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A man walked up to me the other day and said, “Hey bro’, you listen to rap music?” I replied with a yes; the man then tried to sell me his CD, but being the broke college student I am I had no cash on me. Once I told him this he replied with, “Fo’ shizle”. So of course I replied back to him with “Fo’ shizle my nizle” not knowing what this means. This makes it apparent that this is a different kind of slang; it’s a totally different language. The role of language in popular culture has changed over the past few decades, and it will keep on changing. Every different culture has a different way the talk, and a different way they describe experiences or other things. For example, someone from England would say they took the lift up to my sixth floor apartment, when I would say that I took the elevator up. Also, my girl friend that is originally from Philadelphia calls what we call sprinkles jimmies. Many people have neve