Kurt Cobain — "The white man ripped off the black man long enough. They should leave rap music …"
The white man ripped off the black man long enough. They should leave rap music to the African-Americans because they do it so well and it is so vital to them. ... I'm a fan of rap music, but most of it is so misogynist that I can't even deal with it. I'm really not that much of a fan, I totally respect and love it because it's one of the only original forms of music that's been introduced, but the White man doing rap is just like watching a White man dance. We can't dance, we can't rap.
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American singer-songwriter and Nirvana frontman whose Nevermind (1991) ended the hair-metal era; died of suicide April 5, 1994.
Closely associated with
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam frontman and grunge contemporary) and Layne Staley (Alice in Chains frontman).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Axl Rose, Guns N' Roses frontman — Nevermind toppled GNR's Use Your Illusion II from #1 in January 1992, ending the late-80s Sunset Strip excess Cobain's grunge austerity was specifically reacting against. The cleanest single moment in late-20th-century rock — the literal generational pivot from hair-metal excess to flannel-shirt anti-rock-star authenticity.
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Interview with Roberto Lorusso (originally M.E.A.T. magazine)
