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Carib family (by John Gabriel Stedman)

Drawing of a Carib woman

Carib, Island Carib, or Kalinago people, after whom the Caribbean was named, are a group of people who live in the Lesser Antilles islands. They are an Amerindian people whose origins lie in the southern West Indies and the northern coast of South America.

The people spoke either a Carib language or a pidgin, but the Caribs' regular raids on other groups resulted in so many female Arawak captives that it was not uncommon for the women to speak Kalhíphona, a Maipurean language (Arawakan).^[1] In the southern Caribbean, they co-existed with a related Cariban-speaking group, the Galibi. They lived in separate villages in Grenada, Tobago, Dominica and St.Vincent.

History[link]

The Caribs are believed to have migrated from the Orinoco River area in South America to settle in the Caribbean islands about 1200 AD, according to carbon dating. Over the century leading up to Columbus' arrival in the Caribbean archipelago in 1492, the Caribs mostly displaced the Maipurean-speaking Taínos, who settled the island chains earlier in history, by warfare, extermination and assimilation.^[2]

Greenstone ceremonial axe. From shell midden, Mt Irvine Bay, Tobago, 1957.

Carib islanders traded with the Eastern Taíno of the Caribbean Islands. The Caribs produced the silver which Ponce de Leon found in Taíno communities. None of the insular Amerindians mined for gold, but obtained it by trade from the mainland. The Caribs were skilled boatbuilders and sailors. They appeared to have owed their dominance in the Caribbean basin to their mastery of warfare.

The Caribs were displaced by the Europeans with a great loss of life; most fatalities resulting from Eurasian infectious diseases to which they had no immunity, as well as warfare. Others were assimilated during the colonial period; a few retained areas such as in Dominica. Small populations survive, specifically in the Carib Territory in northeast Dominica.

The 'Black Caribs' (later known as Garifuna) of St. Vincent ( St.Vincent has some "Yellow caribs' as well) were descended from group of enslaved Africans who were marooned from shipwrecks of slave ships, as well as slaves who escaped here. They intermarried with the Carib and formed the last native culture to resist the British. It was not until 1795 that British colonists transported the Black Carib to Roatan Island, off Honduras. Their descendants continue to live there today and are known as the Garifuna ethnic group. Carib resistance delayed the settlement of Dominica by Europeans, and the Carib communities that remained in St. Vincent and Dominica retained a degree of autonomy well into the 19th century.

The last known speakers of Island Carib died in the 1920s, and the language is extinct.

People[link]

Audience Carib people with the Dutch Governor in Paramaribo, Suriname, 1880.

Because of Dominica's rugged area, Caribs were able to hide from European forces. The island's east coast includes a 3,700-acre (15 km²) territory known as the Carib Territory that was granted to the people by the British Crown in 1903. There are only 3000 Caribs remaining. They elect their own chief. In July 2003, Caribs observed 100 Years of Territory. In July 2004, Charles Williams was elected as Carib Chief,^[3] who was succeeded by Chief Garnette Joseph. It is said that they are the only remaining full-blood native Carib people, although some have intermarried with the non-Carib Dominican population.

Several hundred ethnic Carib descendants live in Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, U. S. Virgin Islands, Antigua & Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Aruba as well as in St. Vincent, the size of which is not known. Some ethnic Carib communities remain on the South American mainland, in countries such as Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and in the country of Belize. The size of these communities varies widely.

Music[link]

Garifuna music from the Garifuna people, the descendants of Carib, Arawak and West African people and is quite different from the music created rest of Central America. The most famous form is punta. Its associated musical style, which has the dancers move their hips in a circular motion. An evolved form of traditional music, still usually played using traditional instruments, punta has seen some modernization and electrification in the 1970s; this is called punta rock. Traditional punta dancing is consciously competitive. Artists like Pen Cayetano helped innovate modern punta rock by adding guitars to the traditional music, and paved the way for later artists like Andy Palacio, Children of the Most High and Black Coral. Punta was popular across the region, especially in Belize, by the mid-1980s, culminating in the release of Punta Rockers in 1987, a compilation featuring many of the genre's biggest stars.

