Run DMC and Bobby Womack Make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Written by DJ Special Blend from Chicago on January 15, 2009
“I seen ya jockin’ J.C. cause he’s got a Mercedes, and you know about his ladies, and all his babies…”
A line from “Dumb Girl” by Run DMC off of the album Raising Hell. The artist of the first Hip-Hop album to go platinum will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Joseph “Run” Simmons, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels and the late legendary Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell will officially be forever remembered along side of other music legends.
“I’m a rap dude, I’m an MC from Hollis (a neighborhood in New York’s borough of Queens), just rockin’ the mic, and to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with the Beatles, and (Bob) Dylan, and the rock ‘n’ roll gods? It’s ridiculous! Ridiculous in a good way,” says MC Darryl Mac per AP.
The one and only Bobby Womack will also get a well deserved welcome to the Hall to be among the musical greatest.
“This is just the greatest, I’m extremely happy,” Womack said. “It proves that, if you’re blessed to be able to wait on what’s important to you, a lot of things will change in life.”
Metallica will also be inducted. Anyone near my age knows that that is a no brainer.
Wanda Jackson got a nod for the early influence category, and the sidemen inductees are session musician Spooner Oldham and two of Elvis Presley‘s musicians — drummer D.J. Fontana and bassist Bill Black.
