I remember being desperate for wiki content and when you would search his name on youtube this was one of the only things to listen to. Now look at him, his solo career is amazing.
For me...this was the highlight of the 2012 tumblr boom bap rap revival...New York had Bronson and Rocky taking over and making their way into pop culture...so guys like Joey and Wiki were coming out of high-school with that underground energy necessary for important cultural moments...
I dont think ill ever forget when this dropped because i used to skate to school everyday to this. And ratking was just always playing in my headphones. Glad wiki still makea music
This dude has unbelievable bars. True MC right here. Big ups to Wiki and Ratking! Bringing hip-hop back to basics BARS. If New York would wake up, they would see they have some of the most promising and compelling rappers out right now.
This is actually the best song I've ever heard in THE LONGEST time. I really don't remember ever being this "wow'd" by a hiphop song. I'm already obsessed with his style and rhymes. Goes to show how easily he got a new fan, haha.
yeah if there is anybody that exists where you can't say shit like "he sounds like ___" "he's a ___ ripoff" or whatever other bullshit, it's Wiki; yet tons of motherfuckers on here saying exactly that. his flow is just vicious, constantly coming at you, switches it up from one line to the next with, voice is different from most everything you hear (voice is deeper/better now, 2 years later, than in this video IMO)
I like his voice; to all you haters. Also, lyrics are original and clever. I'm a hip hop guru and this shit is top notch. This kid could hang with the best of um, no doubt in my mind.
BōtokuRand After listening to tracks 100 and canal i'm really looking forward to their album. I did like their previous EP but i did not love it. Comic and wikispeaks are the stand out tracks on the EP. But 100 and canal are in my opinion their best songs. And wiki is growing as a lyricist.
Wiki, please write more music like this. The stuff you do with Ratking isn't the same. You are a lyrical genius and could be SO big if you kept putting out music like this. Please, I need you, the hip-hop community needs you.
[Verse 1] I got ya eyes glued open You got a eye itch, you wanna blink What you think? That ain't a wise pick That's why my friends only got like three guys left Ends only got like three five cents You wanna blow my head off? Be my guest Breathe out my soul, like in the cold you can see my breath On some next shit, you just see my death Take the train everyday it's like a break from the pain Subway cars keep my heart at bay Single ride paid, they start to raise I go under, I gotta tell you I ain't got the change I got a boy play ball, he go hard in the paint I got another that write, he go hard with the paint All this shit got me startin' to think, startin' to drink Gulp, gulp, startin' to sink A drunk mutt, that's my pedigree, it's meant to be Hennessy's the only thing that's friendly to me I'm straight New York, what a lot of y'all pretending to be Ya'll cats will feel the cuts eventually Smoke the blunts consecutively Fuck dogs disrespecting to me Explain the words so we can let it just be Yeah baby, let it just be I let the evil enter my soul to get that legal tender To get that tender illegal booty, seeing splendor Too much shit on my mind, no time for Jesus' agenda Beating my dick's the only way of beating my temper I just leave it to pleasure to relieve all my pressure I'm just a shitty toy, can't put the pieces together Check, check, just a shitty toy [Hook] Niggas gotta peep the way I speak I hit my peak, hittin' L's 'til I sleep Sippin' 40's 'til shorties forget that Wiki's sweet Kicked out the crib, roam the city streets Think I'm pretty weak cause I've seen some shitty weeks It's about time Wiki speaks It's about time Wiki freaks [Verse 2] I'm just tryin' to spit, can I, can I, can I? Damn I feel like Jay-Z in '96 Man I feel like ODB in '93 Am I even an '04 Ye? Girlies ain't my forte, sip 40s for days All day find me walkin' down Broadway Broads hate on my broad ways Everything I do they call fake Everything I do dope they call fate Pause, wait, chill Me, myself, and I go in on everything that the God makes But God's fake, I gotta say I caught a break If hell was real, I'd be on my way I don't bag bitches, I drag bitches and bag critics Tie 'em up and then spit it Smack any piglet that gives me a damn ticket Get it? Seen wreckin' every seen section's C