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What is The Backpack?
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
The Backpack - video
The Backpack - what is it?
When spooning the big spoon is physically smaller than the little spoon.
I woke with my wife backpacking me.
What does "The Backpack" mean?
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 principals: 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 principals, 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.
The Backpack - what does it mean?
1. A person who travels independently, typically on a low budget, usually staying in hostels or with locals rather than in hotels. Usually aged between 18 and 30 but can be older. Backpackers often travel for several months at a time, and do not consider their trip to be a "holiday". Due to the fact that backpacking was popularized by the hippie movement in the 1960s, there is some association of backpackers with aspects of counterculture.
2. A fan of certain types of "alternative" hip-hop. When used as a derogatory term, it can imply that the individual is suburban/middle class and listens to "nerd rap" rather than "real rap". When used as a neutral term of description, it can imply that the individual listens to thought-provoking, original, intellectual hip-hop. The term is especially associated with fans of the record label Definitive Jux.
1. "Last night I went out for a spliff with a bunch of Australian backpackers I met in a club, they were pretty cool guys."
2. "Oh I'm not really into that whole artsy backpacker scene, I prefer straight-up rap music, stuff like 2Pac and N.W.A."
The Backpack - meaning
describes socially conscious and/or underground hip hop
the new talib kweli is a party album but he's still backpack at heart.
The Backpack - definition
Traveling around with only a backpack on your back. This method of travel is usually associated with youth, but people of all ages backpack.
I had a great time backpacking Europe.
The Backpack - slang
“The Backpack” is the backpack a lesbian carries her strap-on in
I hope you’re planing on bringing “The Backpack” tonight.
The Backpack
When you throw a backpack at a person who is disabled.
Alex just backpacked the hell out of that kid on the bus
The Backpack
To rest youre ballsack on someones forehead, and at the same time constantly slap their chin with youre cock.
"let me give you the backpack"
The Backpack
The "backpack" is a sexual act in which a male stands behind a female and reaches his arms over her shoulders inserting a finger from each hand into her vagina. After insertion the male then mounts the females back assuming a "piggy back" position. After the male is airborne he continues to "finger blast" the female. *This is usually performed while dancing*
Man! Youll never believe it. i pulled the Backpack off last night at Shortys.