Blend ofrapper +activist.
raptivist (pluralraptivists)
- (slang) Arapper who is involved inpolitical and/orsocialactivism.
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,page163: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”, inSpin,page35:Born in a Peruvian military hospital and raised in Harlem, Immortal Tech is a fatigues-rockingraptivist 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 legendaryraptivist 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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