He has no excuse. I was born in the late 80s but I knew who New Edition/BBD, Special Ed, H-Town, Keith Sweat, Rakim, Kool Moe Dee, G Rap, MC Shan, Fat Boys, Tribe Called Quest were, etc. I was either a baby or a little kid from 89 to 94 but I can tell you about at least 50% of the artists because my brother and my sisters played the music in their rooms all day. That’s what happens when you let in white boys who weren’t immersed in the culture growing up. He should’ve had somebody playing 90s and early 2000s music for him and telling about the artists. Brandy was the #1 Black R&B teen artist. Like cmon breh. That’s like a rapper saying ten years from now they didn’t know Chris Brown and Rihanna dated.