raptivist

Definitions

A rapper who is involved in political and/or social activism.

slang

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.””

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