Juicy J's 5 Most Ratchet Mixtapes

Were it not for Juicy J, "ratchet" would not be nearly as popular a term as it currently is. He certainly wasn't the first to use the word, but over the course of his late-career comeback, has became forever associated with it thanks to frequent usage and that iconic "You say no to ratchet pussy, Juicy J can't" line in "Bandz A Make Her Dance" (also, who could forget the ratchet-as-hell "Stay Trippy" online game?). Juicy's second wind began taking shape around 2009-2010, when he started dropping solo mixtapes more frequently, and if you look at a graph charting the word "ratchet'"s popularity in hip-hop, you'll see that it almost mirrors Juicy's recent rise to the top.

With the former Three 6 Mafia member's latest tape, Blue Dream & Lean 2, arriving yesterday, we thought it'd be a good time to look back on the past five years of "Ratchet Juicy." The new one's certainly filled with tales of Juicy going extraordinary lengths for some filthy action, but how does it stack up against his two Rubba Band Business tapes with trap mastermind Lex Luger? Taking lyrics and beats into consideration, we've ranked the Trippy Mane's five most ratchet mixtapes. As a commercial release, Stay Trippy isn't eligible, and due to their more gangsta-centric subject matter, none of Juicy's tapes with his brother Project Pat are on here either. Instead, these releases come after Juicy transitioned from a horrorcore pioneer to a fun-loving horndog.

Quite possibly the rapper who's made the most references to throwing money at strippers and skeeting on womens' faces in history, Juicy J is in a class of his own. Let us know if you think we missed any particularly dirty lyrics or tapes.

Released just before the Rubba Band Business series took off, The Southern Dynasty was a transition tape for Juicy. On one hand, you have tracks like "Old Triple Six" where he says "feed a nigga body to the Mississippi River," and on the other, he's paving the way for his Taylor Gang days with Wiz Khalifa on "In My Car." This is where the persona of Ratchet Juicy begins to take shape.

On the Khalifa-assisted track, Juicy makes the Clintons sound like the most ratchet first family around, referencing Monica Lewinsky and rapping, "Got hoes like Hillary and smoke like Bill." The raunch continues on the ensuing track "Top Notch," most noticeably due to a hook that's just a loop of Pimp C's "Top notch hoes get the most not the lesser" line from "Int'l Players Anthem." Saying things like "I fuck with cocaine snorters" and "all I do is lay pipe," Juicy sounds less menacing than usual, and more down for a party.

The track "Thin Line," which appears towards the end of the tape, has Juicy telling the story of a woman who could be described as both "ratchet" and "gangster," as she gives the best head and smokes the best kush: "She be on the block, she selling’ drugs/She be in the club, hanging’ with them thugs.” Not quite the sexually-focused lyrical content Juicy would later dole out with every line, but he was getting there.

In October of 2010, most of the world came to know Lex Luger as the architect of Waka Flocka Flame's Flockaveli, a pummeling collection of in-your-face trap tracks. With this booming sound taking off in strip clubs across the South, Juicy linked with Luger to drop his most sex-crazed lines yet, giving dancers something a little less violent to twerk to. 

In his first legitimate verse on the tape, Juicy likens his dick to a pogo stick with women bouncing on it and gives a much more vivid description of "Supermanning" than Soulja Boy could ever muster ("Nut all on their backs, slap a cape on"). Things get more ratchet from there on out, with as many as three songs containing mentions of Juicy jizzing on faces, and strippers popping up in too many to count. There are still thugged-out outliers like anti-snitching anthem "Rattin' Ass," but all in all, J is in a happier, more pussy-infested position. 

The song "$$$ Signs" might even contain a top three Juicy line in terms of its ratchetness: "All these rashes on my dick 'cause my diamonds glistenin'." Contracting rashes from sex? Ratchet. Calculating sexual appeal based on wealth? Ratchet. 

That's right, Juicy's latest isn't his most ratchet, but it's up there. Over production from Mike WiLL Made It, Jahlil Beats and others, Juicy shares portraits of a life that's a bit more lavish than it was in the past (thanks, "Dark Horse" money), and thus he may have upped his standards a bit. But while the quality of woman has gone up, his desires have remained intact. He's turning college girls into strippers, telling single mothers to let the kids "stay with their granny," filling his kitchen with twerking, half-naked models, and insisting that one woman a day is not enough. 

That being said, Juicy also seems to make an effort to branch out at least a little on Blue Dream & Lean 2, most notably on the political track "Don't" (bet you never thought you'd hear a Juicy J song open with an intro from Common). Even in the outro of the otherwise-filthy "All I Want," Juicy gets misty-eyed and nostalgic remembering Three 6's glory days. Like gray hairs just starting to sprout on his chin, these exceptions to the ratchet rule show Juicy getting a bit older and wiser, even if he's unwilling to admit it. We'll just have to see whether or not he opts to dye his hair. 

Teaming back up with Lex Luger for round two, Juicy made an even more stripper-friendly tape in Rubba Band Business 2. Although it's possible that the tape and its predecessor were made in the same studio session, the sequel finds Luger mining smoother, club-ready territory, with Juicy following suit and saving the crime talk for back-to-back bangers "Bought Some Guns Yesterday" and "Met The Wrong Gun."

Elsewhere, he's comparing himself to Charlie Sheen with three girls in his hotel room, creeping on college girls ("the dorm room is my domain"), talking about a girl who's got "more miles on that pussy than my car do," sexing women on their periods, and flipping a coin to determine which end of a woman he'll enter. All in a day's work for Juice. Name-dropping famed Atlanta strip club Magic City a number of times, it would seem as if he recorded the entire tape in the midst of a bender in the ATL.

Paving the way for Luger to drop the twerk anthem "Round Of Applause" with Waka and Drake just months later, RBB2 would only result in Juicy going further down a "Wolf Of Wall Street"-style rabbit hole, making his next project his most raunchy to date. 

Aside from Stay Trippy, the first Blue Dream & Lean is both the trippiest and most ratchet project in Juicy J's catalog. As its name would suggest, the tape is druggier than either of the Rubba Band Business offerings, but it turns out that Juicy increasing his drug intake only results in more sex. 

The sex talk peaks in the middle of the lengthy tape with two songs -- "Got A New One" and "She Dancin'" -- that rarely make use of nouns that aren't drug or pussy-related. With these in mind, the list of ratchet sex acts that Juicy describes on the tape becomes staggering, so we've picked a few highlights:

"I put molly on the tongue of any nigga wifey."

"I don't handcuff hoes and make 'em my bride, just take 'em to the 'telly put my dick inside."

"My bitch asked me do I love her, I tell her 'yeah,' but the truth is I only love the head."

"I gave her my number, she gave me her panties, Lil mama can blow, so I gave her a Grammy."

"How slutty is these hoes, boy I'm about to see, one of them is finna suck, one of them finna eat."

"When it comes to bitches, Juicy Wilt Chamberlain." 

"Want money in your purse? You gon' have to work, get your ass on the floor, mix in with the dirt."

We don't know if Juicy will ever attempt to top the amount of stripper talk that's on Blue Dream & Lean, but if he does, it'll be a difficult bar to raise.