Amid a reckoning at the Hall of Fame, Missy Elliott made history as the first-ever female rapper to be inducted.
But as Love also noted, this year alone more women were nominated than at any time in the organization’s 40-year history. Change is coming, but slowly and somewhat begrudgingly at that. And it’s leaving some people in the past, for better or worse. In September, Jann Wenner—the cofounder and former editor of Rolling Stone who helped establish the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1983, which he ruled over for the next 40 years—gave an interview in The New York Times.
Before the show began, John Sykes, who took over from Wenner as chairman in 2020, gave remarks about the hall of fame, calling it “music’s highest honor,” and describing rock and roll not as a genre but as an attitude—the common thread amongst the night’s honorees. And he’s right. It’s an attitude, a distinct point of view, that all of the honored artists have been able to articulate across decades and genres that have tied them together like an invisible guitar string.
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