section Any bitch that seems pregnant Just a teen getting Some shit out his head and Some shit out his chest And his face, ugh, pop pimples Clumsy kid, drop cymbals Drop symbols every time I got a pencil Every time I rock simple, sling shot's to cops' temple Cop temple's off the devil Sold my soul, at least I've still got the mental [Hook] [Verse 3] Manhattan Africans' with Gucci, kufis matchin' Truly rappin' to ruggishly bootie's Giuli's baggin' Clean up the city? Need to clean up Wiki's act then Clean up Wiki's ass and I'll let then you catch him That shit ain't hapennin', nah Motherfucker do you realize what a craftin'...fuck it Massacre the public, ain't a master of the subject But I go in hard though, I ain't flaccid when I'm fuckin' Raw, I ain't maskin' up the munchkin MSG Carmelo, now we dappin' when he dunkin' MSG, that's the shit that they package in my dumplings Said I'm stuck in New York, stuck rappin' in a dungeon Well I'm really lovin' all the action in this dungeon Ain't leavin' 'til I'm runnin' every faction of this dungeon Five boroughs my boroughs, laughin' at assumptions Feel like four or five 'bout to get assed out in corruption Gettin' paid, but can't get me nothin' except to get my nut in There ain't no way in hell that a paper can get me blunted Keep budgin', keep pushin' Pencils and pennies down under my cushion, while niggas keep lookin' Over my head, they sure ain't heard the shit that I said I go to bed thinkin' about the shit that I dread Wake up sticky, at least I didn't shit in my bed Wiki speaks though Wiki sleeps, I flipped it instead [Hook]
Ratking has an EP man, besides that I don't know, they haven't been around too long, I'm sure they're in the process of making some new shit. These dudes are raw as fuck right?? I'd rather wait for good hip hop and sick lyricism than get some bullshit right away. I'm hopin to be blown away with the next release. Just the 'freestyle' videos of him on youtube are raw and holdin me over. If anyone has heard any news about a release I'd love to know though.
this shit has been in regular rotation for me for ten years. absolute classic. hip hop hall of fame type shit
Absolute all time classic fr
Same here!!! Ten fucking years just flew by and I’m still bumping this and Snow Beach
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no doubt, i been reppin this shit a decade+. still better than most shit i hear now adays
Sameee
I remember being desperate for wiki content and when you would search his name on youtube this was one of the only things to listen to. Now look at him, his solo career is amazing.
First heard his verse on that earl sweatshirt album and thought to myself how fucking infatuated his flow made me. Glad he never slowed down
@@cheese1445 wiki is NY underground king! facts
Fr.
For me...this was the highlight of the 2012 tumblr boom bap rap revival...New York had Bronson and Rocky taking over and making their way into pop culture...so guys like Joey and Wiki were coming out of high-school with that underground energy necessary for important cultural moments...
real!
Thumbs up if you known this nigga before he featured with earl
***** Thumbs up if you get the shits every time you eat Taco Bell
I heard him featured on this Antwon track Metro Nome. Shit was dope af
Anthony Meisner I heard this when this video first dropped. Im cool
Anthony Meisner "THUMBS UP"
im not gonna lie I found out about him because of AM/Radio
I dont think ill ever forget when this dropped because i used to skate to school everyday to this. And ratking was just always playing in my headphones. Glad wiki still makea music
Man I feel this. I was a freshman in college. Still skatin and taggin on my way to class
hes my goat
Yes, verr nice, he makea da music yes!
Anybody here in 2021 for this 🔥🔥🤷🏾♂️
How can you deny how hard this is??
You can't.
Who still bumping in 2020
2021**
Just bumped this now in 2022. Still amazing.
Just discovered this in 2023 and I’m blown away
Listening this 2024
came back in 2024 my guy
This is one of the greatest flows of all time. I still dont think Wiki has topped this song.
this was when he first showed us what he has. still haven't heard a new rapper with a more original flow than this.
xxxtentacion - vice city
If it wasnt for eminem, he wouldnt have this flow
Check out Pesto 😉
I think he topped this w eggs
Who is still bumping this in 2019?
Speakers in 2020 still screaming this shit at the top of their mechanical lungs
in 2020 still looking like I smelt some shit. god he eats this beat up.