Other forms of Garifuna music and dance include: hungu-hungu, combination, wanaragua, abaimahani, matamuerte, laremuna wadaguman, gunjai, sambai, charikanari, eremuna egi, paranda, berusu, punta rock, teremuna ligilisi, arumahani, and Mali-amalihani. Punta is the most popular dance in Garifuna culture. It is performed around holidays and at parties and other social events. Punta lyrics are usually composed by the women. Chumba and hunguhungu are a circular dance in a three-beat rhythm, which is often combined with punta. There are other songs typical to each gender, women having eremwu eu and abaimajani, rhythmic a cappella songs, and laremuna wadaguman, men's work songs, chumba and hunguhungu, a circular dance in a three-beat rhythm, which is often combined with punta.

Drums play a very important role in Garifuna music. There are primarily two types of drums used: the primero (tenor drum) and the segunda (bass drum). These drums are typically made of hollowed-out hardwood such as mahogany or mayflower, with the skins coming from the peccary (wild bush pig), deer, or sheep.

Also used in combination with the drums are the sisera. These shakers are made from the dried fruit of the gourd tree, filled with seeds, then fitted with hardwood handles.

Paranda music developed soon after the Garifunas arrival in Central America. The music is instrumental and percussion-based. The music was barely recorded until the 1990s, when Ivan Duran of Stonetree Records began the Paranda Project.

In contemporary Belize there has been a resurgence of Garifuna music, popularized by musicians such as Andy Palacio, Mohobub Flores, & Adrian Martinez. These musicians have taken many aspects from traditional Garifuna music forms and fused them with more modern sounds. Described as a mixture of punta rock and paranda. One great example is Andy Palacio's album Watina, and Umalali: The Garifuna Women's Project, both released on the Belizean record label Stonetree Records.

In the Garifuna culture, there is another dance called Dugu. This dance is a ritual done for a death in the family to pay their respect to their loved ones. In 2001, Garifuna music was proclaimed one of the masterpieces of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity by UNESCO.

Religion[link]

Caribs are believed to have been polytheists. As the Spanish began to colonise the Caribbean area, they wanted to convert the natives to Catholicism.^[4]

The Kalingo religion practised by the Carib had elements similar to the ancestor worship of the Taíno. They believed in an evil spirit called Maybouya, who had to be placated for an individual to avoid harm. The chief function of their shamans, called buyeis, was to heal the sick with herbs and to cast spells (piai) which would keep Maybouya at bay. The buyeis were very important and underwent special training instead of becoming warriors. As they were held to be the only people who could avert evil, they were treated with great respect. Their ceremonies were accompanied with sacrifices. As with the Arawaks and other Native Americans, the Carib smoked tobacco in the rituals of their religion.

Patriarchy[link]

Early Carib culture was patriarchal. Women carried out the important domestic duties of rearing young children, processing and producing food and clothing, and cultivating the land for farming, including sowing and harvesting. In the 17th century, Europeans reported that the women, with their children, lived in separate houses from men, a custom recorded among other South American tribes.

The women were highly revered and held substantial socio-political power.^[5] Island Carib society was reputedly more socially egalitarian than Taíno society. Although there were village chiefs and war leaders, there were no large states or multi-tiered aristocracy. The local self-government unit may have been the longhouse dwellings populated by men or women, typically run by one or more chieftains reporting to an island council.

Cannibalism[link]

Carib Warrior (Mixed Media Sculpture by artist George S. Stuart)

The Carib word karibna meant "person". It became the origin of the English "cannibal". Although among the Carib, it was apparently associated with rituals related to the eating of war enemies, some Europeans believed the Carib practiced general cannibalism.

