Citations:raptivist

Noun: "(slang) a rapper who is involved in political and/or social activism"

 * 1992, Staci Bonner, album review, Spin, June 1992, page 72:
 * It's the words that count here, and the preachy wail "raptivist" [Sister] Souljah provides doesn't add up to much.
 * 1995, Peter J. Caulfield, "Teaching Rhetoric as a Way of Knowing", in Left Margins: Cultural Studies and Composition Pedagogy (eds. Karen Fitts & Alan W. France), State University of New York Press (1995), ISBN 9781438402932, page 163:
 * 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.
 * 1997, Norman Kelley, Black Heat, Cool Grove Press (1997), ISBN 9781887276030, page 94:
 * Mbooma Shaka was the new Nation. A very charismatic former rapper, or raptivist, and very dynamic street leader, his street credentials were impeccable:
 * 1997, Sia Michel, album review, Spin, August 1997, page 111:
 * A savvy raptivist, Wyclef's reaching for both pop superstardom and rebel cred.
 * 2001, Charise Cheney, "Representin' God: Masculinity and the Use of the Bible in Rap Music", in African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Structures (ed. Vincent L. Wimbush), Continuum (2001), ISBN 9780826413765, page 804:
 * For example, in his controversial 1989 release The Devil Made Me Do It militant Oakland-based raptivist Paris traces his black nationalist roots to the 1940s and the founding of the Temple of Islam, which would later become known as the Nation of Islam.
 * 2004, Jon Dolan, "More New Music to Hear Now", Spin, March 2004, page 35:
 * 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.
 * 2008, Marcus Reeves, Somebody Scream!: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power, Faber & Faber (2008), ISBN 9780571211401, page 111:
 * Just as Public Enemy's raptivist posturing convinced a growing hip-hop nation that hardcore rappers could be righteous racial messiahs,
 * 2009, M. K. Asante, Jr., It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation, St. Martin's Griffin (2009), ISBN 9781429946353, unnumbered page:
 * 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.”