RATKING

Ratking are a wild hip-hop collective out of New York who came onto the scene in 2012. Original members Patrick "Wiki" Morales, MC Hak, Sporting Life, and Ramon were mostly in their late teens in 2011 as chaotic hip-hop tracks credited to Wiki were issued from their Harlem base. These bedroom laptop productions came from Sporting Life and Ramon's apartment, and went right to video-sharing sites, where a slow but steady group of fans enjoyed grimy, compressed productions and Hak and Wiki's strange cut-up rhymes. In 2012 they were signed by the XL Records imprint Hot Charity, with their debut EP for the label, Wiki93, landing in November. ~ David Jeffries