So a friend of mine told me people are kinda mad the Patti Smith and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five might make it to the Rock Hall of Fame.

what do you think?

I personally have nothing against it wasn't the hall of fame created to honor music. And also since your career had to be at least 25 years old it means that artist from the 80's are going to nominated more frequently. So I think it will be cool seeing punk and early rap artist get honored for their work.

I could see why some people would not want Grandmaster Flash in, but wtf Patti Smith, why wouldn't anybody want to see Patti Smith get in.

Truthfully,they should've named it the "Music Hall Of Fame",since some of the artists they are honoring could not be considered "Rock" by any stretch of the word...and some have never had any influence upon the Rock genre.

If they had named it the Music Hall Of Fame,they could then have honored people according to the genre of music they performed...which would be more appropriate in my opinion.

I agree, especially since I am unaware of any Rap, Country, Pop, Hall of Fames.

Agree they should have renamed it, but personally I am very happy about Patti Smith's induction!

I don't see the problem with Patti Smith at all, but Grandmaster Flash I don't agree with. This is going to be a trend though since rap and hip-hop really broke through in the 80's...

I'm pissed because only Sammy and Mike showed up to accept the award for Van Halen. And that Velvet Revolver butchered their songs.

Well, I'm not too surprised about most of Van Halen not showing up.

I agree with Wolf, they should make it more general, open to more Genre's so the legends of all genres can be acknowledged.

My preferred music is Rock, but that doesn't mean that I don't appreciate any good music.

I wanna see Slayer at the Grand Ole Opry