backpacker
n.— «There are a lot of places that we still didn’t get to in the video—Arkansas, Kentucky. And there is a big “backpacker” (or alternative) hip-hop scene that we didn’t get to. But that doesn’t take away from this video. It says exactly what needed to be said exactly when it needed to be said.» —“South on the rise in hip-hop world” by Tony Green MSNBC June 22, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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