What’s hep right now

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  • by Frank Paynter on February 26, 2024

    Friend Feed. Don’t ask me for details. I just report the news.

    The jive is hip, don’t say hep
    That’s a slip of the lip, let me give you a tip
    Don’t you ever say hep it ain’t hip, NO IT AIN’T
    It ain’t hip to be loud and wrong
    Just because you’re feeling strong
    You try too hard to make a hit
    And every time you do you tip your mitt
    It ain’t hip to blow your top
    The only thing you say is mop, mop, mop
    Keep cool fool, like a fish in the pool
    That’s the golden rule at the Hipster school
    You find yourself talking too much
    Then you know you’re off the track
    That’s the stuff you got to watch
    Everybody wants to get into the act
    It ain’t hip to think you’re “in there”
    Just because of the zooty suit you wear
    You can laugh and shout but you better watch out
    Cause you don’t know what it’s all about, man
    Man you ain’t hip if you don’t get hip to this hip and hep jive
    Now get it now, look out
    Man get hip with the hipster, YEAH! Got to do it!
    — Harry the Hipster, 1947

    Rock on…

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