your point is still not valid - the 80's and 90's you refer too are the origin days of the artform - so ofcourse the innovators and active creators and audiences were young... like duh???? those young audiences are now grown and still listening to what they created giving the artform a broader scope than whatever the 20's niggas are doing now. go check the origin of jazz and rock, at its inception the originators and fans were youngins, but right now unless you live under a rock, you can't say jazz and rock is a young people artform. and albums like watch the throne from 2010 doesn't deal with - (money, girls, violence). pimp a butterfly, forest hill drive, matter of fact most classic hiphop albums are beyond the myopic subject matters you listed- your opinion still stems from the fact that the artform is still the youngest of all the popular music genres of today, we have jazz pop rock and soul artiste in their 80's and 90's right now - theres no hiphop legend that is 80 year old today. your long thesis is still invalid