She never mentions Amy Winehouse by name, but from the castigation of her target's "junkie routine" to the hip-hop sheen coating the girl-group glitter of multi-instrumentalist Adam Pallin's brightly chiming piano, it could hardly be anyone else.
Rockers Van Halen, singer Patti Smith, hiphop pioneer Grandmaster Flash and 1960s girl group The Ronettes will also be honoured at a ceremony in March.
The Gates response to these numbers reminds me of a hip-hop song Positive K recorded 18 years ago, in which a cute girl in a club keeps telling him she already has a man, and he responds.