As much as I hate to say this I will have t agree with Claw... P.Diddy WILL get in the hall as a non performer... Due to the effect he had on 90's urban music.

Posted by Michael on Sunday, 05/11/2014 @ 18:19pm

He's a sampler! No samplers allowed!! He sucks! Keep him away from the Rock Hall. What a joke! I hate him more than I hate Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, U2, R.E.M, and the B-52s.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 01/24/2015 @ 16:08pm

Rap is overrated garbage. I hate defenders saying it reflects the Afro-American community. There are many blacks who don't embrace it. Gospel is probably more broadly popular. In Diddy's case, as with other rappers, music is a stepping stone and a springboard to greater things, including acting. Even they know how much it sucks.

Posted by Sexxxmachine on Tuesday, 04/28/2020 @ 04:36am

P. Diddy will get in because he had 5 #1 & 5 #2 pop hits in the 90's and produced....
1991
Jodeci – Forever My Lady
1992
Mary J. Blige – What's the 411?
1993
Mary J. Blige – What's the 411? Remix
1994
The Notorious B.I.G. – Ready to Die
TLC – CrazySexyCool
Mary J. Blige – My Life
1995
Faith Evans – Faith
1996
Various Artists – High School High (soundtrack)
Total – Total
New Edition – Home Again
MC Lyte – Bad as I Wanna B
The Isley Brothers featuring Ronald Isley and Angela Winbush
1997
Boyz II Men – Evolution
The Notorious B.I.G. – Life After Death
KRS-One – I Got Next
Puff Daddy and the Family – No Way Out
Brian McKnight – Anytime
Mariah Carey – Butterfly
Busta Rhymes – When Disaster Strikes
LL Cool J – Phenomenon
Mase – Harlem World
Jay-Z – In My Lifetime, Vol. 1
1998
The LOX – Money, Power & Respect
Aretha Franklin – A Rose Is Still A Rose
R. Kelly – R.
Godzilla: The Album

1999
Jennifer Lopez – On the 6
Puff Daddy – Forever
The Notorious B.I.G. – Born Again

Posted by Paul Battaglia on Tuesday, 02/8/2022 @ 14:54pm

Rap is not Rock and Roll. Rappers in the HOF made the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a joke.

Posted by Tim Olsen on Tuesday, 11/22/2022 @ 09:56am

The argument for rap is pretty straightforward. The father of rap is funk. The father of funk is James brown, part of the inaugural rock hall class. Therefore rap is a descendant of rock and roll.
Plus rap doesn't have its own hall of fame and needs the acknowledgment. Unlike country whose hall of fame is even more successful than rocks and their artist don't need the extra acknowledgment.

Posted by B on Monday, 01/30/2023 @ 16:46pm