The Kalinago had a tradition of keeping bones of their ancestors in their houses. Missionaries such as Père Jean Baptiste Labat and Cesar de Rochefort described the practice as part of a belief that the ancestral spirits would always look after the bones and protect their descendants.

Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano was killed and said to have been eaten by Carib natives on what is now Guadeloupe (French West Indies) in 1528 (before called "Karukera" by the Amerindian people which means: the island of beautiful waters), during his third voyage to North America, after exploring Florida, the Bahamas and the Lesser Antilles.

Historians^[6] have described the cannibalism as related to war rituals. Columbus and his people did not understand what they were seeing, and they were shocked at this cannibalism. In 1503, Queen Isabella ruled that only people who were better off under slavery (a definition which explicitly included cannibals) could legally be taken as slaves. This provided Spaniards an incentive and legalistic pretext for identifying various Amerindian groups as cannibals to enslave them and take their lands away.

To this day, the Kalinago people fight against what they regard as a misconception about their ancestors. The film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was criticised by the National Garifuna Council for portraying the Carib people as cannibals.

In Myths and realities of Caribbean history the author Basil A. Reid concluded that "No evidence, either archaeological or from firsthand observations by Europeans, conclusively proves that Island-Caribs ever consumed human flesh." ^[7]

See also[link]

• Carib Expulsion
• Santa Rosa Carib Community

References[link]

Additional reading[link]

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Traveller's Tree, 1950, pp 214–5

Resources[link]

• Allaire, Louis (1997). "The Caribs of the Lesser Antilles", in Samuel M. Wilson, The Indigenous People of the Caribbean, pp. 180–185. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-1531-6.
• Steele, Beverley A. (2003). Grenada, A history of its people, New York: Macmillan Education, pp. 11–47
• Honeychurch, Lennox, The Dominica Story, MacMillan Education, 1995.
• Davis, D and Goodwin R.C. "Island Carib Origins: Evidence and non-evidence", American Antiquity, vol.55 no.1(1990).
• Eaden, John, The Memoirs of Père Labat, 1693–1705, Frank Cass, 1970.
• "Carib", Ethnologue
• "Kalinago", Name change announcement of November 15, 2010, by the Office of the Kalinago Council posted at Dominica News Online

External links[link]

• Mainland Carib artwork, National Museum of the American Indians

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Dominica's East coast territory of the Kalinago (tribe)

The Carib Territory or Carib Reserve is a 3,700-acre (15 km²) district in the Caribbean island-nation of Dominica. It was established for the descendants of the indigenous Carib people, also known as the Kalinago, who inhabited Dominica prior to European colonization and settlement.

The Carib Territory was officially formed by British colonial authorities in 1903, in a remote and mountainous area of Dominica's Atlantic coast. Its population remained largely isolated from the rest of the island throughout most of the 20th century, with only a ceremonial chief and no other formal self-governance. An incident later known as "the Carib War" escalated from a brief skirmish in the Territory in 1930, when law enforcement attempted to crack down on smuggling, to a political controversy ending with the abolition of the post of chief. The Chief was reinstated in 1952, and formalized local government was instituted the same year as part of an island-wide system. The Carib Reserve Act, enacted the year of Dominica's independence in 1978, reaffirmed the Carib Territory's boundaries, its land management, and institutions of local government. In the last decades of the 20th century, modern utilities and infrastructure were finally introduced to the Carib Territory, which also established contacts with foreign governments and other indigenous peoples in the region.

The present population of the Carib Territory is estimated around 3,000 Caribs. Legal residents share communal ownership of all land within the Territory. The Carib Territory has limited local government in the institutions of the Carib Council, and its head the Carib Chief, which are the equivalent in power of village councils and council chairpersons elsewhere in Dominica. The administrative centre is in Salybia, the largest of eight hamlets in the Carib Territory.

