this Sunday it was the Sunday before that.

 #4: IF YOU HAD A WEEK HOLIDAY, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

Bentley says: I would completely turn this BlackBerry off and I would try to see if I could split my time between Paris and um, Paris.

 #5: WHAT HAS GOT TO BE IN YOUR FRIDGE AT ALL TIMES?

Bentley says: Lettuce, onions, tomatoes, and whatever else you need to make a salad. I just got hip to the guacamole since I’ve been living greener and I didn’t know what I was missing. It’s not bad. I used to hate on it.

 #6: WHAT’S THE WORST WAY YOU’VE EVER BROKEN UP WITH SOMEONE?

Bentley says: I just disappeared. Straight up disappeared and never said anything. I called later and apologized for doing that, but that was pretty bad.

 #7: WHAT’S THE MOST EMBARRASSING PIECE OF CLOTHING YOU’VE EVER WORN?

Bentley says: I was the concert master in my high school orchestra and it was the first time I had invited some people from the hood to it. I was hanging out on my side of town, wearing my Damage shirt, and I was like, “Just come with me real quick. I’m about to knock out this concert and then let’s keep it moving.” Messing around, I forgot to get my tuxedo out of the freaking cleaners. So I showed up, and I’m the concert master, right? I’m supposed to come out and help everyone get tuned up and I had a big solo this time too. There was a tuxedo there, but it was entirely too tight and entirely too short all across the board. Not on some Thom Browne, cool-to-be-tight type stuff either. And I didn’t have a shirt or a tie. So I had on the Damage T-shirt, some white and purple Huaraches, with a super-tight tuxedo on. But it was funny because as I began playing people really forgot about what I had on, because I was merking on the violin.

SONG: Bentley, “Greener”