backpacker

a girl with a nice -ss, a “back you wanna pack,”-if you will. you could careless about how her front looks but you are hiv positive that it’s ugly as h-ll.
d-mn g, look at that backpacker. i just wanna pack her from behind
backpacker is based on a fashion style popular in the mid to late 90s where people involved in hip-hop wore large backpacks. originated by graf writers who kept all their cans and nozzles in the packs, the style caught on quick with the suburbanites and rock kids who didn’t want to stray too far from their style but still wanted to have a hip-hop flava.

people use it now as a derogatory term for nerd-rappers, hippy-hoppers, and other fringe hip-hop followers, referencing the fact most of the listeners are suburbanites buying or co-opting into a certain style.
it’s not about the backpackers or the og bling blingers, you blind f-ck.
slang term referring to a fan of alternative and underground hip-hop
little brother is beginning to appeal to both the mainstream and backpacker crowds
backpacker:
1. originally a coined slang term from the 1980s for a graffiti artist that always kept a backpack on containing his finite music collection and more importantly his rattle cans, markers, and spray tips.
although, mainly his music collection is what defines him/her as a backpacker. most likely the music collection will consist of usually local underground rap/hip-hop music artists only. the sub-genre or sub-categoration of the music means nothing, as long as they are a local unsigned (no recording contract) artist.
a backpackers music selections are based upon three princ-p-ls: 1) no mainstream, 2) you could never buy the music in a store, and 3) the music was given/sold to them “hand-to-hand” from the originating recording artist.

2. modernly used derogatory term to describe someone who listens only to independent rap/hip-hop music, specifically (but not limited to) the nerd-rap sub-genre of the rap/hip-hop music. most often used in reference to (but not limited by) white sub-urbanite rap/hip-hop music listeners that tend to dislike mainstream rap/hip-hop music, specifically (but not limited to) gangsta rap.

notes: many hip-hop listeners from the 80s to early 90s agree that since the invention of the internet, underground has died along with backpackers and there three main princ-p-ls, hence this modernized definition incorporating independent rap/hip-hop music and locality of artists lost. hip-hop listeners with twenty or more years of experience will often disagree on the definition of backpacker with the new era of listeners who never have experienced hip-hop without the internet.
ex. for definition 1:
john 1ner, the local graff kid only listens to music that he buys at shows from local artists, he never buys music from the record store, unless it’s in the local section and they are unsigned hype artists.

ex. for definition 2:
yo your boy johny bugs me out with that nerd-rap stuff about comic books and emo relationships, fools such a backpacker, always dissin on dre and biggie.
a backpacker has nothing to do with an over obsessive love for the hip-hop label definitive jux nor are they in any way -ssociated with hipsters. a backpacker is just a person who think rap and hip-hop are two different genres. thinking rap is about self indulgent wanna be gangstas with a need to show of their shopping list and contribute nothing to the music industry but their idiotic “thug life” ideals. they put all forms of support into hip-hop and just love good music in general.

they also love all/partic-p-te in all/most sub-cultures of hip-hop including the main five elements: emceeing, deejaying (turntabilism), graffiti, b-boying (breakdancing), and beatboxing.

and a backpacker has nothing to do with a persons skin color. its ignorance like that that belittles the social advances of the last 30 years. stop listening to your racist redneck father.
hip-hop head conscious of the corrupt rap world = backpacker