Hipsters are genetic hybrids.
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Also, to be clear, defamation in print is not slander. It’s libel.
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Burroughs used “hipster” in Junkie in 1953. (For example “The hipster bebop junkies never showed at 103rd Street” but it appears throughout.) I’d thought it was synonymous with (though predating) “beatnik.” But now I’m curious so I checked: Merriam-Webster traces its use back to 1940, while “hip” goes back to 1904, and “hep” to 1899. “Hepcat” goes back to 1937. But it doesn’t give specifics beyond the years of appearance (I might’ve guessed Lester Young for some of them).
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I guess that’s my crowd then, Hepcat Daddy’O…
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So you are saying he was a hipster, before it was cool?
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I wouldn’t worry, as long as you don’t hear him say “How do you do, fellow hipsters?”
Also: Hi, fellow Sewardite! 
(for real) (not a hipster though)
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It was scenesters where I come from.
Is it the same thing though?
Close enough, I suppose.
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Alright, I’ve got it.
A hipster is someone who is not you.
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They were in to Hipster Research before it was cool.
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I often listen to this after watching “Death in Paradise”, as the opening bars of the TV Theme really remind me of this.
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Thank you.
I don’t know what the technical term is (slipping in to a minor key or something), but it tickles me how the Specials can suck the sunlight out of anything. They were the perfect soundtrack to Thatcher’s Britain.
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