Backpacker (term)
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Backpacker is a term usually used for people who listen to underground hip-hop/rap.
[edit] History
"Backpacker" was originally a slang term from the 1980s for a graffiti artist who always wore a backpack containing his music collection and, more importantly, his spraypaint cans, markers, and spray tips. Typically, the music collection would consist of local underground rap/hip-hop music artists. The term gradually came to refer to someone with this musical taste, and now has almost nothing to do with graffiti (although certain "backpackers" may participate in graffiti "tagging.")
It has come full circle now and is sometimes used as a derogatory term by the mainstream to describe underground hip hop fans.
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