Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2015 nominees

“F— tha Police.” One song.

At this point, most Los Angeles citizens understand the importance of Los Lobos to the DNA of the city.

Here’s something you may not have known: There is a Facebook page called “Induct Janet Jackson into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” that currently has over 75,000 followers.

The groundbreaking gangsta rap of N.W.A, the catholic pan-American rock of Los Lobos, the expansive progressive rock of Yes and the boundary-stretching R&B of Janet Jackson have earned each of those acts a shot at induction next year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which has announced its field of 15 nominees.

The site of Los Lobos’ homecoming record release party earlier this week seemed unsettling: the former Ramirez Mortuary in East Los Angeles, where a concert stage had been set up in what reportedly once was the embalming room.

Janet Jackson’ was born in 1966, the youngest of nine children.

The East L.A. band Los Lobos looks back in wonder at its 1992 album “Kiko,” which shook the pop music scene.

Janet Jackson is well aware of the job at hand on her first album in seven years, and she doesn’t waste any time facing up to it.

Los Lobos performed an intimate concert for family and friends to celebrate their new album, “Gates of Gold,” at El Gallo Plaza in East Los Angeles on Sept. 29.

“I’m not a robot.

In recording its “The Neighborhood” album, Los Lobos wrestled with questions of artistic purity and commercial compromise.

Wherever you turn on the Eastside, it seems you’ll find someone with something to say about Los Lobos.