Posted on 12/20/2016 6:32:45 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
NEW YORK (AP) The late rapper Tupac Shakur and Seattle-based rockers Pearl Jam lead a class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees including folkie Joan Baez and 1970s favorites Journey, Yes and Electric Light Orchestra.
The rock hall, in downtown Cleveland, also said Tuesday it would give a special award to Nile Rodgers, whose disco-era band Chic failed again to make the cut after its 11th time nominated.
Baez will be inducted only months after her 1960s paramour, Bob Dylan, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Link Wray belongs in the hall.
Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Pete Townsend, Keith Moon, Jimmy Page, Jerry Garcia, and others in the hall could easily make the case. They all idolized the man. Pete says it was Link who’s music convinced him to pick up the guitar.
Bruce Springsteen wrote “Fire” for him.
The “Hall” may have cool memorabilia but Hard Rock Indian Casino Burgers has cooler stuff (like Hendrix’s Purple Haze vest) because that chain was acquiring items long before the others.
Where is the Can't Write A Decent Rhyme hall of fame?
RAP: Retarded African Poetry.
I’m spinning ‘Fragile’ on my turntable as I type this, just waiting for “Heart of the Sunrise” to begin. Congratulations to Yes - they’d deserve induction if they’d never done anything besides ‘Fragile’. And congrats to Pearl Jam - my least favorite of the Seattle grunge bands, but still a good band.
i enjoy rap as well- like LL Cool J, Ghetto Boys and even some Public Enemy back in the day...but they don’t belong in the R&R HOF...
I nominate “Norton” Art Carney for the Hippity Hop Rapper Hall of Fame.
Here’s his 1954 recording of Night Before Christmas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZQoeKc0LL4
Also, Tom Waits belongs in that Hip Hop Hall of Fame:
1976 Pasties and a G-String
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH51fbzXg_E
tupac got all assassinated
Amazing! I was just thinking, they put in Too-pack, but not Johnny Rivers?
Hall of Shame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=379SyVbbj34
Grand Funk Railroad, Homer’s Favorite Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXKmsvRXE4A
Homer Simpson finds the oldies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjiyq25crAQ
Tupac a gang member... What is a Pearl Jam? They look to be grunge headbangers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxKWTzr-k6s
The following description is from a pro-Communist website...
ASSATA (aka Joanne Chesimard)
Perhaps the most wanted woman in the history of the United States.
Assata Shakur/Joanne Chesimard, was questionably arrested and sentenced for killing a cop in the infamous 1973 New Jersey Turnpike shootup of a car carrying Shakur, and two other Black Panthers, one of whom was also killed. Assata received three bullets in the attack. Sentenced to Life, she escaped in 1979 from maximum security prison in NJ to eventually emerge in Cuba under Fidel Castros protection as a political exile. Assatas [Joanne Chesimard] writings and presence in Cuba have brought her a huge following as an icon, a heroine the Che Guevera of Black Liberation a freedom fighter to thousands of young peoples throughout the world. The State of New Jersey still holds a million dollar bounty on her headwanted dead or alive!
Directed by Fred Baker
Agree 100%. I’m thrilled to see Yes.
Rapper 'Ludacris'
Lyrics to Ludacris' Obama rap song, "Obama Is Here":
"Hey... I'm back on it
like I just signed my record deal, yeah the best is here
The Bentley Coupe paint is drippin wet, it got sex appeal
Never shoulda hated, you never shoulda doubted him
With a slot in the President's iPod, Obama shouted him
Said I handled my biz and I'm one of his favorite rappers
Well give Luda a special pardon if I'm ever in the slammer
Better yet put me in office, make me a Vice President
Hillary hated on you so that bitch is irrelevant
Now Jesse talkin slick and apologizin for WHAT~?!
If you said it then you MEANT it how you want it, head or gut
And all you other politicians tryin to hate on my man
Watch us win majority vote in every STATE on my man
You cain't stop what's 'bout to happen, we 'bout to make history
The first black President it's destined and it's meant to be
The threats ain't fazin us, the nooses or the jokes
Get off your ass black people it's time to get out and vote
Paint the White House black and I'm sure that's got 'em terrified
McCain don't belong in ANY chair unless he's paralyzed
Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally handicapped
Ball up all of his speeches and just throw 'em like candy wraps
Cause what you talkin I hear nothin even relevant
And you the worst of all 43 Presidents
Get out and vote, or the end'll be near
And the world is ready for change cause Obama is here
YEAHHH! Cause Obama is here
The world is ready for change cause Obama is here
Yeahhhh, cause Obama is here
Say world is ready for change cause Obama is here
Hey!
http://lyrics.rapbasement.com/Ludacris_Politics%20(Obama%20Is%20Here)_lyrics_2129.html
YouTube video: Ludacris - "Obama Is Here":
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=ludacris+obama+is+here&aq=0&oq=ludacris+obama
I mean Gil Scott Heron should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame before Tupac. Heron had style and meat. Of course maybe he is already in...I never really pay attention to the RnRHOF
“Finally Yes get in.”
Exactly. That they haven’t been until now has only decreased the credibility of the RHOF.
Really a shame Chris Squire won’t be there.
Rap and Grunge, an insult to the ears. One of the blessings about going deaf, barely hear the crap at the gym.
Use to wear earplugs or deploy a FM channel jammer for peace.
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