A modern movement in the Carib Territory has supported the rediscovery and preservation of Carib culture. This has been fueled in part by Dominica's tourist industry. A model Carib village was established in the Territory in 2006. Cultural preservation groups stage performances at the model village and other locations, and practice traditional Carib crafts, such as making baskets and pottery, that are sold to tourists as souvenirs.

History[link]

Establishment of the Carib Reserve[link]

Dominica is the only Eastern Caribbean island that still has a population of pre-Columbian native Caribs, who were exterminated or driven from neighbouring islands. The Caribs on Dominica fought against the Spanish and later European settlers for two centuries. Over time, however, their population declined and they were forced into remote regions of the island as European settlers and imported African slaves grew in number on the island.^[1] The first reservation of land for the Carib people occurred in 1763, when 232 acres (0.94 km²) of mountainous land and rocky shoreline around Salybia, on the east coast, were set aside by British colonial authorities as part of the surveying of the island and its division into lots.^[2] A legend arose that this land was set aside by the request of Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III; from this another legend spread, and persisted among some Carib to the present, that Charlotte had set aside half of Dominica for the Carib people.^[3] Later colonial officials were unable to locate any record of a title deed for the 232 acres (0.94 km²), however.^[4] European settlers continued attempts to turn the Carib lands into plantations through the end of the 18th century, but the Caribs successfully held out, often with the assistance of runaway slaves.^[5]

In 1902, Henry Hesketh Bell, the Administrator of Dominica, sent a lengthy report to the Colonial Office on the state of the Carib people after he had visited its communities.^[6] He proposed that 3,700 acres (roughly 2% of Dominica's area) be set aside for the Caribs, and that a Carib "chief" be officially recognized and given a token annual allowance of 6 pounds. Bell's proposals were adopted in 1903, formally establishing the Carib Reserve.^[7] Its boundaries were announced in the Official Gazette of Dominica on 4 July, 1903.^[8] The Carib Chief was subsequently endowed with a silver-headed staff, and a ceremonial sash embroidered with "The Chief of the Caribs" in gothic lettering.^[9] At the time the Carib Reserve was established, the Carib population of around 400 was extremely isolated from the rest of Dominica, but the community appreciated the token symbols.^[10]

"The Carib War"[link]

The population of the Carib Reserve remained disconnected from the rest of Dominica, seldom seen and largely self-sustaining apart from some limited illegal trade with the neighboring French islands of Marie Galante and Martinique.^[11] The colonial Administrator decided to crack down on this smuggling due to its impact on revenues, and in 1930, five armed policemen entered the Territory to seize smuggled goods and to arrest suspects.^[12] When the police tried to seize a quantity of rum and tobacco and to take away suspects in Salybia, a crowd gathered in response and hurled stones and bottles. The police fired into the crowd, injuring four, of whom two later died. The police were beaten but managed to escape to Marigot, without having seized prisoners or contraband. The Administrator responded by summoning the frigate HMS Delhi to the coast, which fired star shells into the air and displayed searchlights along the shore; the Caribs ran in fear from this display of force and hid in the woods. Marines landed to aid local police in the search for the perpetrators of the disturbance. Accurate news of the incident was difficult to come by, and rumors instead spread throughout the island of a Carib uprising. The Times incorrectly reported that Caribs had looted and rioted in the capital, Roseau.^[13] The incident is still hyperbolically known as "The Carib War."^[14]

Carib Chief Jolly John subsequently surrendered to authorities in Roseau and was charged, with five other Caribs, with wounding the police officers and theft, though the prosecution fell apart by the following year.^[15] A commission of inquiry was appointed in 1931 by the Governor of the Leeward Islands to investigate the 1930 incident and the situation of the Caribs generally. The final report found fault on all sides. As a consequence for the Caribs, the position of Chief was eliminated, the staff and sash were confiscated, and the former chief was forbidden to call himself "king."^[16]

Local government and modern developments[link]

