Mickey Factz Talks Teaching Rap at NYU, The Blog Era, Signing to Jive Records & More

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Oct 31, 2025

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Rap Music Education Hip-Hop History Lyricism and Flow Music Music Criticism Underground Hip Hop

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PC

Playboi Carti

So, we got the Playboy Cardi stuff. We got some NBA Young Boy stuff real quick. Yeah. Yeah. Playboy Cardi, what's up? So, when you uh are talking about his rapping Yeah. What is What do you take away from like uh I just like you and the obviously the kids probably love Cardi. The kids love Cardi.

F

Future

I think you could pull something from anybody, right? And I think that what you can pull from Playboy Cardi from that standpoint is melodic rapping, right? He does that at a high level. When you think about and and I say this respectfully, right? When you think about highlevel MC's like a Ransom or RJ Payne, Joel Ortiz, any of these, they can't do what Cardi do. They just can't do it, right? And that's like no, they can't do it because in their brains it's more about the lyrics and the writing a

E

Eminem

So you guys might be like, yo, today we're going to study Eminem. And and then we'll break down what he's doing, how he's doing it,

NJ

Nas Jones

Uh Rock Him, etc. Uh then you got the Jay Nas big, you know, the usual suspects, everybody here that's on the wall.

TB

The Notorious B.I.G.

Uh Rock Him, etc. Uh then you got the Jay Nas big, you know, the usual suspects, everybody here that's on the wall.