Aware
Hip
Hip adjective - Having inside information.
Usage example: he wasn't hip to what was going on behind the scenes and was taken totally unawares by the company shake-up
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- A variant of Older Than They Think; as Sampling is big in hip-hop and rap, most fans are young and often they aren't aware of the song being sampled.
Source: Sampled Up - As a comment says, "The whole gangsta speak is as ridiculous as Teen Titan's 70's hip speak, the only difference being that the writers make Spidey aware that it's ridiculous."
Source: Jive Turkey
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