I wanted people to have a clear understanding of who Mickey MauSe was: he was kicked out of his parents home and was homeless and living in Union Square Park in NYC. MF: I want people to see me, when I shot the video. How did you come up with some of those concepts? EM: The visual treatment is particularly compelling. I really became the person and when people hear the project, they're going to understand the congruent nature of Mickey Factz and Mickey MauSe. I wore the same clothes and let my hair grow and confused my mother and my friends but becoming the character Mickey MauSe was an exceptional change in my life. But people think I've changed my name, that I grew my hair out, that I'm some other person I was just playing a part in the short film documentary and I had to become the character. I just created a character in a different time frame. EM: How much of YOU is in Mickey MauSe? Where does he stop and you begin? MF: The story is mostly based on my life with the exception of HIV/AIDS. I sampled Dangermouse and Deadmau5 and I created this whole story and character out of nothing.
But I created the character out of nothing, I produced everything on the project. But so what? Nobody cares." I said, "What are you talking about?" He said, "There's no subject what you should do is create a character who is alive around the Basquiat, Warhol period of time and is a graffiti artist during that time." And for me from there, it was pretty easy conceptually but it was still a very hard task to grapple with because it was a lot of material to cover. I went to my A&R, Steve-O, and he said, "Okay, this is cool. It was called "Mickey MauSe" because I sampled Deadmau5. EARMILK: What was the thinking behind the Mickey MauSe project? Why the 80s? Why not the 70s or 60s? Or even the 90s? Mickey Factz: I'm going to be very frank: I did the first track that I recorded and it wasn't even for this project.
Never one to shy away from the envelope-pushing and the avante garde, we spoke with Factz about this massive labor of love and what compelled him to do it. Clearly not the most conventional undertaking for a hip hop artist, the entire project emotively chronicles the life of a fictional graffiti artist named Mickey MauSe, who lives in the height of the 80's amidst the drugs, sex, music and art that tragically exploited many lives. Today Factz releases Mickey MauSe, a 17-song soundtrack set to Deadmau5 and Dangermouse samples that includes visual treatment for nine of the songs. Not surprisingly, XXL magazine included Factz in their "Freshmen Class of '09'" that year. In response to the hip hop he was hearing at the time, The Inspiration featured impressive guest appearances by artists like Lauryn Hill, Smoke DZA, Travie McCoy and Drake, and boasted production work by figures like 9th Wonder and Precize. Guided by a profound understanding for art, culture and social awareness, Factz established a place for himself in the hip hop world with the release of his 2008 mixtape, The Leak, Vol. Mickey Factz' mind works the way most artistic geniuses work: unconventionally, emotionally, and powerfully.
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