The list of this year’s inductees was announced on Saturday’s episode of “CBS This Morning” and featured an appearance by Hall of Fame chairman and musician Nile Rodgers, who called Elliott “one of my favorite writers of all time.”
Not only is Elliott, a Grammy Award-winning artist, responsible for monumental hits from the early 2000s like “Get Ur Freak On” and “Work It,” but she’s also the only female rapper to have six studio albums certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Over the course of her three-decade career, she’s written for some of the music industry’s most talented female artists, including Beyonce (“Signs”), Whitney Houston (“In My Business”), Aaliyah (“If Your Girl Only Knew”), Mary J. Blige (“Never Been”) and Ciara (“One Two Step”).
In its announcement, the Hall of Fame recognized Elliott as “a groundbreaking solo superstar, pioneering songwriter-producer and across-the-board cultural icon.”
On Saturday, Elliott responded on Twitter by congratulating “all the AMAZING songwriters who have been inducted” this year, all of whom became eligible 20 years after their first commercial release of a song.
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The 2019 class also includes singer-songwriters Yusuf Islam (better known as Cat Stevens), John Prine, Tom T. Hall, Jack Tempchin and hip-hop producer Dallas Austin, who wrote the TLC hit “Creep.” The six artists will be inducted at a ceremony on June 13 in New York City.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.