Waverly Walter Alford III (born August 18, 1977), known professionally by his stage name King Gordy, is an American

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singer/rapper from

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. 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

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Early life

Alford was raised in

. His father worked for

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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.

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

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' Web Entertainment, an independent label that released the first

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's full-length album, ''

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'', 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'' in 2003, which is notable also by its audio production handled by

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

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'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 a

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album, '' King Gordy Sings the Blues'', a new Fat Killahz effort ''The E.P.'', and his first

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''Jesus Christ's Mistress''. The following year he nicknamed himself as Dark Lord Vader and dropped his second solo EP ''Hail Dark Lord Vader'', which marked him his comeback into horrorcore. He has started to aggressively promote his harder image in social media, and

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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

as a hip hop duo L.A.R.S. They released their eponymous debut album on February 16, 2018. Also since 2017, Gordy and

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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.

Confrontations

After rapper Haystak made a diss track towards

, 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,

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, D12 and Eminem. On June 28, 2013, King Gordy challenged the rapping ability of

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and other mainstream rappers (such as

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, and

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) on

. 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

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. In late 2014, Gordy released a song titled "Return Of The King", which is a diss track towards other rappers such as

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and Tyler the Creator.

Discography

Studio albums

*2003: '' The Entity'' *2006: ''

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'' *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'' * TBR: ''Anakin''

Collaborative albums

*2005: ''Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?'' (as Fat Killahz) *2017: ''How to Gag a Maggot'' (as How to Gag a Maggot) *2018: '' Last American Rock Stars'' (as L.A.R.S.) *2020: ''The House LP'' (as How to Gag a Maggot) *2021: ''II: Goat'' (as How to Gag a Maggot) *2021: ''Even Heathens'' (as Even Heathens) *2022: ''Unpleasant Never Dies'' (as Even Heathens) *2022: ''Odd Gods'' (as Even Heathens)

EP's

*2011: ''The E.P.'' (as 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'' (as How to Gag a Maggot) *2019: ''House of HorrorS'' (as Murder Rap KingZ) *2020: ''The Purge'' (as How to Gag a Maggot) *2021: ''Foster Kidz'' (with Trilogy) *2021: ''Ladon'' (with Tres Aurland) *2021: ''Horrorcore Stories'' (as Even Heathens) *2021: ''The Infected'' (as How to Gag a Maggot) *2022: ''Tales from the Darkside'' (with Psychoetry) *2022: ''Morbid Clique vs. King Gordy'' (with Morbid Clique)

Mixtapes

* 2003: ''2 Fat 2 Furious'' (as Fat Killahz) * 2017: ''Foul World'' (as L.A.R.S.)

Filmography

*'' 8 Mile'' (2002) – Big O

Awards and nominations

References

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