"It would be sick, if all these people were on the same album: ON TILT, Monk Madino, J-Lately, Dev Rambis, Eddie K, Brandon B, Ben Buck, L*Roneous, DJ MARZ, Richie Cunning, D. Vincent, Diamond Lung, Big Shawn, Bad Larry, Kayer, Rime Force Most Illin', Pudge, Squalid, Philo, Gus Cutty, Ritchy Flo, White Mic, Sacred Hoop, Monikape, DamCold$, S.T.A.T.I.K. Too Tough, Uncle Buck, Brycon, G-Pek, DJ Eons One, Yelir, Spex, Shag Diggler, Chaz One, Just Jay, VRSE Murphy, and Z-Man... Oh yeah, it drops tomorrow... THE TILTALATION," Mega Kut cryptically posted on their Facebook page late Monday night. Megakut Records are, of course, speaking of Bay Area Hip-Hop crew ON TILT's third proper release, THE TITALATION. ON TILT consists of emcees QM & VRSE Murphy, producer/multi-instrumentalist Luke Sick, and the group's own personal "Bob Power"— A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, The Roots, and D'Angelo super-producer— Richie Cunning. Much like many up-and-coming Hip-Hop groups I listen to and frequently write about, I believe, I first purchased ON TILT's DRINK FLOYD cassette on a 5-star recommendation from The Witzard's #1 Supporter & Walking Hip-Hop Encyclopedia, John "Jumbled" Bachman!


THE TITALATION is ON TILT's follow-up to last year's critically-acclaimed "purple" DRINK FLOYD cassette and is a heart-felt ode to early/mid-90's Bay Area Hip-Hop compilations. For THE TITALATION, ON TILT joined forces with similarly-minded compilation-loving Underground Hip-Hop imprints I Had An Accident (IHAA) & Luke Sick's own Megakut Records to collectively press up and release 130 limited edition cassette copies of their 23-track comp. ON TILT's THE TITALATION single-handedly collects over 40 artists hailing from The Bay Area all the way to Texas across a whopping 23 tracks with production throughout from Monikape, DamCold$, Too Tough, Uncle Buck, Mic Legg, Ben Buck, Brycon, DJ MARZ, G-Pek, Maclane, DJ Eons One, Yelir, Spex, Luke Sick, Pudge, Shag Diggler, Philo, Ritchy Flo, Chaz One, and ON TILT's own VRSE Murphy. It's a sun-soaked slice of 90's-influenced Boom-Bap that, fingers crossed, should help us get through these last few frigid months of "WINTER 365" here on The East Coast! ON TILT's THE TITALATION comp. is now available to purchase on limited edition cassette from I Had An Accident, Megakut Records, and QM's own personal Bandcamp page, while supplies last.

"[There's] an eclectic multi-city, multi-country Underground Rap scene [that's] clearly forming again with all these Independent Rap group tape releases that are sprouting up everywhere. Like-minded, short-run cassette labels like: Megakut Records, I Had An Accident, Solidarity Records, Icy Palms Records, Vulgar Records (France,) Nostalgia Analog, Routine Fly, Gurp City/Gurp City South, Hiss Records (Finland,) Audio Vile Recordings, Hand Solo Records (Toronto,) 77 Rise Recordings, Grilchy Party Records, Beat Tape Co-Op, FilthyBroke Recordings, Last Stab Records, Sublevel Epidemic, Griselda Records, Loretta Records, Star Bakery Records, Abolano Records, etc. and groups like Bloody Monk Consortium, Mic Legg, ON TILT, Grand Invincible, Ralphiie Reese, Rec League, Fab Deuce, Z-Man, White Mic, Rime Force Most Illin', Yole Boys, Diamond Lung, DJ Moves, The Watershed, Ghettosocks, Bruze Bruvas, S.F.S.M. (San Francisco Street Music,) DANKSLOB, D.F.S. L-Wood & 12manrambo, The Cloaks, Mummy Club, and Exalt The Anti making comps. of rare tapes from the past, etc. etc... along with Facebook Groups like DIGGIN' IN THE TAPES [have helped] turn this like-minded Underground Rap community to the days of old. And the goal of THE TILTILATION is to continue to foster and strengthen that scene anyway we can to get people to notice what we got goin' on and how fun and raw it all is."

- Luke Sick (ME g AK u t Records)