The Administrator did not relent to Carib petitions for the restoration of the position of Chief until June 1952, when he personally conducted an investiture ceremony and presented the new chief with the staff and sash.^[17] Later that year, the Carib Council was created as part of a system of local government for the whole island.^[18]

The Carib Reserve Act was enacted in 1978, the year of Dominican independence. It reaffirmed the boundaries set in 1903, and legally established common ownership of land within the Carib Reserve.^[19] A broader consequence of the Act was a renewed interest in the distinctiveness of Carib identity and in Carib culture.^[20] Though under the Carib Reserve Act, the area's official name is the Carib Reserve, the Carib people themselves, however, prefer the name Carib Territory, and that name is now in more popular use.^[21] Considering the word "reserve" a relic of colonialism and exploitation, Carib Territory residents have urged the Dominica House of Assembly to officially change the name.^[22]

The communities of the Carib Territory remained isolated into the late 20th century. A motorable road was not laid through the Territory until 1970; telephone service and electricity were established in the 1980s.^[23] The Carib Territory was one of the last areas of Dominica to receive electricity, which began to be installed in 1986.^[24] By 1990, 55% of Carib households still did not have access to electricity, and 85% of households did not live within 5 minutes of their nearest water supply.^[25] The Carib people have remained possibly the poorest segment of the population of Dominica, which is in turn one of the poorest countries of the Lesser Antilles.^[26]

In the 1980s, the Carib Territory began to receive material, financial and ideological support from foreign governments, including the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.^[27] The Territory's leaders also reached out to other indigenous populations in the region, organizing a conference held in Saint Vincent; the Caribbean Organization of Indigenous Peoples was subsequently formed.^[28] Successive Carib Chiefs also worked with the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations.^[29]

Geography[link]

The Carib Territory is located in the northeast of Dominica, on the Atlantic (windward) coast. It comprises 3,700 acres (15 km²) in Saint David Parish, within boundaries first established by colonial authorities in 1903, and reaffirmed in Articles 41 and 42 of the Carib Reserve Act in 1978.^[30] The Dominican government may grant additional lands to the Territory, though it has never done so.^[31]

Most of the territory is uninhabited.^[32] Though the Carib Territory adjoins Dominica's east coast, due to its rugged topography it only has two access points to the Atlantic Ocean, both of which are difficult landings.^[33] The land is mostly of poor quality, with the worst soil erosion on Dominica, and deforestation that has destroyed many streams in the Territory.^[34]

The Carib Council and police station are located in the hamlet of Salybia, the administrative center of the Carib Territory.^[35] There are seven other hamlets in the Carib Territory: Bataca, Crayfish River, St Cyr, Gaulette River, Mahaut River, Sinekou and Touna Aute. Aside from small shops selling Carib crafts, these settlements, and the small farms surrounding them, do not differ significantly from the rest of Dominica.^[36]

Demographics[link]

The Carib Territory has an estimated population of around 3,000, which makes it the largest settlement of indigenous people in the Caribbean.^[37] The population of the Carib Territory was only around 400 at the time of its formation in 1903.^[38] This has grown over time, both in absolute numbers and in proportion to the total population of Dominica. In 1970, the population of the Carib Territory was 1.6% of Dominica's total population.^[39] As of the 1991 government census, this had increased to 3.5%, with the population of the Carib Territory (including the nearby non-Carib village, Atkinson) counted at 2,518 people; this increase was reflected in a large proportion of young adults and children.^[40]

Residents of the Carib Territory are among the poorest in Dominica.^[41] Territory residents are less educated, and have fewer work opportunities than other segments of the island's population.^[42]

Government and land management[link]

The Carib Council comprises five members and the presiding Carib Chief. Popular elections are held every five years. Notwithstanding the different titles, these institutions have the same powers and responsibilities as other village councils in Dominica, with the Carib Chief equal to a village council chairman.^[43]

