NWA to receive Rock Hall honour

Compton rap group N.W.A. and classic rock band Chicago are among the list of acts to be honored at the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony in April.

Bands who were eligible this year that didn’t make the cut include Nine Inch Nails (which is a surprise), The Cars, Chaka Khan, Chic, The J.B.’s, Janet Jackson, Los Lobos, The Smiths and The Spinners. In 2015, thanks largely to the group’s biopic, “Straight Outta Compton” – and belatedly scoring their first top 40 hit on Billboard – that changed.

Chicago is nominated to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. According to a statement issued by the foundation, inductees were “chosen by more than 800 voters of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, as well as the aggregate results of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s online fan vote”.

Chicago’s original seven members will be inducted on April 8 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn – Loughnane and remaining bandmates keyboardist Robert Lamm, trombonist James Pankow, saxophonist Walter Parazaider, along with former bassist Peter Cetera, who left during 1985, drummer Danny Seraphine, who quit in 1990, and the late guitarist Terry Kath, who fatally shot himself during a game of Russian roulette in 1978. Don’t tell anybody.’ I don’t think I’ve gotten any official thing. The group will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year. “It’s just exciting that the group as a whole gets recognised by the whole industry as Hall of Fame-worthy”.

Ice Cube, one of the group’s key members and a proficient lyricist reflected on what the inductions means for him personally and the group as a whole, “It means that the group’s mark is kind of solidified”. It will air on HBO in the spring. “I kind of enjoyed having people complain that I wasn’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame more than I think I’ll like being in it. I’m sure now that I’m in it, I’ll be forgotten about and nobody will have anything to complain about”.

“When we started N.W.A, I couldn’t have imagined this”, Dr. Dre adds.

Despite fronting the Steve Miller Band for the past five decades, Rolling Stone also reports that Steve Miller will accept the award by himself.