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Noun: "(slang) one who loves rap music"
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- 1998 — Beastie Boys, "Intergalactic", Hello Nasty:
- You've got gall, you've got guile / To step to me, I'm a rapophile
- 2009 — Patrick Bigsby, "Musicians and their need for big words", The Daily Iowan, 16 September 2009:
- When "Intergalactic" débuted in 1998, rapophiles rejoiced because the very inclusion of the word verified that rap was a dominant genre in mainstream music and word inventors such as the Beastie Boys were the cutting edge.
- 2012 — Teresa Wiltz, "Rap. Unwrapped.", Yale Alumni Magazine, May/June 2012:
- First, the trio put up a few of their favorite songs, with accompanying explanations, and then their friends put up their favorite songs, and so on, until they'd formed a community of like-minded rapophiles.
- 2012 — Daniel Brockman, " Adam Yauch and the Beastie Boys: Revenge of the Nerds", The Boston Phoenix, 7 May 2012:
- The Beasties would go on to be the ur-rap group, able to please the most unpleasable rapophile while also being the only rap album in plenty of people's record collection.