Mark Williams (born July 13, 1982), also known by his stage name Mickey Factz, is an American hip hop artist from The Bronx, NY. Early lifeedit: Mickey Factz attended Adlai E. Stevenson High School, which is known for being the high school of hip hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa. Music careeredit: 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. Mixtape Success & Freshman XXL Cover (2008-2009)edit: 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. Battery Records & The Achievement (2010-present)edit: Factz contributed a song, "Rocker", to the soundtrack of the Fight Night Round 4 video game, and he signed to Battery Records in May 2010. Mickey Factz recently finished touring with Big Sean and is working on his album The Achievement, which has no set date, but should be released in 2011. Mickey Factz became the new member of All City Chess Club when Lupe Fiasco said at a radio station "Mickey Factz is part of All City Chess Club." While in the studio recording for his debut album Mickey has tweeted that Lupe Fiasco are collaborating on a track. Also pictures of the two together have surfaced on the internet recently. Other Venturesedit: Televisionedit: Factz appeared in a Honda commercial later that year as a spokesman for the Accord.

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