Nevertheless, others - including some of his peers in the music industry - accused him of racism for the use of the word 'niggers' in the song. When Guns N' Roses and Living Colour supported The Rolling Stones for a concert in Los Angeles in 1989, Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid publicly commented on "One in a Million" during his band's set. After hearing this, Rose in turn suggested they play the song for their opening act "just to piss them off." Nirvana's Kurt Cobain also took offense to the track, according to then-manager Danny Goldberg, explaining: "Kurt's whole thing about being a feminist, this was at a time when Guns N’ Roses had a song ['One in a Million'] that was on one of their big albums that referred to niggers and faggots. And we couldn't have had something more offensive to somebody like Kurt than that."