Eminem and N.W.A are among the 26 nominees for the 2025 Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF), though only six will win. A songwriter becomes eligible for induction 20 years after their first major commercial song release. The winners will be inducted at the 2025 Induction & Awards Gala, going down on June 12 in New York City. In naming their nominees, the SHOF listed five songs, but noted they “are merely a representative sample of their extensive catalogs.”
For Em, they named “Lose Yourself,” “Stan,” “Mockingbird,” “Houdini” and “Rap God,” and for N.W.A, they named ““Express Yourself,” “Dopeman,” “F–k Tha Police,” “Gangsta Gangsta” and “Straight Outta Compton.” Other nominees include Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkin and Janet Jackson. Voting by eligible members will go through midnight ET on December 22.
The nomination for N.W.A comes just months after the legendary rap group were honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award ahead of the 2024 Grammys. The five men were recognized as part of the Special Merit Awards Grammys, which according to the Recording Academy, are given to those artists who the Academy believes have made “significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording.” N.W.A is the fifth Hip Hop group in the past eight years to receive the honor, following in the footsteps of Run-DMC, Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, and Salt-N-Pepa.
Group member Eazy-E received the honor posthumously, alongside the likes of Donna Summer and Tammy Wynette. In other news, Eminem has reportedly popped up in front of the camera for a surprising reason — a cameo in Adam Sandler’s upcoming Happy Gilmore sequel. The U.S. Sun reported last week that a “source” informed them Marshall Mathers had traveled to New Jersey to shoot some scenes for the film last Tuesday (November 6).
“Em is a big fan of the original movie, and he was a total pleasure to work with. He was just super low key, he didn’t have a big entourage, and was just an absolute delight on set,” the anonymous source said. The source continued, saying that the Rap God had “good comedic acting skills.”
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