The words
hep and
hip are of uncertain origin, with numerous competing theories being proposed. In the early days of jazz, musicians were using the
hep variant to describe anybody who was "in the know" about an emerging culture, mostly black, which revolved around jazz. They and their fans were known as
hepcats. By the late 1930s, with the rise of
swing,
hip rose in popularity among jazz musicians, to replace
hep. Clarinetist
Artie Shaw described singer
Bing Crosby as "the first hip white person born in the United States."
[1]
In 1939, the word
hepster was used by
Cab Calloway in the title of his
Hepster's Dictionary, which defines
hep cat as "a guy who knows all the answers, understands jive". In 1944, pianist
Harry Gibson modified this to
hipster[2] in his short glossary "For Characters Who Don't Dig Jive Talk," published in 1944 with the album
Boogie Woogie In Blue, featuring the self-titled hit "Handsome Harry the Hipster".
[3] The entry for
hipsters defined them as "characters who like hot jazz."
Hipsters were more interested in bebop and "hot" jazz than they were in swing, which by the late 1940s was becoming old-fashioned and watered down by "
squares" like
Lawrence Welk,
Guy Lombardo and Robert Coates.
In the 1940s, white youth began to frequent African-American communities for their music and dance. These first youths diverged from the mainstream due to their new philosophies of racial diversity and their exploratory sexual nature and drug habits.
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. I was hanging out with a friend in my neighborhood when for some reason we started playing and running around. Shyt was all fun and games until my boat ass shoe trips me, I fall , roll in the street and hit a parked car.
my shoe got scuffed and my knee got fukked.
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@this reply and 17 idiots dapped it
@ hitting a parked car though.
if you try to hoop in some forces tho.
