Yung Lean and Bladee reunite for the third time this year with “Advent.” After releasing “Inferno” and “Evil World,” they’ve re-teamed for another bass-heavy collaboration, suggesting that a follow-up ...

Yung Lean has tapped FKA Twigs for a new single, “Bliss,” accompanied by a lo-fi music video. The clip, directed by Aidan Zamiri, finds the pair dressed in wedding attire as they ride off in a classic ...

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 ...

Last month, Swedish rapper Yung Lean announced that he would be releasing a new album, Jonatan, sometime in the near future. If you had told me ten years ago that any of us should be taking Yung Lean ...

Rap circles on the internet—WorldStarHipHop, VladTV, wherever teenagers spend time online—live for the hype cycle, falling mouse over Macbook for a young artist with an eccentric, fully-formed debut.

Yung Lean has frequently gained polarizing opinions for his unique interpretation of hip-hop, but it would it appear there’s more to him than that. He’s frequently shown his appreciation for a ...

The enigmatic Swedish rappers Yung Lean and Bladee are longtime collaborators, and they’re both members of the Drain Gang collective. Both of them have been busy lately. Last year, Bladee released two ...

In the early 2010s, Yung Lean arrived as an oddity: a white Swedish rapper who blurred together a clutch of hip-hop sounds made by black musicians from the U.S. As with any case of an artist taking ...

Yung Lean is wack to the fullest extent. Wack enough, apparently, to have his tour bus shot at, which happened Mar. 18 after a Pittsburgh show. Scary, yes, but more than anything this shooting seemed ...

On Wednesday night (Nov. 16), Travis Scott posted the above picture to Instagram, tagging twenty-year-old Swedish rapper Yung Lean in the process. That kid on the left rapping into the mic while ...

In a 2016 interview, one of Yung Lean’s longtime producers, Gud, described the unique position of making rap music as an outsider. “[Most Swedish rappers] never tried to make their own thing,” he said ...