Entry · catalog no. 1261
hood rich
/ /hʊd rɪtʃ/ /HUUD RICH
adj. · New Orleans; the Black South · 2000s
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Broke while looking paid — the rims, the chain, the teeth and the system all handled, and the rent is not. Not purely an insult: it names inverted priorities, sometimes with affection, sometimes as a verdict.
“New Chevy sitting on twenty-fours and he got put out last month — hood rich.”
Origin & Attribution
Black Southern hip-hop, with New Orleans and the Cash Money roster as the point of mass transmission. The Big Tymers put it on a record in 2002: Hood Rich, on Cash Money and Universal, with the hit Still Fly carrying the idea in a single couplet. Street use plainly runs earlier than the album, but the archive found no dated attestation before it and records first use as undetermined rather than guessing.
2002
Big Tymers release the album Hood Rich on Cash Money
2002
Still Fly puts the idea on radio nationally
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
The South
New Orleans; the Black South · 2000s
Spoken by
Black Southern speakers; New Orleans
$HOODRIThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Steady0 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
45/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2002
in the culture
Mainstream crossover
2002
search interest spikes
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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Citations & Sources
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Big Tymers, Hood Rich (Cash Money/Universal)
2002
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+ Cite a sourceBig Tymers, "Still Fly"
2002
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