The Kalinago are also represented in the House of Assembly of Dominica as part of the Salybia constituency. Though its Representative has more power in practice, the Carib Chief is utilized more as a spokesperson for the Territory.^[44]

As established by Article 25(1) of the Carib Reserve Act, all land within the Carib Territory is under the "sole custody, management and control" of the Carib Council and Chief.^[45] No individuals can buy or sell parcels of land or encumber it as collateral. Carib residents instead have usufruct rights: they can claim vacant, unused land to work and build a home upon, subject to approval by the Carib Council.^[46] Land left untended for more than a year is considered vacant and may be claimed.^[47] Soil erosion and deforestation have been attributed to this common ownership, as the land is intensively used by a rapid succession of tenants.^[48]

Because of the usufruct rights over the communally-held land, legal residency in the Territory is a significant issue. Under Article 51 of the Carib Reserve Act, an individual becomes a legal resident and member of the Carib Territory community by birth; if at least one parent is Carib; or after 12 years of lawful residency within the Territory.^[49] The latter criteria has been a target of criticism from the Carib people, who view it as a means by which non-Caribs may appropriate their land.^[50]

Culture and tourism[link]

Beginning in the late 20th century, the people of the Carib Territory have had a renewed interest in Carib culture and identity. This has been motivated in part by the tourism industry in Dominica, in the forms of both ecotourism and cultural tourism.^[51] The Territory and its residents receive very little revenue from tourism, however; there is no entry fee for visitors or any site management fees charged for nature activities, and most visitors stay and arrange their travel from outside the Territory.^[52] Images of the Carib Territory and its people have also been used to promote tourism to Dominica as a whole, rather than the Carib Territory specifically.^[53]

Carib arts and crafts are widely sold in the Territory, and elsewhere in Dominica, as souvenirs.^[54] Chief among these is the larouma reed basket, which is handmade in brown, white, and black traditional designs; this craft has been noted as one of the few enduring aspects of traditional Carib culture.^[55]

The Kalinago Barana Auté, a representation of a pre-Columbian Carib village, is located in the hamlet of Crayfish River.^[56] In the Carib language, the name translates to "Kalinago cultural village by the sea." It opened in April 2006, with funding from the Dominican government. The village was based on a concept of Faustulus Frederick, who served as Carib Chief from 1975 to 1978. Its goal is to recreate and promote awareness of Carib traditions and culture. Its central feature is a karbet, a kind of large hut that used to be located in the center of a Carib village.^[57] The karbet is used to stage presentations of Carib culture, such as dance performances. Other traditional cultural demonstrations at the Kalinago Barana Auté include pottery making, cassava processing, and basket weaving.^[58]

Numerous organizations seek to preserve, teach, and promote Carib culture. Among these are the Karifuna Cultural Group and Carina Cultural Group, which stage music and dance performances for tourists at the Kalinago Barana Auté and a small stage in Bataca.^[59] The Karifuna Cultural Group has traveled throughout the Caribbean, as well as South America and Europe, promoting Carib cultural heritage. The Carina Cultural Group has also established ties with Amerindian groups in South America. The Waitukubuli Karifuna Development Committee has built several traditional buildings in Salybia. Among these is the church of St. Marie of the Caribs, which is decorated with murals depicting Carib history, and has a Carib canoe for an altar.^[60]

See also[link]

• Chief of the Carib Territory
• Indigenous movements in the Americas
• Indian reservation
• Indian reserve

Notes[link]

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Hulme, Peter (2001), Remnants of Conquest: the Island Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877-1998, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-811215-7 . Accounts and analysis of the writings of visitors to the Carib Territory.

