Ratarue

Ratarue did his first show in 1993 at the Victory Grill in East Austin, during the Golden Era of Hip Hop. He never stopped pushing the envelope, in that he kept writing and collaborating, mostly with his friend Azatat. Back in 2009 he released a collaboration with Cell, who worked closely, at the time, with Azatat. The project Odd Augmentation Inc. was released do to the efforts and well received by press and the local Austin Hip Hop scene but the project was later pulled from digital and physical distribution, due to personal health. After a few years of rehabilitation and healing in which time was focused on learning music production theory, Odd Augmentation Inc. and the second album Good Problems was released. Shortly after Ratarue collaborated with Washington D.C. staple Ardamus for the single Finding Cold In The Rain and later appeared on Ardamus album Psychedelic Cowboy $hit. Ratarue teamed up with the Jazz Hip Hop band the ATXFlowdown, to release the album That Greater Good Good, which debuted on Dec 20th, 2018. Ratarue took his experience with the ATX Flowdown with addition advice from his Father, a Christian Hawaiian Musician, to write his own music. After several years of independent study, Ratarue released his first self produced non sampled based LP called Legend of the Gatling. Legend of the Gatling Tongue was 3 years in the making. Ratarue set out on a mini tour, starting in Austin, TX, his home city, opening for Ardamus in Washington D.C. and ending the promo campaign in NY, for the Brooklyn Wild Life Festival. It was Ratarue’s first in NY. Building on his unique production and approach similar to his album Legend of the Gatling Tongue, Ratarue later release Spent Blooms. Spent Blooms was well received in Austin, TX. Legend of the Gatling Tongue and Spent Blooms were both recorded to 2 inch tape. Recently, Ratarue has released Steam featuring Steph Sharky Shultz and Graffiti Artist Sloke One. Ratarue used similar production technics, building off of the songs from Legend of the Gatling Tongue and Spent Blooms, implementing a 4 track cassette multi track recorded to add space and saturation to the instrumental stems. Ratarue, although independent, has recently signed a deal with a record sync company.