Dwelling from the newly unearth underground hip hop scene of Detroit, King
Gordy is determined to make you believe the name. With his hair braided
into the configuration of horns and an unapologetically big-b#### crew
called the Fat Killahz, King Gordy’s is not your usual emcee. His skills on
the mic and who-the-f###-are-you confidence attracted the crowned king of
Detroit, Eminem, to do three tracks on his debut album, The Entity. A hardcore Kurt Cobain fan, King Gordy dubs himself the “ghetto Edgar Allen Poe,”
and like Poe he is able to poetically delineate the depression he has
witnessed in the streets of Detroit with foresight and a passion that is
both dark and real. With every new hip hop act sounding just like the next
hip hop act, King Gordy’s visually-shocking lyrical style, grimy reality
themes, and affinity for rhyming of rock like beats make him stand out.
After playing the part of Big-O in 8 Mile and dropping his album, all of
Detroit is starting to recognize, now he wants the entire hip hop community
to know King Gordy.
Allhiphop: Describe the feel of your album, The Entity.
King Gordy: It’s hip hop with a rock edge, it’s something new. It’s
something like people ain’t really doing. It’s a whole new feel for hip
hop.
Allhiphop: You said that you feel hip hop saved you life, what do you mean
by that?
King Gordy: Cause I was selling crack in vacant houses and sh*t. All my
n##### was robbing n#####, making n##### get the f*ck on the floor. So it’s
like that sh*t saved me man. Cause I know if I’m broke, broke as hell and I
know you got it, I’m gone take that sh*t flat out, cause I’m not gone starve
and you eating. So this rap sh*t saved me.
Allhiphop: You did have a problem where you went to jail?
King Gordy: Yeah, I’ve been to jail, selling heroine and sh*t man. I got
caught in a raid and ended up doing 9 months, which wasn’t sh*t cause it’s
the county and I knew everybody. Plus I was still written rhymes will I was
in there.
Allhiphop: When you came out, what made you want to put 110% into the rap
thing?
King Gordy: People was saying I was hot, people was say I was there, so I
pursued it. It’s easy for your friends to tell you it’s hot, but when other
people that don’t know you saying you hot cause they just hearing you rhyme,
then you got something going.
Allhiphop: So it was that buzz on the street that propelled you to full
commitment?
King Gordy: I was knew I wanted to be something, I was always gone do
something in music cause I’m musically inclined. I put a 110% into because
this is my life this is what I do, and if I’ve been writing since I was
eight years old something told to do this, so that’s what I did.
Allhiphop: Getting back to the album, it’s pretty dark.
King Gordy: It’s morbid.
Allhiphop: Talk about that.
King Gordy: It’s how I be feeling at the time, sometimes I feel violent,
sometimes I feel depressed, sometimes I feel morbid or whatever, so I’m just
giving you how I feel at that time, it’s my emotion, that’s all.
Allhiphop: Why is the name of your album the Entity?
King Gordy: Because I’m my own spirit, so I feel like there are no
boundaries with that name.
Allhiphop: How did you land your deal?
King Gordy: My man [Bizarre] from D12, he heard me and like what he heard so
he hooked up with me and took me under his wing. I started doing songs with
him and he started introducing me to people. And one he had come up to Web
Entertainment which is Mark and Jeff Bass, they are the CEO’s and the cats
that pioneered Marshall [Eminem]. And so I was playing some sh*t for
Bizarre, they heard it, they liked it, so they called me in for a meeting
like man we think you got something going, you got horns on your head, you a
good guy and you rhyme fierce, so we broke Marshall, now we’re gona try to
break you.
Allhiphop: How was making the album
King Gordy: The album was headed a whole bunch of different directions
until I said let me do me, let me do what I feel I would like to do, cause
see I make music for me, I don’t make music for the average consumer. So
the average consumer might not buy it, but they might buy it if they tired
of listening to the regular s###.
Allhiphop: How did you get your part as Big-O in 8 Mile?
King Gordy: I just went down there and auditioned?
Allhiphop: How did you hook up with Eminem?
King Gordy: I’m on Web Entertainment, so it was bound to happen anyway. Em
had been seeing me in the studio doing my thing and my manager had talked to
him about giving me some beats or whatever, so one day he just walked into
Web like ‘man Gordy I heard you wanted some beats,’ so he gave them to me
and it’s history.
Allhiphop: How was it working with him?
King Gordy: It’s beautiful, Em is a work horse, he inspires me to just stay
in the studio even when I ain’t doing nothing, just to be in the element of
it. So I love Marshall.
Allhiphop: You said your music has a rock edge to it, what do you listen
to?
King Gordy: I listen mainly to Kurt Cobain.
Allhiphop: Does that influence your music?
King Gordy: It doesn’t really influence it, but I relate to Kurt so that’s
what I listen to. It’s like Kurt felt how I felt, that’s why the name of my
second album will be The Kurt Cobain Theory. But right now the album is in
stores man, The Entity?
Allhiphop: What’s up with your group, The Fat Killahz?
King Gordy: Awww, the world famous Fat Killahz, there is none before and
there will be none after. You have the incredible, Marvin Wonderful, the
you have Shim-e-Bango aka the black Chris Farley, then you have me King
Gordy the great, aka, Gordy Cobain and you have the leader of it all, the
founder, the Fatt Father, which makes up the Fat-tastik Four, the Fat
Killahz.
Allhiphop: What can people expect from you all?
King Gordy: We about eating and killing and being lyrical, we’re all
fierce. We’re probably one of the elite groups that’ll kill you line for
line. We cocky, we ain’t arrogant, but we confident. We’re probably the
best thing to happen to rap music since the mp3.
Allhiphop: Are the Fat Killahz working on anything right now?
King Gordy: We working on a mixtape.
Allhiphop: Do you have any artist?
King Gordy: Nah, just me and the Fat Killahz
Allhiphop: Finally dude, tell us what’s up with the horns?
King Gordy: Aww man, that’s just how I was born.
