Danny, you really gotta get out more bro. Its only in NYC that you don't get too much exposure to rock, and thats if you hang with 'gangstas.' Hell i didn't really start listening to rock until maybe 5 years ago, because i was never exposed to it. In NYC, you get 92.3 Krock and 104.3 Classic Rock, where as you have hot 97, z100, KTU, power 105.1, and a bunch of all reggaeton stations. You leave the state (or even travel upstate) and the picture is completely reversed. You can ask P-Funk if he remembers. We went to the empire games together (poughkeepsie, upstate NY) and once we got to a certain point the radio stations switched and every station was rock or classic rock, and i only really remember hearing like 1 rap song the whole time we were up there.
Bottom line, listen to these folk bro. The world is way bigger than your 'hood.'