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raptivist en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹæp.tɪ.vɪst/
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Etymology

Blend of rapper + activist.

Meanings

1. (slang) A rapper who is involved in political and/or social activism.
   • 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. 2004 March, Jon Dolan, “More New Music to Hear Now”, in Spin, page 35:
   • 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.” 2009, M. K. Asante, Jr., It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:
   • 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. 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:

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