2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Announced and Their Odds - Vote your faves
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Among the potential inductees include Pearl Jam, Jane’s Addiction and Bad Brains.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have revealed their nominees for the class of 2017.
Please select up to five Nominees you think should be Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017.
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The full list of nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame include :
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Pearl Jam and Tupac have both been nominated during their first year of eligibility. Though it’s not Jane’s Addiction or Bad Brains’ first year eligible, this is the first time both have received a nomination. Yes have been nominated for induction twice before.
For the fifth consecutive year, the public will be given the opportunity to vote for who they want to see in the Rock Hall. However, the public vote as a whole will only count as one tiny fraction of the total votes, as more than 800 artists, historians and music industry insiders make up the Rock Hall’s voting body. After the public poll closes on Dec. 6, the five nominees with the highest number of fan ballads will each receive one extra vote going toward their overall total.
But Just like clockwork, outrage over the 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominations spilled onto social media.
Last year, it was for nominating (and later inducting) Straight Outta Compton rap collective N.W.A. This time, most of the online vitriol has been directed at another hip-hop trailblazer, Tupac Shakur, who just became eligible for induction 25 years after his first release (1991 debut album 2Pacalypse Now).
Some Twitter users argued that he shouldn't be nominated because "rappers aren't rockers" and it's "not the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame." But that's looking at the genre through a narrow spectrum, says Greg Harris, president/CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.
"Rock 'n' roll isn't just four guys with long hair and guitars," Harris says. "It encompasses all different genres, and at its core, it's an attitude and a voice that's pushing for change.
It's challenging the status quo and hip hop is clearly doing that in a way that all great strains of rock 'n' roll do."
If Shakur is voted into the Roll Hall, he would become the sixth hip-hop artist to be inducted, joining N.W.A. (2016), Public Enemy (2013), Beastie Boys (2012), Run-D.M.C. (2009) and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (2007). It's an honor that the late rapper deserves for his "simultaneously aggressive and vulnerable" lyrics, says Erik Nielson, an associate professor who teaches classes in hip-hop studies at the University of Richmond.
"History is going to regard Tupac not just as one of our great rappers or musicians, but also as one of America's great poets," Nielson says. "That might seem controversial to some, but many of us already recognize him as that.
If you see somebody like Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize in literature, we can expect that if people are reasonable in applying the same standards, you are going to start to see those types of recognitions for rappers."
You can visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s website to cast your votes.
The next Rock Hall induction ceremony will take place in April 2017 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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