Bumping it right now in 2020 while illustrating t-shirt designs
Bumping it while doing some overdue homework lol. vibes to yall
2020
can definitely see wiki in a harmony korine/ larry clark film
Chris Walker I agree! Definitely
This track bring back that essence. The beat gives me chills and the bars are menacing. This shit makes me realize that hip hop is not dead. .
this is so kids 1995
Idk how this isn’t more out there. This shit changed my love for the genre big time when I first heard it.
This joint was hype when it came out. But is over 10 years old now. Wiks new projects are fire
Crazy how I just Found Wiki and he’s been killing it for a decade
Seeing wiki support earl sweatshirt in brum was the one of my favourite concerts ever, my man brought energyyyyy
THIS SONG/VISUAL CHANGED ALL THEIR LIVES. RARELY HEAR HIM ACKNOWLEDGE THIS SONG THOUGH.
This dude has unbelievable bars. True MC right here. Big ups to Wiki and Ratking! Bringing hip-hop back to basics BARS. If New York would wake up, they would see they have some of the most promising and compelling rappers out right now.
RIP Wiki's Teeth
2021 anyone? first heard this 012, still find myself coming back
I want a documentary: Wiki the legend of the missing tooth
+Travis Turner i laughed hard
Hahahahahahhaa
He got punched in the face. Documentary done.
Back when Wiki had teeth
Yeah he looks so different, now he just looks like a hobo still makes kickass music tho
Ezrah Bankhead what happened to his teeth??
Shane Marlowe He got punched
Bug4566 Are you serious or just making a joke?
No he legit got punched
prolly my favorite video ever.
2024? anybody
It’s 2021 and I still give this a spin 🔥🔥
I used to listen to this 35 times a day everyday loool
one of the best new ny rappers, he's rappin' harlem
"Im just trynna spit like jay z in 96"
Ever since he lost his teeth all he does is spit
Yooooo
Here because I typed in Wikipedia shortened version. Ran into some dope shit!
both versions of the track is dope but this og version has a more raw sound
dead ass had to download this version on my phone cuz the spotify track don't sound like this
Eddy Peralta ghhj
True shit and compare the endings in the different productions....I love hak but this version easily slays.
Crazy how this is over 10 yrs old already. And Wik has gotten better dropping amazing heat
"Think I'm pretty weak cause I seen some shitty weeks? It's about time wiki speaks, it's about time wiki freaks"
That hook just goes hard...
Still bumping in 2019!🔥
Wiki really spoke
we have a winner. This is so heavy on slang most niggas outside of NY won't understand what he's spitting.
2020 we here 🔥🔥
Authentic film making, and cultural document of the real New York. Keep it up Ratking.
Still my favorite Wiki song, just so crazy
The amount of times I watched this when it came out is insane lol, always messed with how the video is directed 🔥
For fuck's sake, this is nearly 10 years old....where the hell does time go????
First listened to this 5 years ago still 🔥🔥🔥
This is actually the best song I've ever heard in THE LONGEST time. I really don't remember ever being this "wow'd" by a hiphop song. I'm already obsessed with his style and rhymes. Goes to show how easily he got a new fan, haha.
Still bumping this in 2021!!!!
DOoooPE
CraneoMedia representando
Make me feel like I'm 13 again. Real vibes
How did this just pop up in my recommended? Fml this is gold
Damn bro forreal.. beyond late lolol
Wiki had that Talib Kweli-Eminem flow back then
Not every day you come across stuff this good! Found this guy via the recent XL release. Top notch in every regard... Phew!
He sounds like Wiki
yeah if there is anybody that exists where you can't say shit like "he sounds like ___" "he's a ___ ripoff" or whatever other bullshit, it's Wiki; yet tons of motherfuckers on here saying exactly that. his flow is just vicious, constantly coming at you, switches it up from one line to the next with, voice is different from most everything you hear (voice is deeper/better now, 2 years later, than in this video IMO)
YOU WANNA BLOW MY HEAD AAWWWFF
2023 still jammin this
Remember seeing wiki on a festival in germany like 5 years ago, only about 20 people came to the stage :(
same Poland but about ~8 years ago
Just the echo spanish music in the background at the beginning is amazing to me.
wheres wiki's north face endorsement
2k21 'n' still rockin' this
Flows so cold you could see my breath. Wiki been a genius.
this song gets me through a lot of shit in life man, thanks wiki
i personally think this is probably one of the best cats coming out of new york beside pro era and bronson.
and ka, and roc marciano, and homeboy sandman
slykoDFO glad you know homeboy sandman. He needs more credit
Benjo is too, all of Nage actually
SickestRap Been watching Nage for a wile couldn't agree less
matter of opinion. thank you for you disrespect tho.
