anti-backpacker n. Goldenchild is different from your anti-backpacker or whatever the fuck you wanna call it. He has an open mind. He’s heard the underground hip-hop but he likes jay-z and shit like that more. [EnglishHip-HopMusicSlang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)
backpack rap n. I think that’s already happening in the form of what Stretch Armstrong disdainfully calls “backpack rap"—emphasis on lyrics and/or bugged production, with head-nodding a low priority. unfortunately, this kind of synthetic genre is almost always defined by target demographic, not intenral resemblance. [EnglishUnited StatesHip-HopSlang] [full cite] (Jul. 28, 2004)
backpacker n. There are a lot of places that we still didn’t get to in the video—Arkansas, Kentucky. And there is a big “backpacker” (or alternative) hip-hop scene that we didn’t get to. But that doesn’t take away from this video. It says exactly what needed to be said exactly when it needed to be said. [EnglishUnited StatesHip-Hop] [full cite] (Jun. 22, 2004)
backpacker n. Zee must have been mad because em is rollin with dre and will most likely be on a for sure classic Chronic 2000 and zee will still be nothin more than a boring piece of shit backpacker loser bum. [EnglishUnited StatesHip-HopSlang] [full cite] (Jul. 28, 2004)
backpacker n. If you wanna battle, nerdy-ass backpacker style and see who can throw out the most obscure, old-school, underground, unheard of ass joints then step right up son, you will lose quick, fast in a hurry. I know it taxes your underpowered brain to come up with terms like “true head” but that shit is weak… you’re trying to make yourself out to be some bad-ass backpacker, “cuz you can throw out a few names that maybe someone who listens to Master P and Mase hasn’t heard of. [EnglishUnited StatesHip-HopSlang] [full cite] (Jul. 28, 2004)
backpacker n. Company Flow first crashed into our lives in 1995.…We were dumb enough to think that Rawkus could be bold, new avatars of the hip hop revolution. The word “backpackers” didn’t even have any currency at the time; the reflexive self-hatred and reverse-racial inferiority complexes that would break out like a rash across the avant-garde hip-hop scene hadn’t yet gained such an engulfing weight. [EnglishHip-HopMusic] [full cite] (Aug. 19, 2005)
backpacker n. Searched for your skills, but if you got ‘em, you kept them hid/Voice and flow suck, so you’re the hero of backpackers. [EnglishHip-HopMusicSlang] [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.” [EnglishHip-HopMusicSlang] [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. [EnglishHip-HopMusicSlang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)