What Is Hip (& Why Should We Care)?

The Assimilated Negro poses some questions. (EDITING: Just noticed those questions were posed over a yr. ago. Still good questions, & we've been wondering about the "wigger" deal, as mentioned below, for a while.) He may answer them too, but we figured it looked interesting enough to spontaneously link thereto, w/o reading. Hell, it's a good enough blog title to link to w/ no other basis. And it had Nate, commenting on hipsters: "... they’re just well read motherfuckers that like to party and use their intellect to make fun of others." Who, us? We're not hipsters, we're fringies.

Zitface, Li'l Kobe, & Dilrod: The Icy Hot Stuntaz:* Please, ask us sometime for our take on honkies appropriating Afro-American culture. We've appropriated more than our share, but in our salad days we didn't feel we had to act & dress exactly like Iceberg Slim, James Brown, Huey Newton or Flip Wilson to be "authentic." Today's young Euro-American morons, however, have to go the whole baggy pants, bling, & gang sign route. There's even a site devoted to "white chicks flashing gang signs." (Look it up yourself, Just Another Blog™ is lazier than any stereotype you got!) Is it 'cause Euro-Amer culcha these last two decades is even less "authentic" than it was in Just Another Blog's™ day? How could it have gotten worse? We haven't the energy to think about this, let alone write something (coherent or otherwise) about it, but the subject has been on the editorial mind lately. One of these days....

*Photo for illustrative purposes only. The Icy Hot Stuntaz are not known, meant or implied to be connected with anything to do w/ this article or anything else. May not be their legal names. Not valid in Washington State.