I think its a travesty that so many R&B legends are getting past up for the HOF. I mean come on! Can somebody explain why these artists are not in the hall yet: Kool and the Gang, The Ohio Players, The Chi-Lites, The Whispers, Rick James, Cameo, The Dramatics, The Commodores. and Barry White. They are all eligible and should be in there. Is there any way we can write or talk to the committee who votes on this? Will they ever get in? What do you think about this? And is there anybody you think deseves to be in there i maybe left out?

Rick James and Barry White should be in there.
I guess Stevie and James Brown already are(?)

where can we find a list of those artists who have been inducted?

SoulAlive said:

http://www.rockhall.com/h...uctees.asp

RipHer2Shreds said:

thanks

And after having a look at that list, I'd say there are plenty of R&B folk in there. They've only been inducting people for 20 years.

RipHer2Shreds said:

I doesn't really bother me at all if a whole lot of R&B artists don't make it in there because I really don't expect a lot of them to ever make it in there. If you notice back in the day, most of the strongest and hardest funk bands never got played on pop stations and the pop crowd never heard of them, I don't expect the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to have ever heard of them either.

With the exception of Prince, the best funk is known to the R&B crowd only. I think they need to come up with a Funk Hall of Fame and throw the finger at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Politics.

It shouldn't take a difference though, becoz R&R Hall won't make 'em or break 'em.

Forget About R&B, there are a lot of rock bands that are still not in the R&R Hall Of Fame yet!!




Hell, even our boy Prince make it before THEY did!
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TonyVanDam said:

(hard)rock gets treated even worse than R&B!
However,AC/DC and Aerosmith are in the hall,why not Kiss???
ZZ Top is in it! Kiss NOT