ITS ABOUT TIME WIKI SPEAKS
Still flying this flag.
I like his voice; to all you haters. Also, lyrics are original and clever. I'm a hip hop guru and this shit is top notch. This kid could hang with the best of um, no doubt in my mind.
no doubt
His new album is finna be dope, I feeeel it.
BōtokuRand After listening to tracks 100 and canal i'm really looking forward to their album. I did like their previous EP but i did not love it. Comic and wikispeaks are the stand out tracks on the EP. But 100 and canal are in my opinion their best songs. And wiki is growing as a lyricist.
soulaiman agalf lol I loved everything except comic lool & Piece of Shit & This Version of WikiSpeaks were standout IMO
this nigga voice annoying as fuck. his lyrics mediocre
Hope this cat links up with Joey Bad.
This cat sound like early Talib, shit is dope.
Agree with the early Talib. Also hear some Yelawolf. Maybe a lil young Ghostface.
Throw back!! Love this song
Wiki, please write more music like this. The stuff you do with Ratking isn't the same. You are a lyrical genius and could be SO big if you kept putting out music like this. Please, I need you, the hip-hop community needs you.
He did exactly this.
Just heard this for the first time
still so GOOD
Man this song still fye I can’t believe this gem is so hidden Wiki really snapped in this
Fucccckkkkk bring !e back to this time please lol damn time flies
I brought me here. This Track is BEAST.
this is fuckin fresh. killer rhymes and flow
forever a favorite. classic when i first heard this in 2012
Still here for this flow...I get goosebumps when the beat drops.
It's being a more of a true fan if you knew about him before earl, but if earl got you into wiki that some tight shit. Like to keep the fans coming.
[Verse 1]
I got ya eyes glued open
You got a eye itch, you wanna blink
What you think? That ain't a wise pick
That's why my friends only got like three guys left
Ends only got like three five cents
You wanna blow my head off? Be my guest
Breathe out my soul, like in the cold you can see my breath
On some next shit, you just see my death
Take the train everyday it's like a break from the pain
Subway cars keep my heart at bay
Single ride paid, they start to raise
I go under, I gotta tell you I ain't got the change
I got a boy play ball, he go hard in the paint
I got another that write, he go hard with the paint
All this shit got me startin' to think, startin' to drink
Gulp, gulp, startin' to sink
A drunk mutt, that's my pedigree, it's meant to be
Hennessy's the only thing that's friendly to me
I'm straight New York, what a lot of y'all pretending to be
Ya'll cats will feel the cuts eventually
Smoke the blunts consecutively
Fuck dogs disrespecting to me
Explain the words so we can let it just be
Yeah baby, let it just be
I let the evil enter my soul to get that legal tender
To get that tender illegal booty, seeing splendor
Too much shit on my mind, no time for Jesus' agenda
Beating my dick's the only way of beating my temper
I just leave it to pleasure to relieve all my pressure
I'm just a shitty toy, can't put the pieces together
Check, check, just a shitty toy
[Hook]
Niggas gotta peep the way I speak
I hit my peak, hittin' L's 'til I sleep
Sippin' 40's 'til shorties forget that Wiki's sweet
Kicked out the crib, roam the city streets
Think I'm pretty weak cause I've seen some shitty weeks
It's about time Wiki speaks
It's about time Wiki freaks
[Verse 2]
I'm just tryin' to spit, can I, can I, can I?
Damn I feel like Jay-Z in '96
Man I feel like ODB in '93
Am I even an '04 Ye?
