Ever driving in your car and some jerk off flys by you and nearly hits you in a beat up old piece of shit Beamer with the bumper hanging off. You, kind sir have in fact encountered a hood rat.
Apparently in order to be a hood rat you must smoke copious amounts of
weed, drive
like a douche,
work at Popeyes or some shit like that, and have your pants hanging down as low as a midgit.