So It Goes (Ratking album)


So It Goes is the debut studio album by New York City hip hop group Ratking, which consisted at the time rappers Wiki and Hak, and rapper-producer Sporting Life. It was released on April 8, 2014 by HXC Recordings. It was entirely engineered by Young Guru. The album's title was inspired by Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The album features collaborations with King Krule, Salomon Faye, and Wavy Spice. The album reached #13 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums, #38 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and #21 on Rap Albums.

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, So It Goes received an average score of 78 based on 19 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews."
Kyle Kramer of Pitchfork said: "There's a pulsing, lived-in energy to So It Goes that captures what New York feels like and pushes at the boundaries of lyrically-driven rap."
Critic Ben Ratliff ranked So It Goes at number 5 on his "Top 10 Albums of 2014" list for The New York Times.

Track listing

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