hip-hop songs that reference nirvana or kurt cobain

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1. 50 Cent "A Baltimore Love Thing"

― Sym Sym (sym), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

2. Dr Dre & Ice Cube - Natural Born Killaz

― Black Arkestra (Black Arkestra), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

#3 N*E*R*D "Am I High"

One of those SPIN "ultimate list" issues from the last few years has a top 10 of these.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

Killer Mike "Rap is Dead"

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

5. The Diplomats - "Dipset's Theme"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

6. pastor troy ft. sky - acid rain (in loving memory of kurt cobain)

― 33333, Friday, 20 May 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

7. "Commandante" - k-os (something about how he was born the same day as KC)

― Huk-L, Friday, 20 May 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

Eminem, "Cum On Everybody"

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

9. Dr. Octagon - "Dr. Octagon"

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

House of Pain, whichever one goes "blow out your brain like Kurt Cobain"
EPMD, whichever one goes "Teen Spirit, but not like Nirvana"

― mike a, Friday, 20 May 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

On one track or another SonDoobie of Funkdoobiest boasted that he Rocks like Nirvana. I think he rhymes it with "...so fuck Benihana" which is as clear a statement of his rap style as you could ask for.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 20 May 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

Roosevelt Franklin samples "Scentless Apprentice" on their record. The one that goes MOTHERFUCKIN KURT LODER TRIED TO ROB ME AT A CITIBANK ATM!

Also, there's a track where he does "In The Pines," which he probably heard for the first time on a Nirvana record.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 20 May 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

Austin OTM
I can hear him saying that right now.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 20 May 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

cam'ron "more gangsta music"

Two more for Cam fa takin over the Roc. Jeah... Jeah! It's my year so
Jeah! It's like the whole Bird Gang's in here, like Kurt Cobain's was here!

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 20 May 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't the Funkdoobiest line 'I rock like Metallica'? (Unless he ref'd Nirvana in the same song too).

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 20 May 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

not a reference, but Fashion of the Beatnuts wore a Nirvana t shirt for some of the Intoxicated Demons press photos.

― mucho, Friday, 20 May 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

Remember when Trech from Naughty By Nature said he bumped Nirvana in the hood?

― asdfl, Friday, 20 May 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

I've heard a live version of 'Insane in the Brain' where Sen Dog backs up B-real with a 'crazy insane like Kurt Cobain' at the chorus

― Seuss, Friday, 20 May 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

And the winner is....

'Call It What You Want' by Credit to the Nation! That sampled 'Smells Like a Teen Spirit'.

I wonder where he is now....

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Friday, 20 May 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I have fond memories of that track... I was DJing at a party, and this annoying girl asked me whether I could play some Nirvana, and I was like, sure. Then I put "Call It What You Want" on; it starts exactly like "Smells Like Teen Spirit", but then the bassline kicks in and MC Fusion starts his (to be honest, rather awful) rap. You should've seen the expression on the girl's face!

But yeah, Credit to the Nation, whatever happened to them? Just today I was listening to Chumbawamba's "Enough Is Enough" (featuring MC Fusion) and wondering about the same thing.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:23 (twenty years ago)

M Carty -

both were used - not sure if it was the same song or not. I suppose I should go check.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Is Matty okay now Robin? No details necessary, but I know he went through a tough time a while back.

― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

cam'ron "more gangsta music"
Two more for Cam fa takin over the Roc. Jeah... Jeah! It's my year so
Jeah! It's like the whole Bird Gang's in here, like Kurt Cobain's was here!

I'm pretty sure this is "Dipset's Theme". The one that goes "I sit alone in my four-cornered room listening to gangsta music," right?

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

x post

For some reason I read that as "I know where he is now". Whoops.

Credit to the Nation were sadly underappreciated, the guy was a star.

― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Public Enemy "Do You Want to Go Our Way?"

Big Punisher (the song on the first album where he says "Sometimes rhymin' I blow my own mind like Nirvana")

― Vic Funk, Friday, 20 May 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

i spit that kurt vonnegut
that kurt cobain blow your brain that nirvana shit

― triumph of the will the insult comic dog (zvookster), Sunday, 21 March 2010 17:42 (fifteen years ago)

the reliably mental and entertaining goop newsletter made paltrow a lot more ridiculous (and a lot less annoying) to me

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Sunday, 21 March 2010 17:46 (fifteen years ago)

don't remember that track lex

how was houston?

― triumph of the will the insult comic dog (zvookster), Sunday, 21 March 2010 17:47 (fifteen years ago)

um, wrong thread, obv

though i do have this from lloyd's "pusha" -

her love is like cocaine, cocaine
i'm higher than the highest plane
cobain, cobain *gunshot*
she blows my brain

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Sunday, 21 March 2010 17:47 (fifteen years ago)

houston got cancelled :( demi lovato's US management in my black books

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Sunday, 21 March 2010 17:48 (fifteen years ago)

oh! well wb in any case, seemed like u were missing for a while there!

― triumph of the will the insult comic dog (zvookster), Sunday, 21 March 2010 17:52 (fifteen years ago)

nah i've been here! apart from when i was at bloc festival (that was ace) (salt-n-pepa live, man)

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Sunday, 21 March 2010 17:53 (fifteen years ago)

i always misheard fix up look sharp as dizzee saying "get your head split like nirvana"

― symsymsym, Monday, 22 March 2010 01:13 (fifteen years ago)

eight years pass...

Kurt Cobain Offers His Thoughts On Rap Music In Unreleased 1991 Interview

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 18:41 (six years ago)

kurt cobain your cancelled

― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 10:46 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVp2BWT7OUU

thirteen years later i can post the youtube for the pastor troy song

― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 10:50 (six years ago)

five years pass...

Chosen this Kurt Cobain thread to post this.

frances bean cobain’s instagram post on the 30th anniversary of kurt cobain’s passing:( my heart breaks for her pic.twitter.com/KEdNu9dIHv
— morticia (@weirdngwoman) April 5, 2024

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 7 April 2024 10:26 (one year ago)

thanks for sharing. went to ig to find the original post to heart it.

― brimstead, Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:37 (one year ago)

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