Some of Ratt's last comments to the author M.Scott:

...Brother, you have no ideal how honored to be in both your books and and to have known you all my youth and adult life..to have up and downs and still friends and brothers of a belief. Thanks so much for your accurate account of the truth. Keep on writing!

...if anything ever happens to me, and I can't get a hold of you, please know that in my life it was a honor and pleaser to know you and grow up as lords on the streets in our youths....I miss our days Rock.

Ratt was honorably characterized in both books:

Lords of Lawndale

Lords of Kilbourn