The new hard rock groups in the eighties had the same basic music style as those in the seventies. One band from the seventies helped carry over many of the same characteristics from that decade. The band was Aerosmith and in 1987 they broke new ground when they made “the song ‘Walk This Way,’ a widely successful collaboration between rappers Run-DMC and the white hard rockers” (Woog, 97). It helped bring back the music styles that had been separated for two decades. The music styles changed over those two decades but the fundamentals still laid true. Hip-hop music resembles the rhythm and blues of the fifties and the hard rock music mirrors the country music of the fifties also. Both genres evolved over the years to become what they were in the eighties and the collaboration in the song “Walk This Way” brought them back together.

Both rap and hard rock prospered in the nineties. The hard rock got heavier and the rap lyrics got more vulgar. The hard rock was known as heavy metal and hip-hop spread to the West Coast where it became gangster rap. Around the mid-nineties two very influential bands hit the music scene. The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Rage Against the Machine led the way for the new genre of music known as rapcore which combined the heavy metal sound blended with hip-hop and funk. “It’s no news that today’s most successful metal bands have been sampling elements of hip-hop, from DJ scratching to rapped verses” (Curtis, 31). These new rapcore bands used the style of rapping and record scratching, which is commonly used in hip-hop, in their songs to further the influence. As the decade got older more and more bands began to adopt this genre. Limp Bizkit, a band from Florida, became one of the forerunners to the new style. They made several songs with appearances by different rappers to push it even further. “Rap-metal glorified in its new clout as the sound of Mainstream American youth” (Sheffield, 52) was obvious at Woodstock ’99 which “featured groups pulling rap and heavy metal together in new ways” (Lamb, 13). The concert featured many of the day’s premiere rappers and rock artists. The genre of rapcore continues to spread into the new millenium.

Jimi Hendrix revolutionized rock and roll by his synthesis of black music and white hard rock. He was an original at playing blues but he was very clever in the way he distorted the sounds of the electric guitar “to make it fluid, flexible, and even melodic” (Ages, 377). The sixties altogether was a progression on what was created by R & B and rock. It was not a time of creating a new style of music.

Elvis grew up in the south and was introduced to the different southern music categories. He grew up around the country style of music and that became his musical focal point. He listened to the music growing up and played many country-western songs on his guitar. Elvis also led a very religious lifestyl

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