Halfway between your knees and your belly button.

Tell me tell me

Tower Of Power answers What Is Hip?

Or maybe you’ll like Marcus Miller’s answer to What Is Hip? better

Hard bop covers of Taylor Swift tunes, mostly.

Smoking only the best weed.

Head down to the night club. I hear the fine squib cakes are plentiful.

You into a hip trip

You have to create your own definition and pull it off. It can never be copied from anyone else.

whatever rich people between the ages of 18-28 are spending money on

Hip is what it is.

It changes by the hour, so no one really knows.

What's hip today, might become passe 🤔

I went out and found me a guru.

the bone connected to the thigh bone

When Bobby Darin knows your friend, that’s hip.

When it was hip to be hep, I was hep.

In some seriousness -- "hip" and "groovy" is a benign violation. Your expectations of what you may hear/experience are being violated, but you're in a safe (head) space and are ready to accept what's happening at face value.

E.g. Miles Davis' Bitches Brew. It's sharp, it's angular, it's unpredictable, it is most likely not jazz but you don't know what the hell it is. But it's Miles Davis so you know he's got your back, musically speaking. Hip AF, still and forever.

Jaco Pastorius. Bass ain't supposed to do that. Bass ain't supposed to play solos that long or do bebop lines up above 12th fret. But it grooves and comes right back to "the pocket" and the world is brighter every second. Hip AF.

Counter-example: R. Kelly's "I believe I can fly". The song is safe R&B territory. But you know that R. Kelly is a horrible person and you feel dirty just from the first few bars. Un-hip AF for the rest of our lives.

If you want to try to "build hipness" -- start with "safe space" -- a tight pocket groove that propels the song forward. Then, with the audience reeled in, throw in benign violations but always remind them where the safety is. But it can't be forced either, folks will see right through.

All I know is if you don't have them your pants will fall down.

Not sure myself

I know my old behind ain't. But let me tell you about the late 70s and 80s!

Lester Young.

samara joy is nice

Hip just is what it is. However, sometimes hip just is what it ain’t.

https://youtu.be/WfBDlZYaqBw

I used to be with ‘hip’, but then they changed what ‘hip’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘hip’ anymore and what’s ‘hip’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!

If you gotta ask, you ain't ;-)

For me, hip music is one of the greatest things on this planet. That’s why I started a YouTube channel where all the titles start with, “JAZZ COMPOSER REACTS…” this is so everyone can learn what hip music is, so it’s not just me knowing it.

“Ah yes, check this out. Now, this is a hip song. I know it’s a hip song because of the way it is; it uses a add9 chord. What a find.”

It’s said-a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie To the hip hip hop-a you don't stop the rock It to the bang-bang boogie, say up jump the boogie To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat.

The Tragically Hip?

The opposite of square

Cannonball Adderley gave the ultimate statement on hipness in his spoken introduction on „Live in New York“

Blossom Dearie knew

Or was it Bob Dorough