hood rich

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Meaning · English

Exhibiting flamboyant spending habits, while doing nothing to improve one’s living conditions.

Register: slang

Where it’s used: Used American English

Examples

Finally, we must change the “Hood Rich” mentality. The rap group Cash Money described this mentality perfectly when they sung about not being able to pay rent or bills but dri

Quoted attestation: 2005, Malcolm D Carter, $7 an Hour Ain't No Job: The Second Emancipation of the Black Race, Sundog, Limited, →ISBN, page 43,

Sources & notes

Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).

Common questions

What does “hood rich” mean?

Exhibiting flamboyant spending habits, while doing nothing to improve one’s living conditions.

Is “hood rich” formal or informal?

hood rich is generally slang.