Basic to hip is the concept of digging.
how would you define dig?
man, like when you dig something.
It's like, you know, when
you dig some chick or some cat.
You know, or when you pick
To dig, then, would mean to like,
to understand, or to appreciate.
No, it's more like music.
You know what is a quarter tone?
Like, you get a note in there between
and that's its own sound, you know?
I mean, you can't call it
Like, if you know dig, and you say dig,
now you begin to see one of our problems
Each hip word or phrase carries
and implication of the speaker's background
and his involvement in hip society.
In other words, the phrase, I dig,
not only means I understand,
but I am a special sort of person who
understands in a very special way.
Yeah, that is exactly what I