Afrika Bambaataa

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 2006

First Recording: 1980

Nominated: 2008   

Previously Considered? Yes  what's this?

Afrika Bambaataa
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Albums
✅Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys
✅500 Songs That Shaped Rock & Roll
Inducted into Rock Hall Projected in 2016 (ranked #243) .
R.S. Top 500 Songs (?)RankVersion
Planet Rock (1982)3952021
Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Zulu Nation Throwdown (1980)☆☊
Planet Rock (1982)☆☊
Looking For The Perfect Beat (1982)☆☊

Afrika Bambaataa @ Wikipedia

Will Afrika Bambaataa be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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A bigger omission, not even on this list, is GIL-SCOT HERON

Posted by jb on Monday, 12/9/2013 @ 14:19pm

Not rock

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, 08/27/2018 @ 02:19am

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is essentially the Popular Music Hall of Fame which 100 percent includes rap. He should get in in the next five years.

Posted by David on Tuesday, 07/16/2019 @ 12:06pm

David has a point. Perhaps it shouldn't be r n r hall if they going to put in non rock...

Uriah Heep UFO Nazareth and Uncle Ted are top of my list..

Posted by zrocker on Saturday, 09/24/2022 @ 06:39am

with all the abuse scandals around him.. hes not going in till after he dies, and that'll be only as an early influence. yes hes an extremely important part of rap history but no one is gonna wanna touch him with a 50 feet pole (coincidentily the same amount of distance he has to keep from little boys)

Posted by will m on Thursday, 03/7/2024 @ 08:03am

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