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antirap en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + rap.

Meanings

1. Opposing rap music.
   • black leaders […] have encouraged antirap movements and coordinated antirap music hearings 1997, Joseph K. Adjaye, Adrianne R. Andrews, Language, rhythm, and sound, page 261:
   • What was Delores Tucker, a longtime Democratic party activist, doing lending her name as coauthor to antirap articles that Bennett used to raise money for his right-wing advocacy group, Empower America? 1999, Barry Glassner, The culture of fear: why Americans are afraid of the wrong things, page 123:
   • Antirap arguments that peaked during the 1990s are symptomatic of white America's persistent fear of blackness and black men[…] 2007, Linda G. Tucker, Lockstep and dance: images of black men in popular culture, page 132:

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