Mr. Tongue is Disgusted by Nigga Rap in the Rock Hall

He's more than Blue Gene. He's seeing Red. Say what you want about the KISSER, once in a while the opinionated lizard spits fire for a good reason.

How does (c)RAP get into the ROCK Hall of Fame? Because wimpy whites don't want to upset gangstas and riot-prone morons. The same reason an awful rant about how hard it is to be a PIMP ended up with an Academy Award for best SONG.

Rock has saluted its R&B roots. Usually, it's gotten nothing back but a kick in the balls. Think about Chuck Berry suing John Lennon, or Michael Jackson stealing away Paul McCartney's songs.

The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Led Zep...they all turned unpalatable shitty delta blues garbage and a lot of illiterate howling into an art form. Fans of those guys don't listen to Howling Wool and Blind Lemon Whiskeysour and the fabulous Robot Johnson.

Gene makes a great point. Where's the reverse? There is none. Hendrix isn't in the Hip-Hop Hall. (And what IS with that silly childish bunny-dance name, HIP-HOP? Are niggers also faggots?)

If you go to FARCEBOOK, you'll find plenty of white morons scolding their white moron friends: "Check this Robert Johnson song on GooTube! This is where Clapton got it from, stealing from the black man!" Or: "Here's Nina Simone. Oooh, she SUFFERED because of Whitey. I wish I was black. I would've married her, she's so great." Oh, FUCK OFF and get real, the bitch wouldn't want YOU because you're WHITE.

What you never see is blacks telling their friends, "Check this GooTube clip of Artur Rubinstein. Man, he plays the piano faster than Fats Domino and Art Tatum combined. Props to this Rubinstein cat. Take a break from rap and try some Chopin."

NEVER happens, because blacks have no guilt about this shit. They have their own self-entitled reverse-racism. They don't feel any guilt about not being educated on classical music or country music. But white idiots have to solemnly scold each other for NOT listening to Native American flutes all day, or understanding that Bessie Smith knew the BLUES and no white woman could EVER know the BLUES.

Genya Ravan was much better than Janis Joplin. Yet Etta James sneered at her, "How DARE you sing black?" Do you doubt that if Bessie Smith was alive she would've huffed that Janis stole from her? Meanwhile nobody at the Metropolitan Opera told Leontyne Price, "How DARE you sing opera like a white Italian?"

Yes, the "Hall of Fame" is a crock.

As another blogger points out, there's a question about whether a "Hall of Fame" should educate people. Why base it on "fame" alone? Warren Zevon is out and Neil Diamond is in?

What about "the foreigners?" There were the Ye-Ye Girls in France. There are plenty of rockers selling millions of copies...singing in Italian, German or even Chinese. Why snub these rockers? If you say it's an "American" Hall of Fame, are we basing this only on making the American charts?

How often did I get a forlorn publicist try to convince me to do a piece on Nana, or Demis because "they are huge in Europe."

I can understand that an American "Rock Hall of Fame" wouldn't induct Cilla Black, Helen Shapiro or Petula Clark, none of whom had many hits in the USA (actually, Helen had NONE). Yet, in Britain is there the same prejudice? If a Hall of Fame museum was built in England, I'm sure they'd include Gene Vincent and Gene Pitney, who weren't all that popular in their native land.

It's always interesting when great stars are "influenced" by ones who somehow remain obscure. When The Beatles covered Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins, their fans had no idea who those guys were. Certainly in America, nobody knew what the title of the early Beatles instrumental "Cry for a Shadow" meant.

The Shadows? Well, IF I'M BEING HONEST, their American rivals The Ventures are only known for one or two hits, if any. There was "Telstar" (which was also a hit for The Tornados), and "Pipeline" (which was more of a hit for The Chantays) and "Hawaii 5-O." Do you bring in The Shadows because they were influential, or had a ton of hits in another country? I guess not. That's American arrogance, of course. American radio almost never programmed a song in a foreign language. American publications almost never reviewed import records. (I did, but look at where I've ended up!)

And yet...other "Hall of Fame" museums aren't so rigid as the uptight ROCK version. The Boxing and Baseball halls allow for forgotten people who didn't get a chance because they played in the Negro league or retired after Olympic glory. They add sportscasters and referees. They even make allowances for those who were voted out year after year, putting 'em together to give ONE of 'em a break in a final vote.

"The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" seems to have plenty of prejudices, including one against one-shot wonders. Boko Haram killed a lot of Nigerian girls, but their ONE major hit, "Whiter Shade of Paleface" or whatever it was, is famous around the world. It may well be the most-played song of all time. Yet some fuckhead rappers get in, instead.

Bottom line, anyone who unfortunately finds themselves in Cleveland, and is willing to pay what is probably too-high a price to visit "The Hall," will see limp costumes hanging behind glass, mute instruments ONCE played by stars, and boring photos they could find online. They will also see a lot of fellow idiots wandering around going, "Why is HE in the Hall of Fame" and "She's bogus" and "That fuckin' group SUCKED."