raptivist
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raptivist (plural raptivists)
- (slang) A rapper who is involved in political and/or social activism.
- 1995, Peter J. Caulfield, “Teaching Rhetoric as a Way of Knowing”, in Karen Fitts, Alan W. France, editors, Left Margins: Cultural Studies and Composition Pedagogy, State University of New York Press, →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.
- 2004 March, Jon Dolan, “More New Music to Hear Now”, in Spin, 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.
- 2009, M. K. Asante, Jr., It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation[1], St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:
- 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.”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:raptivist.