The 2017 Kennedy Center honorees: Actress, dancer and choreographer Carmen de Lavallade, singer-songwriter and actress Gloria Estefan, hip-hop artist LL COOL J, musician and record producer Lionel Richie, and television writer and producer Norman Lear.





He's 49 years old. That's too young for this honor. What exceptional thing has he done that he gets awarded with this 20 years too early. Ridiculous.

There's already a thread about this: http://prince.org/msg/8/445601

LL deserves the honor and he is HUGELY HUGELY underrated. He has made a huge impact on Hip Hop and Hip Hop culture when it first became mainstream. He is one of the original pioneers of the genre. He deserves the Kennedy Honors. The artists that are actually overrated yall make a bunch a threads about and praise and the artists that are underrated yall call overrated and hardly even recognize on this site, I will never understand it...

[Edited 8/18/17 5:56am]