Uhhhh…LL was contemporaries with all those guys you mentioned. Not sure how they were "earlier." RUN-DMC is the only group that came out earlier (by like two years) and EPMD and Eric & Rakim came later.

This got maaaaad play on Stretch & Bobbito's show on WKCR, which is as far from pop as you can get: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Except LL actually had respect within hip-hop. Look, I know the guy made a lot of questionable records, mostly later in his career, but dismissing his entire career with a "Ricky Nelson" comparison is incredibly disingenuous. Radio was both an acknowledge hip-hop classic AND was popular (much like RUN-DMC), Bigger &…

Such as? I mean, LL isn't my favorite rapper of all-time, but he was incredibly important to the genre for various reasons. I mean, I'd love Rakim, KRS, or Chuck to get the honor as well, but I wouldn't call LL getting the honor "pathetic."

Seriously, all these folks confused by LL Cool J's inclusion need to immediately get a copy of Radio and read up on just how important he was to hip-hop during that period. He was arguably the greatest rapper alive in 1985.

LL was FAR from Will Smith. And ask Cube, Dre, or Jay, and I'm positive those guys will tell you how influenced they were by LL.

People forget just how important LL was when he broke through in 1985. He was ENORMOUSLY influential, and he had a viable commercial and creative recording career for over a decade. Regardless, Radio and Mama Said Knock You Out alone give him a lifetime pass.

Yeah, when did people get so uptight here? Lots of monocles dropping all over the damn place.

Great band with one of the most hideously overplayed songs ever made.

Nah, "Orion" is an all-band instrumental, "Anesthesia" is pretty much all Cliff until Lars comes in at the very end with some drums.

An all-Prince wedding sounds glorious. I'd co-sign.

Runaway is a great choice. It's Del Shannon, though, not Dion.

And I seem to remember dude who sang that monstrosity milked the SHIT out of it, perhaps even more than the Macarena. There were like fifty-billion (not an exaggeration) versions/tie-ins of that thing.

"What about 'Thick As A Brick'"?

I hear apparently a lot of people are blissfully unaware of how creepy that song is.

For a genre that supposedly hated guitar solos, there sure are a lot of killer guitar solos in punk/hardcore. "Banned In D.C." anyone?

Big up for the Cows mention!

If the audiobook is as amazing as "The Infamous (Prelude)," I'm in….

It's like they got confused, but instead of confusing Prodigy with the British group, they confused him with dude from South Central Cartel.

Just wait till it happens to rappers who share the same name. Gonna be some confusion with Nas' boy AZ and the AZ from Mobstyle….