It was definitely rebellious to have a laptop and mix pop music.
I grew up around kids trying to create something out of nothing and movements rebellious to popular opinion.
Conceptual art was rebellious to its core, a banger in the face of what it saw as stuffy, elitist modernism.
In his view, America "is sort of the parent of the world, so we have to be stern but fair to people who are rebellious to us.
Alice Bhatti (named for his old editor) is a ferociously strong young woman: smart, independent, and rebellious to the point of recklessness.
As "the ultimate sartorial statement of wealth and opulence," she said in an e-mail message, "it's almost quite rebellious to everything else that is going on in the world".
He delivers unpleasant gags as if it's cool or rebellious to do so, as if we should all be perfectly happy with ourselves for laughing at "retards" and people with Aids.
It doesn't feel quite so rebellious to like The Most Evil Rapper Alive, as Zadie Smith dubbed Eminem in Vibe, if your mom is rapping along when he describes how he'd like to rape and kill his mom.
Phillip Carter, who researches sociolinguistics at Florida International University, and has a chapter on Trump and Hillary Clinton in a forthcoming book, said Trump's iconoclasm, New York accent and inappropriate language could seem rebellious to white, monolingual boys.
After the song's release, AllHipHop called it "an anthem in nature and rebellious to the core".
"The trouble with becoming a rebel is that if something's legal it's not very rebellious to take it," said Pearson.
