Hip-hop legend LL Cool J is among the 12 nominees up for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in 2010.

The 25th annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place March 15 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. To be eligible, an act must have released its first single or album at least 25 years prior to the year of nomination. This year’s nominees had to release their first single no later than 1984.

LL recently premiered in the critically-acclaimed new CBS spinoff spinoff NCIS: Los Angeles.