{"id":1418,"date":"2010-01-07T00:24:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T00:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2013-12-03T11:49:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T17:49:42","slug":"freshgordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/artists\/emcees\/freshgordon.htm","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresh Gordon began his career as a deejay.<\/p>\n

Fresh Gordon’s first vinyl appearance was on “Brooklyn Style” by The Choice MC’s on Rocky Records early in 1985.<\/p>\n

He recorded a few singles in the mid 80’s including “Feelin’ James” and “Gordy’s Groove”\u00a0(originally a b-side on a Choice MC’s<\/a> track called “Beat of the Street) which was a decent song that references The Andy Griffith Show <\/em>as part of its hook. On the b-side was “I Believe In Music” which features the MC The Jaz who is still known today.<\/p>\n

Other Fresh Gordon 12″s are “Fresh Commandments” and “My Filas” in 1986 on Tommy Boy. “My Filas” was an answer record to Run DMC’s<\/a> “My Adidas”.<\/p>\n

He actually has an pretty good voice, but his career never really took off.<\/p>\n

He produced Shelton D’s 12″ “Shelton D is Outstanding\/We Can Do This” on Zakia 1988.\u00a0 DJ Clark Kent was the DJ on this track.<\/p>\n

He later went on to work with other artists including the Fat Boys<\/a>, The Choice MC’s (of which he was a member), MC Chill, and King Tre.<\/p>\n

Gordy never aspired to be a rapper. “Gordy’s Groove” was was a last minute record that he and JP Edmund wrote recorded and mixed in about 12 hours to make the deadline for a B-Side. Gordy’s forte was production.\u00a0 Many of the Brooklyn rappers knew Gordy as we had one of the original pre production joints going.<\/p>\n

Gordy was also responsible for Salt N Pepa’s biggest hit “Push It” which was recorded at Gordy’s studio (which he was credited for) but did not receive production credits.<\/p>\n

His last known activity was some production duty on Father MC’s first album Father’s Day in 1990 on Uptown records alongside Puff Daddy.<\/p>\n

Check out a remix of “Gordy’s Groove”<\/h3>\n