RATKING is a Harlem, New York rap trio signed to Letter Racer consisting of emcees Wiki and Hak and producer Sporting Life. In June of 2016, Hak left the group and was replaced by California rapper Antwon. Their name comes from the term “rat king,” a collection of rats whose tails have become intertwined.

Sporting Life’s production for the group is characterized by heavy bass rhythms and trap-flavored drums. On their first full-length album So It Goes, Wiki’s high-range, intricate rapping works in tandem with Hak’s melodic and creative flows.

In an interview with Complex, Sporting Life spoke about the group’s dynamic:

All our individual goals that we’re trying to achieve—I’m trying to make this track that’s better than this, and Hak’s trying to write something from his perspective that gets a certain feeling across, and Wik is just trying to write the illest verse—when that comes together, through the system we’ve set up playing it live, that’s gonna render something we don’t really have control of.