What's not here is fashion, academic theory, overt identity politics or hipness, except to the degree that some art or other is always hip somewhere.
"They were always streetwise, they were always hip," Mr. Holden said.
She's always hip". But Barbie has never headed a 60,000-member organization of engineers.
Awesome music is always hip; it's a meaningless term thrown around by people who don't have anything to say".
Around the same time, a friend who is always hip to good music emailed me a song of hers that he thought I would enjoy called "It Can't Be You" and I loved it immediately.
They were always hip-hop outsiders: white, Jewish and funny in a genre where hard-headed ghetto authenticity was and is the dominant image.
[Onyx] was into the deep house like Larry Levan, we was up in Mars club, but we was always the hip hop kids in those clubs.
"Les Halles is central: there are lots of different people passing through, and it was always a hip-hop neighbourhood.
White was always, effortlessly, super-hip and especially so in the comparatively conservative worlds of theatre and cinema.
