So It Goes (Ratking album)

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So It Goes
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Studio album by
Ratking
ReleasedApril 8, 2014
Recorded2013−14
Genre
Length51:40
Label
Producer
Ratking chronology
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(2012)		So It Goes
(2014)		 700-Fill
(2015)
Singles from So It Goes
  1. "Canal"
    Released: January 23, 2014
  2. "So Sick Stories"
    Released: March 18, 2014
  3. "So It Goes"
    Released: September 3, 2014
  4. "Snow Beach"
    Released: January 14, 2015

So It Goes is the only studio album by New York City hip hop group Ratking, which consisted of rappers Wiki and Hak, and producer Sporting Life. It was released on April 8, 2014 by HXC Recordings. It was entirely engineered by Young Guru. [2] The album's title was inspired by Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five . [3] [4] The album features collaborations with King Krule, Salomon Faye, and Wavy Spice. [5] The album reached #13 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums, [6] #38 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, [7] and #21 on Rap Albums. [8]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.2/10 [9]
Metacritic 78/100 [10]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Exclaim! 8/10 [12]
Financial Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [13]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [15]
NME 7/10 [16]
Pitchfork 7.5/10 [17]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [18]
Spin 8/10 [19]
Uncut 8/10 [20]

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". [10]

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." [17] So It Goes was later placed at number 200 on Pitchfork's "The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s" list. [21]

Critic Ben Ratliff ranked So It Goes at number 5 on his "Top 10 Albums of 2014" list for The New York Times . [22]

The album was touted as the best album of 2014 by Vice. [23]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."*"
3:57
2."Canal"
  • Adiele
  • Lewis
  • Morales
Sporting Life3:03
3."Snow Beach"
  • Adiele
  • Lewis
  • Morales
  • Sporting Life
  • Isaiah Barr
6:42
4."So Sick Stories" (featuring King Krule)
4:42
5."Remove Ya"
Sporting Life3:08
6."Eat"
  • Adiele
  • Lewis
  • Morales
  • Sporting Life
  • DJ Dog Dick [a]
3:52
7."So It Goes"
  • Adiele
  • Lewis
  • Morales
Sporting Life5:32
8."Puerto Rican Judo" (featuring Wavy Spice)
Sporting Life4:34
9."Protein"
  • Adiele
  • Lewis
  • Morales
  • Sporting Life
  • DJ Dog Dick [a]
4:53
10."Bug Fights"
  • Adiele
  • Lewis
  • Morales
Sporting Life3:11
11."Take" / "Cocoa '88" (featuring Salomon Faye and DJ Dog Dick)
  • Sporting Life
  • DJ Dog Dick [a]
7:53
Notes
Sample credits

Charts

ChartPeak
position
Heatseekers Albums [6] 13
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums [7] 38
Rap Albums [8] 21

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