Whether you like him or not, Swedish internet rapper Yung Lean and his Sadboys crew are here to stay. But as his success continues, it raises the question for those who don't "get" him: is this all a ...

Yung Lean is the nom de rap of 19-year-old Swede Jonatan Leandoer Hastad, who is currently having a moment. Yung Lean is an invention, a character, like Lil Wayne or Eminem or Mr. T. He is famous in a ...

Yung Lean's 2017 album Stranger has a song on it unlike any the young Swedish rapper had released up to that point. "Agony," over spare piano, was the most confessional track on his most personal ...

Yung Lean and Bladee released their first full-length collaborative album, “Psykos,” on March 12 under Yung Lean’s label, World Affairs. The album is produced by Palmistry & Silent Sky. The ...

In 2014, an album called Unknown Death 2002 popped up on the Bandcamp of the streetwear and lifestyle brand MishkaNYC. The artist was someone going by the name Yung Lean; he sounded like the foggy ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “Where the hell did you find this?” a confused friend asks while watching and listening to Yung ...

It’s easy to dismiss Yung Lean, almost on name alone, as the embodiment of the spacey lo-fi cloud rap that plagued the early 2010s with its appropriation of Japanese culture and melancholic vaporwave ...

Bladee and Yung Lean appear to be on a "collaborative roll" as both artists have dropped 13 full-length songs this year, many of which come from their mini-LP, titled Psykos. On the first listen of ...

In her bi-weekly column, Social Anxiety, Emilie Friedlander peeks underneath the artifacts of contemporary culture to question what it all really means. Recently, I stumbled upon a piece about Odd ...

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