Hiphop Lesson...What is a Backpacker..

nujerz84

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...



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 fuck 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 shit..










this is not backpack rap shit..

nujerz84

bump

genocidecutter

Excellent thread

Disciplined InSight

Thanks for the Hip Hop 101...

loch121

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

blackgod813

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.

niggas that wear backpacks?

SOWETO

JDSTAYWITIT. wrote: »

niggas that wear backpacks?

right?

nycdiesel

lmao "nerd rap"

DJ_Pauls Arm

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 fuck?

blackgod813

I like ass get use to it

DJ_Pauls Arm

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

UrbanScribe

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

(Nope)

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 shit, 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 faggots for fans, "I heard this bitch at Rock the Bells trying to tell someone Sage Francis was like a rapper who rapped poetry" or some dumb shit, sounded racist and naive as fuck, people wen't on to clone his style, by no fault of his own he became this iconoclast that helped validate nerd faggot 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 faggots 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

shut up

Tommy bilfiger

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

Tommy real as fuck.
nh

GSonII

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

ShencotheMC

Usually just another word for elitist

Gucci Scott King

People who don't have fun at clubs

Like Water

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

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

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

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 shyt 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

RodrigueZz

I thought the term backpack referred to rap songs where the majority of emphasis is put on the lyrics rather than the instrumental

Stopitfive

this thread is full of failure... from both sides... stop being ideologues...