The Gimp Origin

The "Gimp" started writing songs when he was 5 years old in Melbourne, Fl. Gordon got the derogatory name "Gimp" when a kid named Billy beat him up in the sixth grade at Silver Lakes Middle School in North Lauderdale. He said he hated the name until he was a freshman at J.P. Taravella, when his classmate Phil McNeil called him that randomly after Gordon tripped over himself and burst out laughing. He donned his name the Gimp. He cites that he was shocked when his best friend, Phil, died in the Iraq war in January 2007. The name has become his identity, with that name merging with his real name, Gordon, as acceptable.

Violence Matters and Long Oil Venture (2001-2002)

His first taste of the music industry was performing at open mics at clubs, and he gained most of his notoriety through word of mouth in Lake Worth, Florida. A group called ONS (Ouija N Swizz), Adam Wilt, and Dave Aubrey formed a record label called Long Oil Records. They released Got Chicken and later Thugs, Drugs and the Iron Pepperoni (abbr. TDOIP). The Gimp was a guest artist on this album, recording Friends Forever. This record to date is their most successful album ONS ever produced. In the summer of that year, after graduating from Santaluces (he went to a new school for his senior year), they formed a loose collective of emcees to produce Violence Matters. The collection was Ouija, Swizz, Jellyfish, and the Gimp. See below for discography. They recorded this album in a week's time over popular beats. The inspiration for this album came from the group's thinking that they could be as "violent" as some of the people putting out albums around that time. This album is an over-the-top look at three violent MCs, the Gimp, Ouija, and Jellyfish. It starts off in a dream and ends in hell. Each track progressively gets darker and more sinister, culminating in the murder of the Lake Worth police force and the suicide of the police chief. They have a secret song on this album called "100 Percent," with a beat by Swizz (Dave Aubrey). This song has become an underground classic along with Zuga. Combined, these two songs have received over 100,000 hits across various websites.

In the Flesh Recordings (2006)

His first release was Enigma, the EP. This was a conceptual album. Establishing the raw lyrical style he would release, and his first glimpse into the marketing side of running his own record label. This was the first album on which the moral appeared. See below for discography. This record was a very small release, selling 1,600 copies in two weeks. Next came In the Flesh, his sophomore EP. This album sold twice as much as the first EP, and the Gimp saw an opportunity to create an original, creative album that could not be classified. White noise is present on these records; from this, his moniker became "The Gimp: The Phantom."

Hallowed Ground Recordings and Limited (2006-Present)

The Vision came to him after he analyzed his rhyme patterns and songs and realized that, no matter what they were about, they had a movie quality. He set out on an ambitious project that took him 5 years to complete. Meanwhile, the fans always had new independent songs to listen to every couple of weeks. There are certain words on this record "misspelled". Some are compound words that make sense separately. Such as Sole Discretion is spelled Sole Descretion. (Meaning Soul Desecration) " Wrapped in Ancient Cloth" is spelled two different ways: "Ancient" and "Anchient". Both are grammatically correct; the one with the "h" is Middle English, and the one without it is modern. The Phoenix is spelled The Phenoix. This is an ode to the comic-book name for Jean Grey: The Phoenix. Also, on Sole Descretion, it purposely skips. Using static and pitch bends, and layering them, he achieved the effect that not everything can be discussed as articulately as some things. Life is painful, so the Gimp makes his music to reflect that.

Ethereal Matter Corporation (2018-)

Gimp went to the 58th and 59th Grammy Awards. He's coming out with his Auditory Hallucinations. Ethereal Matter came to be after the Gimp wanted to incorporate his Limited Liability Company. He chose the name in honor of his sister Brandy (Ydnarb), who lost her battle with cancer in 2018. Ethereal Matter means "too perfect for this realm, something other worldly." That is how he honored his sister.

The next record is called Lucid Nightmare.