External links[link]

• Official website of the Kalinago Barana Auté

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King Gordy
King Gordy in 2010.
Background information
Birth name	Waverly W. Alford III
Also known as	Cobain The Dead, The King Of Horrorcore, Dark Lord Vader
Born	(1977-08-18) August 18, 1977 (age 34)
Origin	Detroit, Michigan, United States
Genres	Hardcore hip hop, horrorcore
Years active	2000 – present
Labels	Web Entertainment, KLP Management, Morbid Music LLC
Associated acts	Fat Killahz, D12, Bizarre, Project: Deadman, Prozak, Krizz Kaliko, The R.O.C., The Davidians, Tech N9ne, Proof, Eminem, Swifty McVay, John Drama, Royce Da 5'9', Obie Trice
Website	www.kinggordy.com

Waverly W. Alford III (born August 18, 1977), better known by his stage name King Gordy, is an American rapper.^[1]

Biography[link]

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.^[2] He is well known for having his hair braided into two horns on his head.^[3]

Film career[link]

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".^[4] It is his only credit to acting.

The Davidians[link]

Consisting of King Gordy and Bizarre of D-12, Davidians was featured on Esham's mixtape The Butcher Shop. The duo is currently seeking a record label.^[5]

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• 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 II
• 2010: Xerxes The God-King
• 2011: Sings the Blues

EP's[link]

• 2011: Jesus Christ's Mistress^[6]

Albums with Fat Killahz[link]

• 2004: WFKR 31.3 FKM: FK Radio The Mixtape
• 2005: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
• 2011: The EP

Guest appearances[link]

