Hip hop music and culture in Italy is an evolution of the way in which Italian youth make known their dissatisfaction for the current social and economic issues that are presented to them in everyday life. While the size of the Italian hip hop movement was modest at first there was a tipping point in the creation of hip hop as an alternate form of expression. In the January of 1990 when protests demonstrating the controversy over a law that involved the private sponsorship of universities caused protesters to create the centri sociali. It is at these underground locations that the left-winged radicals in which hip hop was embraced would hone their graffiti and rapping skills in order to present their viewpoints through different media outlets. This movement of a few Italians that disapproved of the authority that ruled over them is what sparked a hip hop culture in Italy. It continued a political movement that was last occupied by punk rock, and the war of youth against authority that began before hip hop seems like it will end well after hip hop makes its way out of Italy. The music of Italian hip hop itself is derived from Jamaican ragga and dance hall; it incorporates samples, scratches, and break beats from world music, traditional Mediterranean folk music, and African American and Latino hip hop. However the culture of hip hop began with a musical genre that has no musical influence on hip hop in Italy, punk rock.