Kurt Cobain Influenced Pretty Much All Genres — Just Ask Wiz Khalifa And Fall Out Boy

Kurt Cobain’s Nirvana released just three full-length studio albums from 1989 through 1993, but their music is still inspiring audiences today.

That influence is sure to reach even greater heights when HBO airs its Cobain doc “Montage of Heck” on May 4.

So, how has Nirvana maintained its importance more than 20 years after Cobain’s passing in ’94? Wiz Khalifa might have the answer. As he put it, Cobain’s work continues to inspire because it’s simply timeless.

“I’m only 27 so when they were poppin’, I was really, really young,” Khalifa told MTV News. “But him as a writer, how he put his stuff together, it reaches so many people and so many ages. It’s just timeless.”

Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump agrees, but notes that he didn’t fully appreciate Cobain’s greatness until it was almost too late.

“In the era, I remember being like, ‘Eh, I don’t like Nirvana. I don’t like this. This isn’t for me,’” Stump recalled. “Toward the end, I started to realize, this is awesome. I was one of those jerk-little kids that was like, ‘Eh. Whatever’s popular, I don’t like that.’”

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