there is much more nostalgia for eras people were never alive for cos we can see so much more of what it was like, so there is that to measure it against and to get wistful about.

but for most teenagers, i bet they love gucci mane, currency, and whoever else just as much as i loved nas, mobb deep etc.

for neo soul, thats prob different, cos it invites comparisons with the past...

but with music that sounds so totally of the now (even if it recalls the 80s/90s in various ways too), eg rihanna, ne-yo, pitbull (lol), drake or whoever, i think people get a lot of enjoyment out of that stuff. lil wayne fans arent sitting there thinking, damn i wish kool keith was on cash money.

(well apart from me lol)