Call me Old I dont care, but WTF is backpack music?

[2GooD Productions]

Please enlighten this old fogey as to what the fuck it is.
Bloody dividing genres into subgenres, it gets a bit confusing.

 

[Relic]

haha I never got this either and I used to carry a backpack everywhere...
Sounds like its the good stuff, iono.

 

[Kontents]

Kayne West, Lupe Fiasco

 

[God]

Start here:

1) http://www.definitivejux.net/

 

[Cleverwon]

"Backpacker" hip hop refers to a particular brand of underground Hip-Hop which is so-named because of its backpack-sporting listeners. Backpackers are stereotypically educated, liberal elitists who desire hip hop to be free of all materialism that they claim mainstream rap propagates. They prefer hip hop that they claim is more intelligent and complex, which is often underground.

 

[2GooD Productions]

So its basically socially conscious hiphop?
Hiphop with a message?
Real Hiphop?

So its nothing new then, just a new name for good edutainment hiphop.

Thanks for the link g, I like Blackalicious, I wasnt even aware that one of them was in The Mighty Underdogs.
The free track there sounds good, Im gonna lookout for the album when it drops.

Thanks for clearing that up for me everyone.

 

[Cleverwon]

its basically non commercial, positive hip hop. not necessarily underground or real. cuz there are underground groups that go at backpackers, so its like its own thing.

 

[2GooD Productions]

its basically non commercial, positive hip hop. not necessarily underground or real. cuz there are underground groups that go at backpackers, so its like its own thing.

Now you have just gone and made it complicated again , lol

 

[LDB]

It's music! PERIOD....everything has to go into it's own little compartment these days.....silly!

 

[2GooD Productions]

It's music! PERIOD....everything has to go into it's own little compartment these days.....silly!

Yeah I agree.
I think they do it to create peer groups, so people can feel like they belong to something exclusive.
Its another money making scheme thats been around in music for a while.

I watched old acid house become hardcore, then it became drum n bass, then it became jungle, then it was drum n bass again, now its called breakbeat along with another 20 names. It all gets confusing for old thc soaked braincells.

 

[Relic]

guess I'm a backpacker....more or less.. Thats the type I like.

 

[Quality]

I always thought of backpack hip hop as kind of a subgenre of hip hop like club, experimental, hardcore, etc.

To me, backpack hip hop is music that is creative and inspires you to be creative. Like when you graffiti, backpack hip hop inspires you to be creative like the music you're listening to.

I've always thought of artists such as KRS One, Pete Rock, Kweli, Premier, Jazzy Jeff, Mos Def, Common, Blackmoon, Rakim, A Tribe Called Quest, J Live, Large Pro, J5, Naughty by Nature, Dilla, etc. as backpack hip hop.

I know there is really no reason to put a name on that kind of hip hop, its a little to broad and difficult to understand, plus everyone probably thinks its something different.

 

[Fade]

Backpacker to me was always just GOOD music, period. No bullshit money-driven crap.

 

[skidflow]

Backpacker to me was always just GOOD music, period. No bullshit money-driven crap.

true, true indeed.

 

[slik da relic]

I always thought of backpack hip hop as kind of a subgenre of hip hop like club, experimental, hardcore, etc.

To me, backpack hip hop is music that is creative and inspires you to be creative. Like when you graffiti, backpack hip hop inspires you to be creative like the music you're listening to.

I've always thought of artists such as KRS One, Pete Rock, Kweli, Premier, Jazzy Jeff, Mos Def, Common, Blackmoon, Rakim, A Tribe Called Quest, J Live, Large Pro, J5, Naughty by Nature, Dilla, etc. as backpack hip hop.

I know there is really no reason to put a name on that kind of hip hop, its a little to broad and difficult to understand, plus everyone probably thinks its something different.

everyone mentioned at one point or another were mainstream artists in the 80s,90s... just shows u how much music has changed into "wack"pack music.

da relic

 

[LDB]

Yeah I agree.
I think they do it to create peer groups, so people can feel like they belong to something exclusive.
Its another money making scheme thats been around in music for a while.

I watched old acid house become hardcore, then it became drum n bass, then it became jungle, then it was drum n bass again, now its called breakbeat along with another 20 names. It all gets confusing for old thc soaked braincells.

Yep.... exactly. Most times all it does is cause conflict within a genre. Hip Hoppers don't like backpackers, backpackers and hip hoppers don't like Rappers, Old skool doesn't like Nu skool. One thinks the others music is "bullshit" like already stated. Does nothing for the MUSIC. It's that old "divide and concur mentality". Easier to control what we do like that. I don't buy into it!

 

[KurtisRich]

Backpackers doesn't have an open mind on music. They only stick in the box and never step out. They are homos and like the bang each other up the ass.

 

[Relic]

Backpackers doesn't have an open mind on music. They only stick in the box and never step out. They are homos and like the bang each other up the ass.

So your a backpacker then?

I still dont get it..

 

[Pug]

This is backpack music...

 

[StressWon]

Backpackers doesn't have an open mind on music. They only stick in the box and never step out. They are homos and like the bang each other up the ass.

How does that even make sense?