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Tupac enters Rock hall of fame─── 11:49 Sat, 08 Apr 2017
New York - The late rapper Tupac Shakur, 1960s protest singer Joan Baez and grunge legends Pearl Jam have all entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
BBC reports they were inducted alongside the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), Journey and Yes during a concert in New York.
However, it was not just a celebration: a number of artists chose to use the occasion to make impassioned pleas and remember lost friends.
Tupac's award was collected by his friend, fellow rapper Snoop Dogg. Folk singer Baez - as known for her activism as for her singing - made a rallying call for resistance in the face of "the new political cultural reality".
The 76-year-old, who admitted most younger people had never heard her work, made a return to the spotlight this week when her song Nasty Man went viral.
Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder tackled climate change.
Snoop Dogg was on hand to collect Tupac's trophy, more than two decades after he was shot dead in Las Vegas, calling him "the greatest rapper of all time".
BBC
