BalladMusician, you're confused. Hip Hop and rap are Not 2 different styles of music.
And Kevin, no, we young people have not forgotten about the hip hop impact from back then. Even if we weren't alive back then, it's been explained to us MANY times. The best artists pay respect to those original hip hop creators in full, but they are also not commercial enough to make their way into your spectrum of listening. Actually it sounds like nothing past 1990 makes it into your spectrum of listening, and that's a little sad.