With 2013 finding Public Enemy inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone recently included a group of rappers among a list of artists slated to become eligible for the honors in the coming years. The article, which cites eligibility as beginning 25 years after an artist or band’s debut album, comes days before this year’s induction ceremony this Thursday (April 10) at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Alongside bands like Green Day, Weezer, and Radiohead, the Rolling Stone article kicks off with The Notorious B.I.G.’s upcoming eligibility beginning in 2019. Released in September of 1994, the rapper’s debut, Ready To Die, has gone on to receive a quadruple platinum rating and a Grammy nomination for the single “Big Poppa.” The rapper’s life and career was chronicled in the 2009 film Notorious.
Like Biggie, Outkast’s debut Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik was also released in 1994 and the duo’s career has included six Grammy awards since. Following up Southernplayalistic two years later with ATLiens and then Aquemini in 1998, the group released three more albums throughout the 2000s before focusing on their respective solo careers. Earlier this year the duo announced a string of tour dates including a spot co-headlining this month’s Coachella festival.
The first rapper slated to become eligible on Rolling Stone’s list is Tupac Shakur given the 1991 release of his first album 2Pacalypse Now. While the album has since been eclipsed in commercial popularity by later releases like All Eyez On Me and Me Against the World, the tracklist includes one of the rapper’s most ubiquitous songs in “Brenda’s Got A Baby.” Further representing the West Coast on Rolling Stone’s list, Dr. Dre will become eligible for induction in 2017, the year after his “California Love” collaborator.
Elsewhere on the list, Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) will turn 25 in 2018. The group’s 1993 debut went platinum in 1995 and has since doubled the feat. Recently, news of a single-copy album called The Wu – Once Upon a Time In Shaolin surfaced and RZA has since claimed the group has received an offer of $5 million. Speaking with HipHopDX in an article released last week, RZA explained the secrecy behind the body of work. “I kept it a secret because I want it to be what I want it to be which was, ‘Yo, this is a piece of art,’” he said. “It belongs in an art setting, venue, a museum, or a gallery. It’s as rare as any Picasso, any Van Gogh. It’s as rare—as I said in my article—as finding an Egyptian scepter. It’s as rare as the Mona Lisa. It’s rare, yo. It’s only one. We commissioned a great artist to design the box around it. It looks like a holy book might be in that box.”
Past Hip Hop artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame include Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and Run-DMC. Earlier this year, Kiss singer Gene Simmons, whose band’s original lineup is being inducted in this year’s ceremony, complained about the Hall’s inclusion of Hip Hop artists. “You’ve got Grandmaster Flash in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?” he said. “Run-DMC in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? You’re killing me! That doesn’t mean those aren’t good artists. But they don’t play guitar. They sample and they talk. Not even sing!”
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Lol..Rap is not rock..Rock & Roll hall of fame is for rock bands…smdh!!
Then Why is Madonna in it??
cuz niggas misheard and thought it was the cock sucking hall of fame
no Nas?
who cares
Your mother cares and so do you, Gene.
I agree with the names but they should add Nas too. Be sure to checkout thegrandreport, they have some good hip hop and viral videos on there
I don’t agree with having biggie smalls, because he only rapped about food and using the bathroom.
lol @ nas in the RnR HOF
Where’s Nas?? Biggie and Outkast, but no Nasir? Straight disrespectful!
nas hasnt got 25 years in the industry yet.
And Biggie Has?? Fuck Out here… Outkast and Biggie came out in 93/94, Nas been around since 90.
its cause nas is wack. ok. damn
Big is totally overrated. Puffy is still trying to push that filthy agenda.
Illmatic just turned 20
it has to be 25 years since the first studio album
Thats argonant of you to say, you can rock to anything.
While there’s no such thing as a perfect Hall of Fame, the R&R HOF has always been particularly garbage. Still no Yes or Deep Purple…just got Alice Cooper in like 2 years ago. Who could care less what they have to say about hip hop when their track record on actual rock is that bad?
