King Gordy

Biography

Waverly Walter Alford III (born August 18, 1977), known professionally by his stage name King Gordy, is an American rapper and singer from Detroit, Michigan. He is one-fourth of underground hip hop group the Fat Killahz (with Fatt Father, Marv Won and Bang Belushi), one-third of the horrorcore supergroup How to Gag a Maggot (with Jimmy Donn and GrewSum), and one-half of the hardcore rap duos Last American Rock Stars (with Bizarre of D12) and Even Heathens (with ILLtemper.) He is currently signed to his self-owned record label King of Van Dyke Entertainment, which he unofficially launched during late 2018.

Early life

Alford was raised in Detroit, Michigan. His father worked for Chrysler and his mother worked for the school board. His parents split when he was 13. At the age of sixteen, Alford was arrested for selling drugs, and served nine months in a Wayne County jail. Following his early album releases, Alford settled down in Atlanta and had 2 children with a woman named Raphael Dabrielle, who also was a rapper at the time.

Career

He has started rapping on Detroit local underground hip hop scene in 2000 as a battle rapper. In 2001, along with Fatt Father, Marv Won and Shim-E-Bango, Gordy joined a four-piece Detroit-based underground hip hop act the Fat Killahz as the only singing emcee of the group. He signed with Bass Brothers' Web Entertainment, an independent label that released Eminem's first full-length album, Infinite, and started work on a record.
Due to this term, Gordy has appeared in the film 8 Mile, in which he played the fictional rapper, "Big O", the character was regularly mentioned by character Wink Harris as "the fat man flipping burgers at Mickey D's". He dropped his debut solo album The Entity×The Entity24 June 2003 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 16 tracks1The Entity0:562Nightmares2:413The Pain4:024Fight3:305Situations3:226When Darkness Falls4:277Playground (skit)0:598Time to Die4:109Fat-Tastic 44:4810Pass Me a Lighter3:3411No Lights3:1312We Violent3:3013The Mask4:0814Hello Gordy (skit)0:2215Stress3:5716Nobody Hates Nothin'4:20 in 2003, which is notable also by its audio production handled by Eminem among other producers and rappers appeared on the record. In 2005, Gordy and the Fat Killahz released the group's debut Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? album via No Tyze Entertainment. Same year he made guest appearances on Bizarre's and Proof's debut albums.
From 2006 to 2009, Gordy released another five solo albums via Morbid Music LLC, which featured guest appearances only by the likes of the Fat Killahz and his childhood friend Bizarre of D12, with whom Gordy formed hip hop duo The Davidians in 2008. Gordy's second successful album Xerxes The God-King was released in 2010 and featured his second music video (since "Nightmares" from The Entity), "Sing For The Dead".
In 2011, Gordy released King Gordy Sings the Blues, a new Fat Killahz effort The E.P., and his first extended play Jesus Christ's Mistress. The following year he nicknamed himself as Dark Lord Vader and dropped his second solo EP Hail Dark Lord Vader×Hail Dark Lord VaderAugust 2012 · EPSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 7 tracks1Hdlv Intro2:222Allah vs. Christ3:283Psycho Bill2:394Vader3:405Kurt Cobain Me3:116Monsters5:247Over3:20, which marked him his comeback into horrorcore. He has started to aggressively promote his harder image in social media, and Twitter suspended Gordy for various reasons as he mentions on the album.
After recovering from being shot five times during an alleged robbery in Detroit, King Gordy came back with Herojuana, a collaborative six-track EP with his Fat Killahz bandmate Bang Belushi, released in 2016.
In 2017, he and Bizarre got signed by Twiztid to Majik Ninja Entertainment as a hip hop duo L.A.R.S. They released their eponymous debut album on February 16, 2018. Also since 2017, Gordy and Minnesota rapper Jimmy Donn teams up for How to Gag a Maggot project, which has 1 studio album followed-up 2 EPs as of June 2020. King Gordy released 2 singles in late 2018 titled "King of Van Dyke N Harper Freestyle" and "Anakin Halloween Freestyle" under his self-owned unofficial record label King of Van Dyke Entertainment.

