Kurt Cobain was leader of the band Nirvana who found success with songs such as “Smells Like Teen Spirit“. Having died at an early age of 27 the grunge front-man was interviewed before the bands’s sudden rise to fame. In the interview he mentions that “white men can’t rap or dance.
The singer-songwriter was found dead at his home in Seattle from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to his head in the year 1994. He was hailed as a leader of grunge music leaving behind a legacy that fans still continue to admire up to this day.
During an unearthed interview with Robert Lorusso, he pointed out that Kurt Cobain had once said, “The white man has ripped off the black man for long enough,” Cobain replied, “Oh I don’t know. Was I drunk at that time?”
He went on to say, “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.”
Listen to Kurt Cobain In Rare Unearthed Interview
The interview was conducted on September 20, 1991 at the Opera House in Toronto, Canada, right before Nirvana was catapulted into mainstream success. Lorusso details the circumstances of the conversation on the Dead City Beat Bandcamp page.
During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with heroin addiction and chronic health problems such as depression. He also struggled with the personal and professional pressures of fame.