1992, Staci Bonner, album review, Spin, June 1992, page 72:
It's the words that count here, and the preachy wail "raptivist" [Sister] Souljah provides doesn't add up to much.
1995, Peter J. Caulfield, "Teaching Rhetoric as a Way of Knowing", in Left Margins: Cultural Studies and Composition Pedagogy (eds. Karen Fitts & Alan W. France), State University of New York Press (1995), →ISBN, page 163:
The participants (rhetors) included ”raptivist" Sister Souljah, as well as some older, more traditional male leaders from the African-American community and one white, female sociologist.
1997, Norman Kelley, Black Heat, Cool Grove Press (1997), →ISBN, page 94:
Mbooma Shaka was the new Nation. A very charismatic former rapper, or raptivist, and very dynamic street leader, his street credentials were impeccable: […]
1997, Sia Michel, album review, Spin, August 1997, page 111:
A savvy raptivist, Wyclef's reaching for both pop superstardom and rebel cred.
2001, Charise Cheney, "Representin' God: Masculinity and the Use of the Bible in Rap Music", in African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Structures (ed. Vincent L. Wimbush), Continuum (2001), →ISBN, page 804:
For example, in his controversial 1989 release The Devil Made Me Do It militant Oakland-based raptivist Paris traces his black nationalist roots to the 1940s and the founding of the Temple of Islam, which would later become known as the Nation of Islam.
2004, Jon Dolan, "More New Music to Hear Now", Spin, March 2004, page 35:
Born in a Peruvian military hospital and raised in Harlem, Immortal Tech is a fatigues-rocking raptivist who humanizes his left-wing-nut conspiracy spiels by filtering them through a past that includes time served at a Pennsylvania jail.
2008, Marcus Reeves, Somebody Scream!: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power, Faber & Faber (2008), →ISBN, page 111:
Just as Public Enemy's raptivist posturing convinced a growing hip-hop nation that hardcore rappers could be righteous racial messiahs, […]
2009, M. K. Asante, Jr., It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation, St. Martin's Griffin (2009), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
As legendary raptivist KRS-One remembers about the older generation's position on the emerging culture, “Our own people prevented our voices from being heard. And that's the real politics that need to be addressed.”
