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...started a snowball effect that led into the Seventies and Eighties cultures of “Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll”. Here is where it gets good; music found new meaning in the lives of Americans and the world. Music began to protest things like war and political issues for example the environment. America was in an uproar and music played a key part. The nineties began the advance of Hip-Hop, Rap and Pop music. In a culture of fast pace “dog eat dog” type attitudes many new music styles came about. People became inspired to branch out and create their own kinds of music and dance. Dance clubs and electronic music began to make their way on to the scenen. A vast new kind of music called Rap/Hip-Hop made a huge impact on the culture of America. The words and behavior of rap reflect a way of life, an attitude or a “culture”. Most of this music talks about the streets or growing up poor and how the artist has made it big now. Not to really to support this music but it has made a huge impact on my generation. A whole hip-hip culture has sprung up from this urban movement. Apparatuses in this culture have come about to create things like a style of fashion, and its own sort of dialect called Ebonics, All this from a movement of music started by African American cultures twenty or thirty years ago. Music and life run parallel, music affects my life in many ways. My mood depicts my music, if you catch my drift. When I was younger I used to listen to a lot of rap/hip-hop music, I still do today, but I have learned to enjoy other kinds of music also. My kind of music is progressive, mellow and me being as high strung as I am, this helps me to relax take the bull by the horns. My favorite quote is in this song I once heard by Jack Johnson “ ...