To rise out of obsecurity, to become ordo something super-fantastic despite the people around you telling you that you can't. Example: Kurt Cobain became a rock star, depsite being told he had no hope of making anything out of his life. So he was the first to do a kurt.
TO DO A KURT
Meaning of TO DO A KURT in English
Slang English vocab. Английский сленговый словарь. 2012