blipster
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of black + hipster, influenced by blip + -ster.
Noun
[edit]blipster (plural blipsters)
- An ethnically black (African-American) hipster.
- 2009 June 29, Robert Lanham, “Look at This Fucking Hipster Basher”, in The Dallas Morning News:
- You get the sense that if Jimi Hendrix were to show up in Echo Park today, he’d be publicly mocked in a style section piece on blipsters for wearing a feathered fedora.
- 2011, Patrice Evans, Negropedia: The Assimilated Negro's Crash Course on the Modern Black Experience, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 182:
- Blipsters hate hip-hop unless they are spoofing it (Das Racist), turning it into a mash-up (Danger Mouse), updating it to sound more techno-punk (Santigold, Ninjasonik), or getting it from an unlikely source (e.g., Swedish songstress Lykke Li covering A Tribe Called Quest).
References
[edit]- The Rise of the Black Hipster: What happens when the hybrid hipster culture hits black America? The Root, by Dayo Olopade, May 19, 2009