Definition for backpacker?
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Anybody that had heavy baselines and lo fi beats after 94
90's underground rappers on some real Hiphop sh!t used to be backpackers. For example Blackmoon. Check how they got backpacks on in the video
Then the definition changed around 1999, 2000 nerd rappers became known as the backpackers
Then the definition changed around 1999, 2000 nerd rappers became known as the backpackers
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Backpack all day brehs
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A B Boy in every sense, the backpack held your graf utensils, your rhyme books, records. Just underground hip hop head that lived the hip hop culture
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Here's an example.....
Definition changed DRASTICALLY after groups like this started dropping gems and heat.
Used to define those of us mired in some form of the cultural aspects of hip hop.
Definition changed DRASTICALLY after groups like this started dropping gems and heat.
Used to define those of us mired in some form of the cultural aspects of hip hop.
thewiseman
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Backpack rap used to represent like people said the Boot Camp Clique types, who were hood nikkas for the most part
By the late 90s it represented nerdy kids
By the late 90s it represented nerdy kids
The Definition changed over time
90's backpackers were into shyt like bootcamp click and would carry guns, cans in their knapsack and listen to music rooted in an underground that was heavy on street.
late 90's and early 2000 hipster backpackers co-opted that movement out of respect and idolization of the realness of 90's music but they were purist nerds who were often hypocritical idealists and far removed from the street element... all about lyrical miracle raps... They made elitist soulless music and spoke against the essence of the music they loved. They would talk against commercialism and sexual objectification of women while making exceptions for people like slum village who were on the same shyt. They just didn't like to see rappers on the "mainstream" winning. In their backpacks you would find incense and a thesarus.
Past this era the definition gets even murky... a lot of those same hipster cacs would later abandon rap all together when they felt it got too mainstream because they couldn't adjust. What you had left were underground acts that were actually nice like Slum, MF doom, Pharoahe who had got lumped in with these other hipster acs like Aesop Rock, Cage etc. The ones that survived broke thru to some middle ground. Rappers like Mos and Kweli, Pharoahe, Little Brother, Slum, etc those who could bridge the gap somewhat between the mainstream and underground. The rest faded into obscurity.
Modern day hipsters are NOT backpackers in a role reversal somewhere around and post the crunk era I watched hipsters start fukking with the southern rap movement that's how you get an El-p and Killer Mike (run the jewelz) in the same group.
Thanks for your retarded input but He is one of the highest grossing acts in mainstream rap so that isn't remotely reality.
i do not agree with aesop rock being hipster acts.... but for the most part i agree with this post.
TransJenner
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Remember those nerdy fakkits in HS that would play Lupe and College Dropout
That's pretty much them
That's pretty much them
fukkk you. if we were in the same school, you wouldnt say SHYT.
Used to go to high school wit a damn backpack with all my shyt in it.
Bumpin Del the funky homosapians both sides of the brain, Fatlips debut and other piff on the school bus >>>>>>