• 2002: Life (Promatic)
• 2004: Access Denied (Project Deadman, Tech N9ne)
• 2004: No Rest For The Wicked (Project Deadman)
• 2004: Rob U N Da Club (1st Born featuring Proof & D.U.)
• 2004: Run Up on Us (Proof featuring T-Flame, Banzi & Young Breed)
• 2005: Ghetto Music (Bizarre) featuring Swifty McVay & Stic Man
• 2005: No T. Lose (Proof)
• 2005: Cobain The Dead Intro (Devil's Nite 2005)
• 2005: Scream (Mr. Wrong a.k.a. Bareda featuring Swifty McVay
• 2005: Evil (Fatt Father)
• 2005: Dance (Fatt Father featuring Marv Won & Lovejoy)
• 2006: Oh Mary! (Bizarre featuring Livio & Gambino)
• 2006: Six Deaths (Fury) featuring Mattrix
• 2006: Antidote Medicine (Esham) featuring Lavel
• 2007: Don't Hate (D12)
• 2007: Put Your Hands Up For Detroit (Fedde Le Grand) featuring Bizarre
• 2007: Rock Out (Bizarre)
• 2007: Knock Em Out (Bizarre) featuring Tech N9ne
• 2007: Animal (Bizarre) featuring Razaaq
• 2007: Wicked (Bizarre) featuring Twiztid
• 2007: Cakin (Bizarre) featuring Dub, Gam, & Scarchild
• 2007: Fat Boy (Bizarre)
• 2007: Monster (Jehovah Jihad)
• 2007: 1980's (Bizarre)
• 2007: Stay Calm (Bizarre)
• 2007: Look Out below (Guilty Simpson featuring Bizarre)
• 2007: Squeez EZ (Guilty Simpson featuring Fatt Father)
• 2008: I Am Gone (D12)
• 2008: This Situation (D12)
• 2008: Cheating In The Bedroom (D12)
• 2008: Win Or Lose (Swifty McVay)
• 2008: You're Not Gangsta (D12)
• 2008: Mrs. Pitts (D12)
• 2008: Psycho, Psycho, Psycho (Prozak) featuring Bizarre
• 2008: Tyler Durden (on the Tunnel Runners album released on Hatchet House.)
• 2008: Dangerous (on DJ Clay's Let 'Em Bleed: The Mixxtape, Vol. 2) featuring The R.O.C.
• 2008: Mirror Mirror (Krizz Kaliko), originally released on the clean edition of Vitiligo, later released in explicit form on the Strange Noize Tour '08 tour exclusive album
• 2008: Mr. Christian Man (Kapital Punishment)
• 2008: Let It Rain (Spooky Z Tha Gravedigguh ft. King Gordy, DieNasty & D-Evil) (on the album "Poetry of Worms" Released on Head Hurtz Recordz)
• 2008: Everyday (Bizarre)
• 2008: Bitch You Think You Special (Bizarre)
• 2008: Your Face Is Fucked Up (Fury)
• 2008: Holocaust Interlude (Fury)
• 2008: Detroit Playaz (Fatt Father)
• 2009: The Only Ones featuring Prozak (on Mike E. Clark's Psychopathic Murder Mix Volume 1 released on Psychopathic Records)
• 2008: Oh X-mas Tree (Fatt Father featuring Guilty Simpson & Phat Kat)
• 2009: The Ultimate Villain (Hades)
• 2009: Horns (Tech N9ne) featuring Prozak
• 2009: In My Hood (Kamp Crystal Lake)
• 2009: Neverland (Bloodshot)
• 2009: Hey Haystak (Haystak Diss) (Bizarre)
• 2009: Ghetto World (Dogmatic)
• 2009: Welcome to Hell (Madecipha)
• 2010: Whatcha Smokin' On (Bizarre)
• 2010: Wild Like Us (Bizarre)
• 2010: Rock It Out (Bizarre)
• 2010: Kick The Door Down (RYM Crew)
• 2010: Welcome (Ninja Newman, Yung Rob)
• 2010: Untitled (Krazy Killaz)
• 2010: Until (Robert Illo featuring Scales Of Nappy Routes)
• 2010: Cold Hearted (Sodoma Gomora)
• 2010: Invincible (Nick Rage)
• 2010: I Ain't Crazy (Potluck, D12)
• 2010: Intro (Sinn)
• 2010: When You See Me (Whiteout, Kryptik, Grewsum)
• 2010: Fatal Masochist (T.O.N.E-z, Bad Dream)
• 2010: Wicked Minds (Three One Se7en)
• 2010: Kill Her (John Drama)
• 2011: Wicked Minds (Remix) (Three One Se7en featuring Bizzy Bone)
• 2011: Blood Sacrifice (Akvon)
• 2011: No Regrets (Dark Half, Bizarre)
• 2011: Alleywayz (Hoodu, Outsider)
• 2011: Thirteen (Kamp Crystal Lake)
• 2011: Lite That Shit Up(Potluck Ft. King Gordy)
• 2011: Fresh Meat (Cannibal Carib)
• 2011: Taking Lives (Fury ft. Bizarre & King Gordy)
• 2011: Welcome to Armageddon (Prophet the Revolution
• 2012: Fall from Grace (Jimmy Donn featuring Bizarre))
• 2012: Freedom (K.Daver ft. King Gordy)
• 2012: Nightmare (Soulja ft. King Gordy)
• 2012: Justin Bieber (Bizarre ft. King Gordy)
• 2012: Snatch Yo Carties (Bizarre ft. King Gordy)
• 2012: I Don't Know What I Did Last Night (Bizarre ft. Brotha Lynch Hung, Fury & King Gordy)

Music videos[link]

• 2003: "Nightmares"
• 2005: "Rockstar" (cameo appearance) (Bizarre)
• 2007: "Fat Boy" (Bizarre)
• 2007: "Where You From" (Bizarre, Kuniva)
• 2009: "1980's" (Bizarre)
• 2009: "RIP Gaystak" (Bizarre)
• 2010: "Watcha Smokin' On" (Bizarre)
• 2010: "Rap's Finest" (Cameo Appearance) (Bizarre & Royce da 5'9")
• 2010: "Wild Like Us" (Bizarre)
• 2010: "Sing For The Dead"
• 2011: "Taking Lives" (Fury ft. [[Bizarre (rapper)|Bizarre]] & King Gordy)
• 2012: "Justin Bieber" Bizarre feat. King Gordy

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Website
• King Gordy on Myspace
• King Gordy on Twitter