What influence did Kurt Cobain have on Hip Hop?

[SunZoo]

Wait a fukking minute...there is a rapper named Kirko Bangs, after his namesake, how did he have 0 influence on Hip Hop? He's been referenced numerious times and one of the biggest' rappers' out is a 'rock star' that has a club song about egging a bytch on to commit that

I'd say his influence might be indirect but it's there.

 

[delnegro]

None...except being a good punchline reference.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Caucasians had been influenced by hip-hop since the late 70's/early 80's, not the other way around.

We manufactured and set the bar.

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[ZEB WALTON]

To say he had no influence whatsoever is a bit of a stretch. Dude was one of if not THE biggest rock star of HIS time.

I think you guys are downplaying rocks influence because you cant see it.

For example i wouodnt have known guns and roses was a huge influence on the gza if he didnt say so himself.

The sound of grunge imo def setup music moving into those darker areas where before hip hop was still party music. Not saying he did it alone but you couldnt turn on the tv without hearing cobain song playing and im sure MUSICIANS respected that and might have taken a few notes.

The street part of hip hop culture prolly wasnt influenced but the artists def paid attention to who was hot and who wasnt.

 

[delnegro]

Wait a fukking minute...there is a rapper named Kirko Bangs, after his namesake, how did he have 0 influence on Hip Hop? He's been referenced numerious times and one of the biggest' rappers' out is a 'rock star' that has a club song about egging a bytch on to commit that

I'd say his influence might be indirect but it's there.

There's also a rapper named Roscoe P. Coldchain....I guess The Dukes of Hazzard influenced hip hop...smh

 

[delnegro]

Being aware of someone doesn't mean they had influence. We gave zero fukks about grunge in hip hop. Read the definition of influence.

 

[Boolean]

He’s only “referenced” because he killed himself, ya’ll act like nikkas are on tracks quoting Lithium

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Zero

 

[wizworld]

He didn't influence hip-hop specifically.

So I guess the question is why is he acknowledged as an inspiration by some hip-hop artist.

This is how I see it. Many people in the hood had cable television by 1991. If you had cable, you probably watched MTV a lot, because they showed music videos. In a group like Onyx's case, they saw this really popular video with all these white kids just wilding out and jamming over and over on MTV, they related to the rebellious energy, and wanted to have something like that for people more like themselves. Then there are those kids in the hood who embraced skate culture, which pushed them even further towards hard rock & grunge. Plus the tour tees were pretty dope.

Onyx, Redman, DMX... it's clear they were in somewhat in tune with rock music in the late 80's. And maybe they were frustrated that signed hip-hop acts were forced to look and sound cool at all times, as opposed to being able to express themselves naturally.

 

[Drip Bayless]

Rebirth era Wayne
Rock/Rap when nikkas was doing songs with Kevin Rudolf and shop boyz

 

[Dad]

RIP Kurt. Totally forgot he passed today

 

[Chip Skylark]

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is this real if so dope as fukk

 

[SunZoo]

There's also a rapper named Roscoe P. Coldchain....I guess The Dukes of Hazzard influenced hip hop...smh

This is idiocy.

Nirvana has much more influence on my generation (and subsequently this one) than fukking Dukes of Hazzard, even with Daisy being an og "thot" and having a hit song that references her. A rapper named Kirko Bangz in the era of Lil Wayne clones who want to be rock stars, he is one of the most well known and identified with rock stars in the Hip Hop community and has a lot of parallels to 2pac in the sense of his perceived genius and early demise. Grunge music caught the attention of Hip Hop heads in a way that is impossible to say that he had 0 influence on Hip Hop.

 

[SunZoo]

Being aware of someone doesn't mean they had influence. We gave zero fukks about grunge in hip hop. Read the definition of influence.

Influence:
1. The capacity to have an effect on the character, development or behavior of someone or something.

He influenced the rappers that in turn influenced the culture, comparing Kurt Cobain's influence on music as a whole to a tertiary character from the Dukes of Hazzard,is asinine. Looking at a lot of the current crop of alternative rappers, I would say it goes beyond just being aware of ____.

 

[SunZoo]