Hip-hop icons Afrika Bambaataa and the Beastie Boys have been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.

According to The Los Angeles Times, both acts were nominated alongside Madonna, Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, disco stars Donna Summer and Chic and the rock groups, Dave Clark Five and The Ventures.

Artists become eligible for induction 25 years after their first recording is released.

Five hundred voters, which will include journalists, producers, and music-industry executives, will choose five of the afomentioned nominees to be inducted into the Hall Of Fame at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York on March 2008.

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were the first hip hop act to be inducted  into the Hall Of Fame in March this year. The group produced classics such as “The Message” and “White Lines (Don't Do It).”