British-American rapper MF DOOM referred to Bukowski as inspiration for his songs, featuring a Bukowski poem in one of his songs, "Cellz", off of his 2009 album, of which the title was a reference to Bukowski's poem "Dinosauria, We": "Born Like This". Modest Mouse included a song titled "Bukowski" on their 2004 album "Good News For People Who Love Bad News". Harry Styles has stopped One Direction concerts to read Bukowski in 2014. Killer Mike mentions Bukowski in the song "Walking in the Snow" on the 2020 album "RTJ4", saying he reads Noam Chomsky and Bukowski. Mac Miller used an excerpt from "The Charles Bukowski Tapes" on his song "Wedding" from his 2014 mixtape "Faces".