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Posted by Dave
Rap News Network
11/28/2005 5:17:46 PM
Tags and topics realted to this article include Russell Simmons. Hip Hop and Rap.
Two rap and hip-hop icons Monday bemoaned the lack of rappers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's class of 2006, but said it could help the genre stay pure.
The Hall announced its 700 voters chose to induct jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, British punk pioneers the Sex Pistols, southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd, new wavers Blondie and British heavy metal icons, Black Sabbath.
Hip-hop's most likely candidate, Grandmaster Flash, was passed over for the second consecutive year, the Los Angeles Times said.
"It's blasphemous," Public Enemy frontman Chuck D said of the omission. "We can't afford to have another piece of black art history go undocumented."
Producer and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons called rap the "most important cultural phenomenon this country has ever exported." Simmons scolded voters for refusing to recognize the genre, but at the same time pointed to a silver lining in the snub.
"As soon as jazz, blues and rock 'n' roll became accepted by the mainstream, they suddenly became ... less shiny," he said. "If the trend of mainstream acceptance killing musical genres and cultural phenomena continues, hip-hop can stay as far away from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as possible."
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