Waverly W. Alford III (born August 18, 1977), better known by his stage name King Gordy, is an American rapper. He has been in the industry since 2000. He is best known for his 2003 album The Entity and his appearance in the 2002 film 8 mile. His album the Entity has been considered to be his best because it was produced by Eminem and Web Entertainment. Another one of his more popular albums would be Xerxes The God-King as it was also a Web Entertainment album. Gordy has also appeared in nearly a dozen music videos.

Biographie

King Gordy is a horrorcore rapper from Detroit, Michigan. He appeared on Bizarre's solo album. Gordy and Bizarre have been good friends since childhood. He is well known for having his hair braided into two horns on his head. In 2012 Twitter suspended Gordy for various reasons as he mentions on his album Hail Dark Lord Vader.




Film career
Aside from his hip hop career, King Gordy has appeared in the film 8 Mile (film), starring Eminem, in which King Gordy played the fictional rapper, "Big O" his character was regularly mentioned by character Wink Harris as "the fat man flipping burgers at Mickey D's", He has also appeared in the films Beef 4 and The Hitchcock of Hiphop.


The Davidians
Consisting of King Gordy himself and Bizarre of D12, The Davidians were featured on Esham's mixtape The Butcher Shop, but no material has been released by the group since then.


Confrontations
Haystak

After rapper Haystak made a diss track towards Eminem, then D12 rapper Bizarre collaborated with King Gordy to create a diss track called "Hey, Haystak." They collaborated once more for a second Haystak diss track, titled "R.I.P Haystak." Rapper Brabo Gator, who knew Haystak, then dissed King Gordy, Obie Trice, D12 and Eminem. King Gordy explained this confrontation in more detail during an interview with a Detroit radio station.

Lupe Fiasco

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. Both rappers explicitly expressed their respect for each other's craft, but insisted they would beat each other in a rap battle.

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Shooting and robbery
On February 6, 2013, King Gordy was shot 5 times during a robbery. He has recovered and is again doing music videos.

King Gordy has stated via Twitter that he will no longer perform horrorcore music unless he is paid to do so; Gordy also stated that he will be unable to attend the Gathering of the Juggalos this year, due to his recording schedule.

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