I am what I am.’ It can be light, too,” Williams, the producer, explains. You could say ‘I’m ratchet’ to say ‘I’m real. It’s whatever, bout it, etc.”īut the popularity of the song, and the adoption of ratchet by other, bigger names in the business - especially as rappers from the “Dirty South,” like Lil Wayne, T.I., and Juicy J came into vogue in the later 2000s - meant the definition of the word could not stay in the hands of Lava House Records. In the liner notes of the CD, Phunk Dawg wrote a definition of ratchet: “n., pron., v, adv., 1. This version, and the associated dance, caught on and Mandigo’s Lava House Records began making a name for itself. In 2004, Earl Williams, a producer known as Phunk Dawg, recorded a new version of the song, featuring the better-known Lil Boosie (currently incarcerated), from Baton Rouge, as well as Mandigo and another Shreveport rapper named Untamed Mayne. “Mandigo introduced me to the word, He got it from his grandmother,” remembers Angela Nichols, who goes by Angie Locc and rapped on the track. And some of that particularity gets lost when it travels.” The first appearance of ratchet in a published song was in 1999, when Anthony Mandigo released “Do the Ratchet” on his Ratchet Fight in the Ghetto album. Brittney Cooper, a co-founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective. “You talk to working class black people ,” says Dr. Ratchet can be traced back to the neighborhood of Cedar Grove in Shreveport, Louisiana. “Putting a weave in the microwave just to curl it, that’s ratchet.” “Ratchet is basically a lack of home training - being out in public and acting like you don’t have any sense,” Philip Houston told the Cut. In it, the Atlanta brothers pretend to be ratchet women describing their ilk: They carry outdated flip phones, go clubbing while pregnant, and try to punch other women in the face. And in March of 2012, Nicki Minaj dropped “ Right By My Side,” with Chris Brown, in which she lamented that “all them bitches is ratchet.” At the same time, the “ Ratchet Girl Anthem,” a parody track recorded by Philip and Emmanuel Houston, collected tens of millions of Youtube hits. In his September single “ Bandz a Make Her Dance,” Juicy J boasts of his inability to refuse the advances of “ratchet” women. LL Cool J released a single named “ Ratchet” last November, using the word as an adjective to describe a woman who is only after a man’s money.
One of Beyoncé’s skills is trend-spotting, and indeed ratchet has been all over popular culture in the past year.
Fueling the fires were comments Azealia Banks made to MTV Brazil that she and Lady Gaga were working on a song called “Ratchet.” Because Lady Gaga had posted a picture with earrings similar to those in the Beyoncé photograph in September, it was thought that the two megastars, and perhaps Banks, too, could be working on a follow-up to their hit single “Telephone.” Eventually, Beyoncé’s representative told the Cut: “There is no confirmation on any song titles.” Last December, when Beyoncé posted a picture on Instagram wearing doorknocker earrings inscribed with the word ratchet, the Internet exploded with speculation: It would be the title of a new single she and Lady Gaga were collaborating again she was shaking up her image it was the name of her next album. Photo: Clockwise from top left: beyonce/Instagram beyonce/Instagram ladygaga/Instagram
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