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backpacker n. Don’t think underground its so much better and because you know some people from it your a pro, you seem like a backpacker, loser. [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

backpacker n. I love hip-hop…and No…I’m about as FAR from a backpacker as there is, however I absolutely detest the garbage that supposed “fans” of this aesthetic are touting as “dope.” [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

backpacker n. Much or most of what i really like these days would be considered “backpacker” stuff anyway. but i wouldn’t call the stuff i don’t like not hip-hop. it’s all hip-hop. pop fans saying atmosphere isn’t hip-hop bothers me as much as backpackers saying that chingy isn’t hip-hop. [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

backpacker n. 50 is tight because he is authentic and keeps it real and ignant…thats how gangsta rap is supposed to be…I don’t expect nerd backpackers to like 50 because he doesn’t use a lot of cutesy complex word play…Or isn’t all depressing and introspective. [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

backpacker n. This is the main thing i detest about these corny, revisionist backpackers : they’re all newjacks who started listening to rap in the 1993 when “36 chambers” came out and have no concept or understanding of early 80s rap or Kid Capri or D.J Ron G blends tapes and how r&b and disco are just as important to rap as funk and soul.…Gay “real hip hop” jansport wearers like NeilNice are what’s ruined hip hop, not rap tracks…that sample r&b classics and have sung hooks. [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

bandonym n. More singer-songwriters have noticed that you don’t need a “bandonym” (in critic Carl Wilson’s useful coinage) to wrap yourself in myth. [English Music Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 5, 2007)

bathroom song n. There are smart and stupid times to visit a public restroom. A stupid time would be at an oldies concert, when someone like Paul McCartney says, “Here’s a song from my new album.” In the concert trade, those are called “bathroom songs.” The lines will be long. Better off holding it in until Hey, Jude. [English Music] [full cite] (Jun. 12, 2008)

beauty and the beast n. The first thing you will immediately notice about Nightwish is the lovely, high, sweet and operatic voice of Tarja Turunen. In a way, it is this that sets Nightwish apart from other bands, though more and more progressive/power metal bands are featuring female vocalists, whether in the “beauty and the beast” mode or as sole vocalist. [English Music] [full cite] (Mar. 8, 2007)

belt-buckle rash n. Belt-Buckle Rash is actually the result of many factors; snaps, zippers and even the abrasive effects of denim will also result in finish damage. However, the most sinister threat to an instrument’s finish is the inconspicuous “Pocket Rivet.” [English Music] [full cite] (Dec. 13, 2006)

black scale n. The pentatonic scale is sometimes called the black scale, as so many Negro spirituals are pentatonic: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” and “Deep River” were named. (I happen to know that Wings’”Mull of Kintyre” is also pentatonic, but that wasn’t mentioned.) The definitive version is Mahalia Jackson’s. [English Music] [full cite] (Mar. 26, 2007)

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