This past Friday, Copywrite released a free album through Man Bites Dog Records. So with our late pass in hand, we’d like to share it with those that aren’t already aware. The title, a play on The Beatles’ classic Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Bang, is Copy’s way of “paying homage to one of [his] favorite groups and albums of all time.” Read up on the inspiration behind the project below then hit the jump to stream/download.

Feeling burnt out on hip-hop after releasing two albums in the past year, Copy was craving something different. He went on a Beatles and Beach Boys binge, and one day, while listening to Sgt. Pepper’s, he recounts, “I had the headphone jack halfway in and it played only the speaker with the music and not the vocals.” Immediately struck by the unorthodox time signatures, Copy was excited by the challenge of it. “I love rapping complex and crazy, but I never really have the platform for that,” says Copy, “It was perfect.”

Directed by Snow Rowe.

Slug joins Copywrite over some RJD2 production for the latest visual from MHz Legacy’s self-titled debut; which is available now.

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The collective of Copywrite, Tage Future, Jakki Da Motamouth, Camu Tao and RJD2 released their self-titled debut album last year, and now you can enjoy visuals from Copywrite’s Marco Polo-produced banger off of it.

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Copywrite and Tage rock over some RJD2 production for the latest visual from MHz Legacy’s self-titled debut. Also, for all the up-and-coming producers out there… be sure to check out the remix contest we’re throwing for the Blu-assisted “Yellow + Blue”.

Copywrite, El-P, Camu Tao, Tage Future, Cannibal Ox, Jakki Da Motamouth and Yak Ballz. Remember that line-up? Well, to celebrate the release of MHz Legacy’s self-titled debut album, they’ve let loose this vaulted track for the masses. Says Copywrite…

“Back in 2001, 2002, Camu and I where living in Middletown, New York. Cage lived there too, which is why I moved out there. We where supposed to go on a tour with all of the Eastern Conference Records artists, but Mad Skillz pulled out to vacation, so the tour fell through. Cage wasn’t too fond of Camu back then but ‘Mu expressed to me how bad he wanted to go to pursue music with me and I told him to come along. In those days, we would always drive my Ford Explorer from Middletown to Manhattan to record at DJ Mighty Mi’s spot on Lexington, and then we’d go visit El-P in Brooklyn and crash for several nights at a time. Vast Aire and Vordul Mega, of Cannibal Ox, had their own room downstairs and El’s studio was right next door, so there was always music going on.”

“This song was recorded around the time I was working on my debut album, The High Exhaulted, and Cannibal Ox was working on their album, The Cold Vein. It was a rare occasion to have Tage Future, Camu Tao, Jakki Da Motamouth, Cage, Cannibal Ox, El-P, and myself all in the same room at once, so I told them we needed to seize the moment and record something. El started pulling up beats and we all instantly agreed on this one. The beat played and we wrote – whoever had their verse first hit the mic booth, which, at that time, was El-P’s closet, and the rest is history. Camu was probably smokin’ a blunt with Vordul, so neither of them is on the song; I don’t know why El didn’t drop a verse. Back then we titled it “The Only Weathermen Song,” since it was so tough to get all of us together at the same time.”

Enjoy.

Copywrite assists fellow Ohio native (singer/producer) D1 on track five from his Political Love Story EP. The project, which shares a story of a teenager inspired to enlist in the military after the attacks on September 11th, is available after the jump.

To celebrate the release of MHz Legacy, the Ohio collective drops “Yellow + Blue” for the fans (or those still needing an extra push to support). Kick starting the Surock-produced cut, Blu comes out swinging with Copywrite and Tage Future cleaning up.

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The big homie Slug joins Copywrite over some RJD2 production for the latest single release off the upcoming MHz Legacy album, dropping October 30th via Man Bites Dog Recrods.

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We got some behind-the-scenes footage last week. Now we get the official video off RJD2, Copywrite, Camu Tao (RIP), Jakki Da Motamouth and Tage Future’s upcoming album, MHz Legacy, due out October 30th.

On October 30th, the Megahertz (Copywrite, RJD2, Jakki Da Motamouth and Tage Future) will be dropping off their first project as a crew in 11 years. On top of some unreleased verses from Camu Tao (R.I.P.), the self-titled project will also feature Slug (of Atmosphere), Blu, Danny Brown, Ill Bill, Slaine and Oh No. With production coming from RJD2, Harry Fraud, Marco Polo, Stu Bangas, !llmind and more. Hit the jump for the tracklisting.

Now that their collaborative album Respect Game Or Expect Flames is available (both digitally and physically), Casual and J Rawls unleash an Ohio-to-Oakland posse cut that features the likes of Copywrite, Phesto, Tage, Tajai, Jakki Da Motamouth and Opio.

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Latest visual from Copywrite’s God Save the King (Proper English Version), which is available now on iTunes.

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