Girlies ain't my forte, sip 40s for days
All day find me walkin' down Broadway
Broads hate on my broad ways
Everything I do they call fake
Everything I do dope they call fate
Pause, wait, chill
Me, myself, and I go in on everything that the God makes
But God's fake, I gotta say
I caught a break
If hell was real, I'd be on my way
I don't bag bitches, I drag bitches and bag critics
Tie 'em up and then spit it
Smack any piglet that gives me a damn ticket
Get it?
Seen wreckin' every seen section's C section
Any bitch that seems pregnant
Just a teen getting
Some shit out his head and
Some shit out his chest
And his face, ugh, pop pimples
Clumsy kid, drop cymbals
Drop symbols every time I got a pencil
Every time I rock simple, sling shot's to cops' temple
Cop temple's off the devil
Sold my soul, at least I've still got the mental
[Hook]
[Verse 3]
Manhattan
Africans' with Gucci, kufis matchin'
Truly rappin' to ruggishly bootie's Giuli's baggin'
Clean up the city? Need to clean up Wiki's act then
Clean up Wiki's ass and I'll let then you catch him
That shit ain't hapennin', nah
Motherfucker do you realize what a craftin'...fuck it
Massacre the public, ain't a master of the subject
But I go in hard though, I ain't flaccid when I'm fuckin'
Raw, I ain't maskin' up the munchkin
MSG Carmelo, now we dappin' when he dunkin'
MSG, that's the shit that they package in my dumplings
Said I'm stuck in New York, stuck rappin' in a dungeon
Well I'm really lovin' all the action in this dungeon
Ain't leavin' 'til I'm runnin' every faction of this dungeon
Five boroughs my boroughs, laughin' at assumptions
Feel like four or five 'bout to get assed out in corruption
Gettin' paid, but can't get me nothin' except to get my nut in
There ain't no way in hell that a paper can get me blunted
Keep budgin', keep pushin'
Pencils and pennies down under my cushion, while niggas keep lookin'
Over my head, they sure ain't heard the shit that I said
I go to bed thinkin' about the shit that I dread
Wake up sticky, at least I didn't shit in my bed
Wiki speaks though Wiki sleeps, I flipped it instead
[Hook]
How to gain lifelong fans with one track
2020 Still Bumping
Such a fuckin tenacious flow
reminds me of oringinal yak ballz shit shouts to anyone who knows what i'm talkin about WM/CC
Weathermen for life!! :D That shit was sick
hell yeah man
Nah
Hahaha wooord
Became a huge fan
This is a classic.
this shit is a classic already really
I want a beat like this tho
used to listen to this on the way to skool evryday. thankyou.
The most underground song I've ever heard!🔥🔥🔥
Does anybody know what kind of north face jacket he's wearing?
ITS THAT 700 FILL
Beautiful, anybody know what camera was used?
bump
Chris Harold my peepee. they kept holding it
You physically can't stop nodding and bopping to this tune
after seeing this dude kill it with RATKIIIIIIIING! here in MIA in November with Trash Talk I've got eternal respect for my dude.
Real rap
What's the sample at the end??
Love this Wiki, keep doing your thing.
This recording is so much better than the album version… Wonder why it didn’t make the cut.
Wtf this is unbelievable
his flow reminds me
of Early Cage Kennylz the wormking
Yeeess
peep his verse in the middle of letter racer's Market video. He really sounds like cage there
His name is Wiki, his group is RATKING.
There is something about a dude that just raps...just raps his fucking ass off. He postures like an emcee, and goes hard.
That shit is refreshing
The Danny Brown influence is there
I Woulda Said Eminem
***** a lil of both
How come this guy hasnt dropped anything else!?
Ratking has an EP man, besides that I don't know, they haven't been around too long, I'm sure they're in the process of making some new shit. These dudes are raw as fuck right?? I'd rather wait for good hip hop and sick lyricism than get some bullshit right away. I'm hopin to be blown away with the next release. Just the 'freestyle' videos of him on youtube are raw and holdin me over. If anyone has heard any news about a release I'd love to know though.
Ryan Thill They released 2 new tracks 100 and canal they are in my opinion their best songs.
Wiki93 by RATKING. I chilled with a lot of these guys in high school, gotta support the movement
Still playing this joint in 2020!