This song helped to popularized the slang of the word ratchet which was first used this way in Mandigo’s song ratchet in 1999. The term then spread from a regional slang word in Shreveport, Louisiana (aka Ratchet City) to being used world wide.
[Intro]
Nasty, Oh yeah, Boosie Badazz and we all got some ratchet in us
Yeah, everybody got lil ratchet in them, for real
Lego, lego, look
This for my ratchet niggas and my ratchet hoes
Who come out they clothes 'cause lil Boosie gotta go
And I'm a ratchet nigga, but I'm a savage with it (savage with it)
You wanna verse, 10 g's and put the taxes wid it
We gotta ratchet city, you got a project full of hoes, with some saggy titties then you the sickest, look
My nigga Mandigo, he got the antidote
They call them ratchet in that bottom 'cause he move that coke
Now where Big Poppa at? you know he ratchet too
You know he take them X pills and pop 'em two by two
She in the club jiggin but she a classy chick
She on the wall posted up, you know you ratchet bitch
She got [?], but she be making fetty
But I can't talk 'bout lil mama 'cause I got three already
And yeah I miss my daddy, he was a ratchet thug
Man he showed me the game about these ratchet [?]
This for Shreveport, and Dallas Texas
This for that ratchet nigga stunting in his cousin Lexus
The president, he ratchet, [?]
His ratchet ass ain't have to send them muthafuckin' planes
[?]
It's sad to say but the USA got some ratchet soldiers
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It's sad to say but the USA got some ratchet soldiers
[Chorus]
Now do tha ratchet, oh yeah
Now do tha ratchet, come on
Now do tha ratchet, yeah, do tha ratchet, look
He ratchet, she ratchet, he ratchet, she ratchet, he ratchet, she ratchet, and man we all got some ratchet in us
Now do tha ratchet, oh yeah
Now do tha ratchet, oh yeah
Now do tha ratchet, yeah, do tha ratchet, look
He ratchet, she ratchet, he ratchet, she ratchet, he ratchet, man we all got some ratchet in us
[Verse 1: Mr. Mandigo]
Mr. Mandigo, Ratchet King, Ratchet man (uh huh)
Got port city jumpin' and doin' the ratchet dance (yeah yeah)
I'm ratchet when I talk, I'm ratchet when I walk
I'm a ratchet ass nigga, that's my motha's fault
We ratchet boy [?]
Hood rich ratchet, prolly why they hate Manny, yeah
I don't pills, but I get jiggy
I got that antidote, Cedar Grove ratchet city
Big dog, big nuts, I'm a G with mine
Nigga mad I got cash, I'm fresh with mine
I'ma go hard ratchet and a money making ratchet
My Lava House antsy got your girl gettin' nasty
[?] ice, I live a ratchet life (come on)
I ain't gotta rap, I started this ratchet hype
My ratchet ways got these boys [?]
I flipped thirty cars, weed [?]
[Chorus]
Now do tha ratchet, oh yeah
Now do tha ratchet, come on
Now do tha ratchet, yeah, do tha ratchet, look
He ratchet, she ratchet, he ratchet, she ratchet, he ratchet, she ratchet, and man we all got some ratchet in us
Now do tha ratchet, oh yeah
Now do tha ratchet, oh yeah
Now do tha ratchet, yeah, do tha ratchet, look
He ratchet, she ratchet, he ratchet, she ratchet, he ratchet, man we all got some ratchet in us
[Verse 2: Untame Mayne]
I'm ratchet out the game, ain't no reason to lie
I've been ratchet since eighty-two, so I'm ratchetfied till I die
I get ratchet with these hoes, [?]
Then I call my ratchet home boys, we all gon' lie
Yeah you lack class [?]
Behind them closed doors, you [?] be gettin' ratchet
Monica Lewinsky, is a [?] ratchet
Bill Clinton had her on her knees slobbin' on 'em sack
These doctors be gettin' ratchet, nurses be gettin' ratchet
Lawyer, DA, and Judge, the whole Jury be gettin' ratchet
Swangin' up in that wagon on my way to the club
Hop out with yesterday's clothes on lookin' like a ratchet thug
High at my ratchet club, we got plenty ratchet guns
Willin' to do the ratchet, the ratchet to hang with us
It don't matter where you go, we see ratchet hoes and ratchet niggas
So come on and get ratchet with it
[Chorus]
Now do tha ratchet, oh yeah
Now do tha ratchet, come on
Now do tha ratchet, yeah, do tha ratchet, look
He ratchet, she ratchet, he ratchet, she ratchet, he ratchet, she ratchet, and man we all got some ratchet in us
Now do tha ratchet, oh yeah
Now do tha ratchet, oh yeah
Now do tha ratchet, yeah, do tha ratchet, look
He ratchet, she ratchet, he ratchet, she ratchet, he ratchet, man we all got some ratchet in us
[Outro]
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Do Tha Ratchet was written by Boosie Badazz.
Boosie Badazz released Do Tha Ratchet on Mon Dec 04 2006.