Someone who 'keeps it real' why they bop (walk) the streets. As the streets, indeed the world in general, becomes populated with more 'fakers' 'haters' and 'wannabes' the true bopper is a somewhat dying breed. Those who are remaining represent the real and refuse to go under the submerging forces of those with less integrity. One who maintains in the face of much hatred.

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods