Hiphop Lesson...What is a Backpacker..

nujerz84 · January 2013

Its become cliche on the internet to label any MC or fan said MC with any type of lyrical skill/talent a backpacker.

It originally stemmed from b boys carrying there krylon spray-paint cans in book-bags to carry when they tagged the subway..wall... etc..

In terms of MC's and Rappers it was comically and wrongly became popular when this dropped...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYULmZAtcKY

the video had them carrying book bags etc thus the term backpack rapper was born...

Boot Camp Click was the group credtited with being branded with that name...the same crew that has Sean Price Smiff N Wessun backpackers word on what planet?...

Somehow Slaughterhouse both as a group and individual are labeled as backpackers wtf..that only because they actually can rap...based on content far from it...anyone saying they are cleary dont know what the ? they are talking about.

Overtime it rightfully labeled to MC's who are the socially conscious and/underground or straight up nerd rap.

This is true backpack/nerd ? ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BffumeEaYOI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVeUQxi7960

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGa7ueoXlgM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvPnM2Q1nwU

this is not backpack rap ? ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHydpEj-JJQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkFNg1VxJ6U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZokp9VLHOM

nujerz84 · January 2013

bump

genocidecutter · January 2013

Excellent thread

Disciplined InSight · January 2013

Thanks for the Hip Hop 101...

loch121 · January 2013

I'm a proud member of the backpacking community even when I have no bookbag

I went back to school just to have a reason to carry one again

But some ? had guns,knives,and drugs in them backpacks wasn't all flower power hour

blackgod813 · January 2013

I was under the assassumption that back pak phrase was hand in hand with the pro black comie rap.mos def immoratal tek dead prez ect lyrcist lounge klik side of things ......

JDSTAYWITIT · January 2013

? that wear backpacks?

SOWETO · January 2013

JDSTAYWITIT. wrote: »

? that wear backpacks?

right?

nycdiesel · January 2013

lmao "nerd rap"

DJ_Pauls Arm · January 2013

blackgod813 wrote: »

I was under the assassumption that back pak phrase was hand in hand with the pro black comie rap.mos def immoratal tek dead prez ect lyrcist lounge klik side of things ......

what the ? ?

blackgod813 · January 2013

I like ass get use to it

DJ_Pauls Arm · January 2013

nh.............

UrbanScribe · January 2013

This whole time I thought is was a term for political rappers... Dope post.

(Nope) · January 2013

That Can-OX song is dope, I think Questlove named Iron Galaxy album of the year when that came out, it was praised as a "sonic masterpiece" because of the El-P production, the instrumentals on that were bonkerz.

People were calling that backpack, but DEF JUX was Hip Hop then, they consistently put out dope ? , had a strong Hip Hop foundation, that was a dope Indy and the other half of Company Flow Big Juss started Subverse which was also dope, but faded quick.

If you didn't have a copy of Funcrusher Plus, you were doing something wrong.

When I think pretentious nerd, "I'm more Hip Hop than Hip Hop" rap, Anticon and Sage Francis are at the top of the list, just by default, they have some ? for fans, "I heard this ? at Rock the Bells trying to tell someone Sage Francis was like a rapper who rapped poetry" or some dumb ? , sounded racist and naive as ? , people wen't on to clone his style, by no fault of his own he became this iconoclast that helped validate nerd ? YT's that would only listen to that "type of rap" and otherwise had no involvement with Hip Hop, but were quick to tell you what Hip Hop was.

I'm not sure who I hate more them or the ? who just carry backpacks for fun or to match an outfit now.

If you caught me with a backpack, back when, I had records, books and sketch pads, was on a mission with spraypaint or I was moving work around, my back pack would have got me football numbers.

Anyhow props to threadstarter.

BackInWhite · January 2013

shut up

Tommy bilfiger · January 2013

Baccpackers are geeks who listen to distant relatives,lupe fiasco and mf doom they walk around wit spray cans in their baccpacks and notebooks wit all the words past the margins,they randomly bust out and start freestyling and sit on rooftops listening to mixtapes like illmatic and albums like resurrection

People of this ilk are almost obsolete they have migrated to hip hop forums and have 10,000 + posts

DJ_Pauls Arm · January 2013

Tommy real as ? .
nh

GSonII · January 2013

Whatever they call themselves most of that stuff you post is not even hot

ShencotheMC · January 2013

Usually just another word for elitist

Gucci Scott King · January 2013

People who don't have fun at clubs

Like Water · January 2013

People who catch flack because of their appreciation for lyrics. Which, last time I checked, was supposed to be an essential component of a quality hip-hop record.

usmarin3 · January 2013

It's basically music snobs and elitist. If the beats ain't boom bap and the content ain't pro black, street, metaphysics,etc then its wack

NoCompetition · January 2013

People who wear backpacks. But with the responses here I see its a term to describe how posters on here act. Like people havin fun listenin to whatever and somebody in the corner like "please dont like that." These people are disregarded and only provide entertainment. People laugh at them not with them.

a_list · January 2013

Yo, some of the most arrogant, stuck up fans you'll ever come a cross....I dont know whats worst them or these bang in the whip and clubs type fans....My boy is on that backpack ? and is one of the most fair weather fans, let one of them cats do a record with a popular rapper, and its over sun is no longer a fan...Cat hates Nas because Nas isnt on his 12th Illmatic...lol