ROLLING STONE’S OPINION ON RAPPERS IS IRRELEVANT.
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fuck big. fuck tupac. fuck all this trash.
Fuck Christopher Wallace aka Piggie Smalls!
if tupac was in front of me right now i would knock his fucking ass out
im sad the nigga died cuz it mean i cant destroy him in a street fight
I thought LL would be 1st..but im a Pac fan so its cool lol
sad day when being a pac fan is something niggas just openly admit
LOL. u a pac fan. tahts how i know u a fucboi
Nigga, u like Pac? What else you gon say, you like dick? In the booty???
The person dissing Tupac is the same person lol. They still mad at him for destroying his east coast rivals when he was living. They couldn’t get any money until after he died lol.
Tupacs music aggrivated and brought out my severe underlying mental health issues. Today is the first day I am living somewhat normal after a chaotic 2 years in which I almost died in the double digits, and almost ruined the lives of many other black people, men and women and children.
Stfu with your hating ass. You must be from NYC.
Officer Rick Ross put a real nigga behind bars#free trick
Again with that conspiracy shit. Trick Daddy bailed out the hour he got there, everythang is cool, so it’s no reason for you to be trolling.
Of course there’s a reason this is HHDX after all isn’t it?
“its cause nas is wack. ok. damn”
Nigga I luh you
2pac why? Most overrated rapper ever. G Rap, Krs, Biggie, Nas, LL, Kane, Big Pun, Big L and Rakim most be in the hof not some wannabe gangsta rapper like Pac who in his beginning was a cheap imitation of chuck D
Biggie hasn’t got a big enough body of work. Everyone else i fully agree with though. Rakim deserves to be there more than Pac, Biggie and WU IMO
Nas stole Rakim’s style, Biggie stole Chubb Rock’s style, Big Pun was a woman beater, G Rap married Superhead when she was 17 and L.L. made a song with that racist. Tupac, Big Daddy Kane, Rakim and KRS One deserve to make it though.
too much history out there for you to still be running around with that bs thought that nas stole ra’s style
No Gucci? Im really disappointed.
Ya that nigga gucci need to be in this hall of fame
these comments are filthy.
The disrespect to Pac in these comments smh
The disrespect to that old fat sloppy fake pimp drug lord Piggie Smalls is worse lol.
no Nas?
Illmatic is as important as Ready to God, and he made more albums
no drake no list no relevance. Drake needs to be on top of the list for people to give a fuck. Drake is way more important than these dead or irrelevent wanna bes.
lol your slow if you read it it says 25 years of there first album reading nee improment and drake is not as leadgendary as all of these mcs that help pave the way respect mush be given not to menteoin nas is my fav rapper so he should be up there in my opioin
Biggie Smalls should be inducted into the fraudulant rapper hall of fame, because he was nothing but a poser. He claimed to be a player, but Tupac and Treach fucked his main whores Faith and Kim. Puffy, Lance, Faith, Kim and Clive were robbing him blind. Lastly he rapped about not having food on the table, but his mom was a school teacher with a master’s degree lol.
Rap music is not Rock music, so it needs it’s own hall of fame. Gene Simmons was correct.
niggas saying gucci and rick ross should be up there is retarded why the hell did you not read what it said lol 25 years of first album and gucci is lame he cant rap
“eggs, cheese and welch’s grape”, huh? Who would rap such garbage lines?
None of these niggas make rock n roll or play guitar fuck them get your own hall of fame/
chuck berry would slap the leprosy out of you punk
Rap is the new Rock and Roll
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Biggie and 2Pac are only known as one of the best rappers of all time because they were killed. Overrated
Pac is not overrated, he’s literally a global icon. Biggie on the other hand is imo. 2 great albums though
I love that MCs are getting their due but how are they just gonna ignore the whole hardcore punk movement which were in many ways like the hip hop movement
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