“Access Granted”: The Mickey Factz Concert Experience
You are cordially invited to an all-access mind trip to the Mickey Factz Concert Experience. Check your tickets in at the gate and prepare yourself to read about Mickey's recent performance in Boston, Mass. from an insider's perspective. As always, stay fly and live inCOLOR.
When I first entered Harper’s Ferry last Wednesday I thought it was an average dive bar and an odd place for a hip-hop concert. I half expected girls to start dancing on the bar Coyote Ugly style and a bar fight to start. What I didn’t expect to discover was that Harper’s Ferry has become a well-renowned Boston-area venue for a diverse selection of music industry heavy hitters such as Fall Out Boy, Freeway, Slick Rick and Cobra Starship. I came to the Allston, Mass. hotspot that night for a Mickey Factz concert and instead of a concert I was given an experience.
For those who are out of the tape loop, Mickey Factz is a Bronx-bred MC who gained notoriety after releasing mixtapes online in 2006. Following “In Search of the N.E.R.D.” and “Heaven’s Fallout,” Mickey released two volumes of a mixtape entitled “The Leak.” “The Leak” includes popular tracks such as “Automatic,” which features Canadian dance/rock singer Curtis Santiago and “Rockin N Rollin” featuring The Cool Kids. In early 2008, Mickey Factz promoted “The Leak” by appropriately leaking a new track every week.
I first arrived in Harper’s Ferry on Wednesday in time for Mickey’s sound check. That night he was performing with a live band of Boston-area musicians whom he had met earlier in the day. There were several opening acts that performed before Mickey including Stalley, an Ohio-born artist from Mickey’s GFCnewyork Music Group. Mickey’s goal that night was to ensure that the audience reached an optimum energy level. As the headliner of the night, he made sure that the energy level never flatlined. While die-hard fans were present in the audience, not everyone in the audience was familiar with the musical stylings of Mickey Factz. Those who came to Harper Ferry that night for alcohol and a good time were eventually drawn into Mickey’s music through his witty rhymes and personality. Eventually, he had audience members screaming his catchphrase, “It’s Mickey!” If I told you that Mickey Factz rocked out, danced, did push-ups and a Spiderman-esque climb on the venue’s ceiling pipes, you wouldn’t believe me, would you? As Mickey Factz states in his song “Incredible.” he is “visually energizing [and] clinically mesmerizing” therefore you can be assured that he did all those things and more.
The self-proclaimed “sergeant of rap” who cites Jimmy Hendrix as an influence led his band of soldiers wearing a black marching band jacket, a Society Original Products t-shirt, and contrasting chocolate and mint Nike Terminator Hi Supreme sneakers. An interesting fact about Mickey is that on his Twitter account (@MickeyFactz), he begins many of his tweets with the word “truthfully” because everything he says is the truth. Truthfully, Mickey should change his rank from “sergeant of rap” to commander of cool because he terminated the stage and left a trail of destruction in his wake.
If you are interested in learning more about Mickey Factz, check out this interview he did with Mista23 of S.A.B. radio before the concert here
