Kurt Cobain Slams White Rappers In Newly Unearthed Interview

Last month, audio from a 1989 interview with Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic gave us some insight into the band's thoughts on the long hair phenomenon of the '80s. Now, another unearthed interview is shedding some light on how the late Nirvana frontman felt about rap. Namely, white rappers.

The audio is dated September 20, 1991, which is just four days before the band would release its seminal album, Nevermind. A student host at Western University’s campus radio station in London, Ontario by the name of Roberto Lorusso spoke with Cobain before a show at Toronto’s Opera House.

“I read you’re a big fan of rap but dislike white rap groups, and this is a quote: ‘The white man has ripped off the black man for long enough,'” he said to the singer before asking about his thoughts on Consolidated — an activist group, inspired by hip-hop and consisting of white members.

“Oh, I don’t know. Was I drunk at that time?" Cobain replied. "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 the full nine-and-a-half-minute interview below.

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