The New York rap collective Ratking, (WARNING: Only try to image search their Google-unfriendly name if you’re down with vomming chunks for days) fresh from getting signed to XL, jump on King Krule’s “Octopus”, a dreamy jazz inflected track released earlier in the year by the UK producer. Krule’s track provides a pretty backdrop for the rappers to muse over, as they provide the remix to this AA-sided single for Rinse.
I mean, it isn’t establishing them as groundbreaking hellraisers, so all the comparisons by journalists as a “young OF” are lazy bullshit. But they are putting out music in what is pretty much the best place on earth to be doing rap in the world right now, so y’know, let’s just wait to see what comes next.
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RATKING (re?!)release the Wiki93 EP in November via XL.
