What is backpacker Rap? Why do brehs hate it?

[Figaro]

Back pack rapper got me through some hard times

fukk the haters.

 

[Trot LaRoc]

If i had a dollar for everyime i had a cac recommend Aesop rock to me, id have a nice pile of cash

They LOVE that shyt

Ppl interchange backpack with underground

Mos Def was never a damn backpack rapper...he was rapping about bytches and street shyt

 

[Rozay Oro]

ill say this...R.A. i dont consider backpack rap for some reason....he is legit nice when he wants to be...that whole crustified dibbs shyt he was on back in the day though

crustified dibbs? I never heard a dope song by RA lmao

 

[Trot LaRoc]

crustified dibbs? I never heard a dope song by RA lmao

RA always been ....never got the appeal

 

[patscorpio]

RA always been ....never got the appeal

Like I said he is nice when he wants to be lol...I will say hes one white rapper that actually collabs with nikkas...he never half stepped but yeah acquired taste esp if you've heard how he used to sound like back in the day

 

[patscorpio]

crustified dibbs? I never heard a dope song by RA lmao

RA has been out for a long time...his older shyt is....yeah acquired taste....pioneer of mentally ill rap

 

[Barney Rubble]

Which is taboo.
Which is why things have descended into the prison industrial economy madness we are all affected by.
When the rapper eho ushered in thr technical renaissance went commercial then jiggy. Plus krs endorse'n puff and later bambattymon.

Made it so the culture had no gateway protection mechanism. Nor mores and norms to stop.an overpopulance of toys from ruining an entire culture.


Art Barr

They know you're right but they'll never admit it. Once the leaders of a culture seek mainstream appeal then that culture becomes diluted and ceases to exist.

 

[Reptile]

I thought that term was made because of Del.

 

[Tom Foolery]

Always hated the term backpacker. It's meant to identify graffiti kids and has lost all meaning now.

 

[x-factor7]

The definition is all over the place. To me, it doesn't matter what a rapper is classified as, as Phonte once said:
"Dope beats, dope rhymes, this hip-hop ain't really that hard man."

 

[LunaticVillage415]

It’s weird that Black Moon was the blueprint for backpack rap and legions of dorky white rappers from the suburbs. Because white backpack rap in the 90’s and 2000’s was vehemently anti-violence and anti-gun like late 80’s rap that was mostly trying to sound really intelligent and profound rapping about rapping. But white backpack rappers were far from the D.O.C. or Rakim, often had terrible basement beats, lacked any soul or rhythm and were terrible at writing songs and even worse at making albums.

But Black Moon was the catalyst for backpack rap because Duck Down portrayed this weird balance of inclusion. Even though Black Moon literally was producing the hardest street rap NYC ever made up until that point, they were always seen with an out of place looking white guy from White Plains, NY and even let him rap sometimes. Some Jewish looking whiteboy with a bad haircut hanging out in pre-gentrification Brownsville in 1993.

This was at a time when white rappers had pretty much gone extinct after Vanilla Ice had been exposed and made into a international joke. Vanilla Ice went from Jake Harlow status to Cassidy Campbell overnight after his paperwork surfaced. Buckshot rapped about riding skateboards, albeit doing a drive by on a skateboard, at a time when skateboarding was synonymous with sheltered white suburbia. Black Moon Enta da Stage is like some weird version of the Bible followed by some obscure cult that is white backpackers. All of the white backpackers I knew had a copy on deck and swore it belonged to their brother.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

To me, there are 3 different types of "Back Pack" rap

1. The OG Duck Down/Black Moon/Native Tongues type....

2. Simply, hiphop that wasn't full blown commercial: Within this branch there were 3 types

a. the most popular of the underground (in the sense that these people actually worked with legit mainstream rappers/producers) which was people like Mos Def, Talib, Common (before kanye stimulus), Roots, Little Brother, Slum Village, Mf Doom, Madlib, etc....

b. the next step down, which was people like Jurassic 5, Murs, Brother Ali, Slug, Blackalicious, Lyrics Born, Non-Phixion, Jedi Mind Tricks etc...

c. the true bottom of the underground: that real corny nerd-rap type sh1t by acts I can't even name





I liked all levels of backpack rap outside of 2c types

 

[Rozay Oro]

The original backpack crowd viewed Illmatic as the crown jewel of boom bap hip hop and Nas as the savior of that sound. IWW was seen as a betrayal they took personally. Nothing mattered to that crowd except that it wasn't Illmatic and didn't try to be

They mad corny

 

[Mac Ten]

Can't forget Jurassic 5.

Another thing about backpack rappers is when they're about to start spitting they hit you with that "Yo, yo, yo, yo" & then jump into their verse.

Jurassic 5... I ain't heard that name in years.


I remember What's Golden being on ATV Offroad Fury 2


I still have their albums in my CD booklet

 

[patscorpio]

But Black Moon was the catalyst for backpack rap because Duck Down portrayed this weird balance of inclusion. Even though Black Moon literally was producing the hardest street rap NYC ever made up until that point, they were always seen with an out of place looking white guy from White Plains, NY and even let him rap sometimes. Some Jewish looking whiteboy with a bad haircut hanging out in pre-gentrification Brownsville in 1993.

Even dropped a n bomb on a joint too