Editor’s Note: Mickey Factz discusses what it was like to get his first post on Nah Right and almost never get a second one.

“Where should I begin, start from the end…”

- Mickey Factz, Flyin Balloons – 1:00 A.M. and Rising Nahright Mixtape

Nahright. To me, that site was the end all, be all for an upcoming artist. It was like getting on a Clue Tape in 98 for me. I’ll never forget first hearing about the site. I was at Jive Records, talking to an A&R rep. He asked if I had ever been on that site, I said no. I then went there and felt like I should have been on that site. My second mix-tape, Flashback Vol. 1 came out in July 2007. We wanted it on the site. We sent it to Eskay, to no avail.

We proceeded to send song after song and it never got posted. I began to get frustrated. Started devising different plans. I recorded a Success freestyle with Donny Goines cause he was on Nahright so much. I was like, since I know Donny, maybe this will segue into being posted. Negative. Didn’t get posted. Then, I started hitting up every blog asking them. 2dopeboyz, DifferentKitchen, etc. Nothing. I even sent my press kit. NOPE!

I then gave up. Once you give up, thats when things begin to happen. I recorded a song that meant a lot to me. It was about Sean Bell. That shooting was horrendous and I felt as an artist I had to speak my mind. I did it not to get on any blogs. I actually never blasted the record to some people’s surprise. I sent it to Ian over at Different Kitchen and put it on my Myspace…

For some reason, Eskay got his hands on it and posted it. His reasoning for doing it because it was the appropriate to the timing of what was happening and it was “Independent’s Day.”

I remember I was on my way out of my house when my manager called me like “Yo, go to your computer screen right now.” I ran back upstairs and stayed inside for about a hour. Just reading the comments and laughing. I thought it was funny how they didn’t comment on how good the song was but how wack I was. Even Eskay joined in on the fun…

So since that happened, I was like YEEEEA! Now Eskay is gonna post allll of my stuff from here on out… NOPE!!! He continued to deny me access to Nahright. Haha. Pardon me I had to laugh at that. Out of alllllllll the things Eskay has posted regarding Mickey Factz. I realllly wish he would have posted Heaven’s Fallout which, to some people, is my best project to date.

The next post that got put up was my EPK and that was like 5 months later, lol. Again, we didn’t send that to him. He just randomly posted it. We were still sending him things and he wouldn’t put it up. I was like in the beginning stages of my leak series and this is when the term Hipster Rap was starting to become the “fad”. I had linked up with Naledge from Kidz in the Hall to record the record. We did it and it was dope. I had a line in there saying “I’m nice, so should I be classified as hipster rap? nah, right?” That line right there was like a shot at Eskay and he posted it. It was the first joint that went up. The comment section, which I absolutely love to death, bludgeoned me verbally. There was an argument about Hipster rap over that song for 2, to maybe 3, days.

The following week in my next leak, I then shouted Eskay out saying “My buzz off the internet, I got Eskay’s in a text, different kitch, every set” haha… Just showing love to him.

The moral of this story is, you can change your mind about anybody or anything once you give it a chance. I thought I would never ever be posted on that site. I saw Eskay go from making fun of me tons of times to then seeing him defend me in Posts, vigorously. I’m glad I got a chance to meet him at SXSW and just vibe with him. One of the realest people I know and I have nothing but love for him, Nation and Dre.

Mickey is prepping the release of his first single that will put up for sale. Keep up with Mickey Factz on Twitter or on his GFCny blog.