Mickey Factz
| Mickey Factz | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Mark Williams Jr. |
| Born |
July 13, 1982 New York City, New York, United States |
| Genres | Hip hop, alternative, electronic |
| Occupation(s) | Rapper, producer, songwriter |
| Years active | 2005– |
| Labels | Conglomerate Records/Battery Records/Jive |
| Website | MickeyFactz.com |
Mark Williams (born July 13, 1982), better known by his stage name Mickey Factz, is an American hip hop recording artist from the Bronx borough of New York City, New York.
Mickey Factz attended Adlai E. Stevenson High School, which is known for being the high school of hip hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa. The school is notable for delivering students of musical prowess.
Factz was exposed to music at an early age and his father would frequently rap to him. In return, he began reciting his very own rhymes, watching music videos, and studying the performances of his favorite music artists. After high school, Factz went to New York University School of Law where he dropped out to pursue music
Mickey Factz did many freestyles over N.E.R.D instrumentals on In Search of N*E*R*D (2006) in which he specifically rapped over N*E*R*D instrumentals. Here Mickey Factz collaborated with Steve-O who pushed him to really begin to listen to N*E*R*D and served as creative inspiration. Factz then worked to chop up the beats and make the project unique, gaining the attention of Pharrell himself.
Flashback Vol.1: Back to the Future (2007), which was created in order to pay homage to the type of music that Factz grew up with. Mickey recorded about 40 tracks in total for this album and even after recording, he entered into another process that included the remix of over half the songs and instrumentals.
For 2008's The Leak, Vol.1: The Understanding, Factz leaked one song every week on MySpace for 17 weeks. One of the songs, "I'm Sean (50 Shots More)", was written from the perspective of Sean Bell, who was killed by New York police in 2006.
In a 2008 interview Factz recalled, "I had heard a few records from some New York artists, whose names I won’t mention, and I wasn’t very pleased with what they were doing. [...] I decided that I was going to get in the shoes of Sean Bell and talk about the night of him dying, him at his funeral, him seeing the press conferences and him just talking to the youth and letting them know that we have to come together and do better than what’s going on right now." Factz's song-per-week release strategy was also used for The Leak, Vol.2: The Inspiration, which contains guest appearances by Drake, Travie McCoy, and Tanya Morgan. The music video for "Rockin' N Rollin'", featuring The Cool Kids and produced by Precize, was added to rotation at MTV. Factz was named to XXL magazine's "Freshmen Class of '09" issue in 2008.
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