Copywrite "COMBUSTION SPONTANEOUS 78° 1997 ALL FREESTYLE ALBUM" [ALBUM]

 

This isn't an album in the conventional sense — it's a primary source document. Copywrite, born in 1978 in Columbus, Ohio, is a core member of the MHz collective alongside Camu Tao and Tage Proto, and later an Eastern Conference affiliate who built his reputation next to RJD2. At 19 years old, he sat down with a Gemini DJ Sampler, freestyled 23 tracks with no preparation, and recorded the whole thing directly to cassette tape in one take. That recording is now publicly available for the first time. The historical weight is real: in 1997, Copywrite had no name, MHz was barely forming, and Columbus, Ohio wasn't on the rap map. This cassette is the desk before everything — raw, spontaneous, and named after its own temperature. Titles like "The Rebel," "Danny Devito," "Gianni Versace," and "Hey Copy" show an MC with a fully formed visual language and no fear of strange references. "MHz Crew Interlude" locks the tape firmly into Columbus crew history. Nothing was mastered, nothing was edited, nothing was assembled after the fact. For crate diggers and historians, that makes it doubly relevant: not archival polish, but a genuine raw signal from the source.