Does it have a great popular culture impact (AKA do your black, white, Puerto Rican, and Asian friends know this song and do you shame them if they don’t)?.

In a sizable crowd, do at least half the people go “yaaaaaaaas” or show some other form of excitement when the song comes on and rush to the dance floor?.

So since I equate summer with getting ratchet and music, why not create a personal ranking of my favorite ratchet-turn-up-anthems? Enjoy. I’m not sure, but maybe it’s because I had the privilege of growing up when BET and MTV still showed hour blocks of music videos, so half of my day was spent watching those. I recently found my iPod from high school, and you know what I realized? I was pretty ratchet.

For me, songs that get released in the summer hold a lot more memories. One of my favorite things about summer is music. Is it just me, or does something about summer make you want to get ratchet? You know, do hoodrat stuff with your friends.

Simply summarized by: A bitch who is also ghetto. Ratcheteers will spend all Monday at work on Facebook deleting evidence so close friends and family do not discover their ratchetness. They will only find out about their behavior once on word spreads of their ratchetry on social media websites. An air mattress The ratcheteer typically will have no recollection of the previous evening as they will sleep until noon the next day. Once a ratcheteer has identified and brought his ratchet back from the club for an 'afterparty' he seeks out four specific environments for mating: 1. He is especially adept at disposing of evidence in parking lots. The Ratcheteer has a specialized mating dance, similar to a body roll, used to signal ratchets that he is in heat. The ratcheteer's natural mating call is Rihanna's Talk That Talk which he requests from the DJ or sits in the parking lot banging from his car. A connoisseur of ratchet women, especially those pulled from nightclubs after last call.

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