Confrontations

After rapper Haystak made a diss track towards Eminem, King Gordy and Bizarre collaborated to respond with diss tracks "Hey, Haystak" and "R.I.P Haystak". Rapper Brabo Gator, who knew Haystak, then dissed King Gordy, Obie Trice, D12 and Eminem.
On June 28, 2013, King Gordy challenged the rapping ability of Lupe Fiasco and other mainstream rappers (such as Mac Miller, Yelawolf, and Tyler the Creator) on Twitter. Lupe Fiasco then continued to fuel the fire by responding to King Gordy, the back and forth continued for over eight hours and both rappers explicitly expressed their respect for each other's craft, but insisted they would beat each other in a rap battle.
In late 2014, Gordy released a song titled "Return Of The King", which is a diss track towards other rappers such as Lo Key and Tyler the Creator.

Studio albums

2003: The Entity
2006: King of Horrorcore
2007: Van Dyke and Harper Music
2007: Cobain's Diary
2008: The Great American Weed Smoker
2009: King of Horrorcore 2
2010: Xerxes The God-King
2011: King Gordy Sings the Blues
Cancelled: Anakin

Collaborative albums

2005: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (with Fat Killahz)
2017: How to Gag a Maggot (with How to Gag a Maggot)
2018: Last American Rock Stars (with L.A.R.S.)
2020: The House LP (with How to Gag a Maggot×How To Gag A Maggot30 October 2017 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 10 tracks1The Bait4:392Empty Your Pockets4:143How to Gag A Maggot3:084Body in the Trunk 36:595Don't Go in the Basement4:086Fuck Your Feelings3:397Kush, Xanax & Lean5:138Clash of the Titans3:139Everyone Wants to Die2:4910Fall From Grace5:58)
2021: II: Goat (with How to Gag a Maggot)
2021: Even Heathens (with Even Heathens)
2022: Unpleasant Never Dies (with Even Heathens)
2022: Odd Gods (with Even Heathens)
2023: Odd Gods 2 (with Even Heathens)
2024: Odd Gods 3 (with Even Heathens)
2025: Handful of Cancel (with Even Heathens)
2026: A.O.D. (with A.O.D.)

EP's

2011: The E.P. (with Fat Killahz)
2011: Jesus Christ's Mistress
2012: Hail Dark Lord Vader
2016: Herojuana (with Bang Belushi)
2019: How to Gag a Maggot: Reigning Blood (with How to Gag a Maggot)
2019: House of HorrorS (with Murder Rap KingZ)
2020: The Purge (with How to Gag a Maggot)
2020: The House EP (with How to Gag a Maggot×How To Gag A Maggot30 October 2017 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 10 tracks1The Bait4:392Empty Your Pockets4:143How to Gag A Maggot3:084Body in the Trunk 36:595Don't Go in the Basement4:086Fuck Your Feelings3:397Kush, Xanax & Lean5:138Clash of the Titans3:139Everyone Wants to Die2:4910Fall From Grace5:58)
2021: Foster Kidz (with Trilogy)
2021: Ladon (with Tres Aurland)
2021: Horrorcore Stories (with Even Heathens)
2021: The Infected (with How to Gag a Maggot)
2022: Tales from the Darkside (with Psychoetry)
2022: Morbid Clique vs. King Gordy (with Morbid Clique)
2023: Kody and the King (with Kody Lee)
2023: Die Slow (with How to Gag a Maggot)
2024: WIC Kids (with WIC Kids)
2025: CALMLY manic. - EP (with Paranoah)
2026: Death over Disrespect (with Tres Aurland)

Mixtapes

2003: 2 Fat 2 Furious (with Fat Killahz)
2004: WFKR 31.3 FKM – FK Radio The Mixtape: The World’s Largest Mixtape (with Fat Killahz)
2017: Foul World (with L.A.R.S.)

Compilations

2019: Prime Cuts (with How to Gag a Maggot)
2021: Goat (with How to Gag a Maggot)

Box sets

2020: All of Our Secrets (with How to Gag a Maggot)
2023: Dead X Dawn (with How to Gag a Maggot)