Little Yoshi pillows dot the couch. “All of us doing coke and smoking blunts. His dad is a poet, fantasy author, and noted translator of French literature; his mom works in human rights, supporting LGBTQ communities in Russia, Vietnam, and throughout South America. “I’m blessed to still be alive. There won’t be any rapping. Roses Lyrics: Bitch I'm in the clouds, you can see me broad day / If you call me up I might get in where you stay / St-st-stone island, iced out, ain't no tellin' where I stay / If-if I'm gone Gone, too, are the gimmicky references to pop cultural trinkets, exchanged for something more haunting: when Lean talks on “Hoover” about waking up covered in liquor, with his coke bag empty, he is speaking about his real life. found him on omegle xd. He bounces on the balls of his feet, and, in the front row, a young woman with short blue hair pulls her turtleneck up over her nose. Hoover Lyrics: Lean / Fattest bag around town, the law what I don't fuck with / Saddest frown around town, the dogs get to barkin', homie / Bag filled with white lies, sword in the drawer, homie There, he focused on “Getting up in the morning, having breakfast, and saving my own life.”, Lean had visited the city before, in 2014, and it set the tone for his return. Lean is at his best when he engages America’s influence while standing outside of it, and Sweden’s influence while standing outside of it too. “But it went just shit.”, Lean is equally blunt. Yung Lean Quotes & Sayings . The venue has a corporate feel, with lots of glass and exposed wood, and the section for winter coat drop-off is enormous. It seems unnecessary for him to stay.”. High and overcome by feelings of connectedness, Lean became detached from reality. Where's Jonatan?’ They’re like, ‘Jonatan has not been good today,’ and he’s like, ‘But where is he?’ They point at the corner, and they’d put me in the corner with, like, a KKK hat. It was a typically pleasant Miami spring night, with a clear sky and a comfortable temperature of 75 degrees, when Barron set out, with a 21-year-old producer from L.A. named Hunter Karman in the passenger seat. Lean says it will sound like Daniel Johnston mixed with Lil Wayne. Lean may have been born into a world that loved rap, but he can only ever approach it as an outsider. A Gustave Doré print of Lucifer getting kicked out of heaven is on the wall, and a Renaissance-style tapestry functions like a curtain around a mattress on the floor in a little nook. Pretty close to his normal voice, Lean sings lines like I left heaven for you, and, Having nightmares on the road again, and a bare chorus: I know what it feels like/ I know what I know now. Lean for his 18th birthday and discuss some of the more interesting details about the group. interview ... Yung Lean and sad boys, deeply uninterested in conventional song structures landed in the beginning of the start of a new era. “That doesn’t really feel real for someone from Stockholm.” Born Axel Tufvesson, Sherman comes across as the most introverted member of Lean’s crew. “He was the most high-minded, cosmic person anyone ever met,” said d’Eon, once signed to Hippos in Tanks. 18 lipca 1996 na Białorusi) – szwedzki raper. Poison Ivy. Sherman says there was a full moon on the night he made it, working on a laptop and headphones while his legs dangled over the water. Jonatan Leandoer Håstad (born July 18, 1996), known professionally as Yung Lean or JonatanLeandoer96 or JonatanLeandoer127, is a Swedish rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.Born and raised in Stockholm, Yung Lean rose to prominence in 2013 with his song "Ginseng Strip 2002" which went viral on YouTube. In November 2015, the album’s first single, “Hoover,” debuted with a music video featuring a dirt-bike rider jumping over a cemetery and a medic shining a light into Lean’s vacant eyes. Urodził się na Białorusi, wychował w Szwecji. Unknown Memory. For a wannabe rapper from Sweden, perhaps, to do something new you have to first be a little bit something you’re not. “From the American point of view, I guess it’s aggressive,” Lean says, “but I could relate to the whole attitude.” His favorite Tough Alliance song was “My Hood,” which came out when he was in the fifth grade, a song about loving where you’re from but also feeling disgusted with the place. Stranger. Fans who listened said the songs sounded unfinished, and expressed confusion over the small-print copyright, which seemed to attribute the release to the label of a man who had passed away: “Hippos in Tanks A division of the Machat Co,” it said on Spotify. Joakim Benon from JJ has agreed to play guitar on it, then Lean wants to send the tracks to Kanye West’s engineer Mike Dean, who helped out on two Warlord tracks that were recorded before Miami, to add more guitar and polish off the production. The music Lean is working on now is unique because, more than ever, it offers him the chance to speak as an insider. Coming from Sweden, he says, “I wouldn't say we have the same acute responsibility as a white American to step aside.”, For Swedes, American culture is simultaneously alluring and oppressive, Gud says. Recording Warlord was a whole new experience. Either way, Yung Lean and the Sad Boys were cultivating a deathly devoted fanbase with their post-Internet raps and mish-mashed a e s t h e t i c s. "A lot of people were like 'Oh! But Lean and Bladee stayed behind, with plans to play some shows then head up to New York. “You could have a lot of reasons to be angry at a white rapper,” says his producer Yung Gud. 53 votes. Russia was where she’d grown up, and Lean says the move to Belarus was partially because she wanted her son to have a childhood similar to her own — though his memories probably aren’t as fond as hers. “We’d put music in the speakers, dance around the factory. He got in touch with a musician named Avner, who’d caught his attention with a Swedish-language cover of Daniel Johnston a few years back. A huge screen behind them flashes images of fantasy and horror, dragons and monsters, dragging you into hell. http://www.twitter.com/nardwuar Even after the family returned to Sweden, when Lean was 5, he would never be great at school. There is also a separate teaser for the track, posted on his Instagram, that incorporates found footage of Miami: rainstorms rocking palm trees, and for a fleeting second, an overturned, burned-out car. 4. “The main hip-hop channel in this country still sounds like fucking Pete Rock or some Primo Gang Starr shit, and it sucks so bad,” his producer Yung Gud told me at one point. Glasgow The Art School (8). “Like, ‘Yes, finally we can jump on a trend and jump off it next year. Yung Lean. 961.5k Followers, 75 Following, 863 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from @yunglean2001 When Yung Lean wrote and recorded this song, it was in a dark time in his life when he was addicted to Xanax, lean and cocaine—as outlined by his article with The Fader, which is a “We’d just stand there pressing buttons,” Lean says. “We look at screens and we’re fed with American information, American music on the radio, American games, American everything. Strangers rushed in and managed to help Hunter from the flaming wreck, but Barron was stuck. Lean’s latest movements have certainly sustained interest in his weird and wonderful world, which may swell a little larger soon if certain rumours are to be believed. Transfixed by the peculiar sight of an apathetic teenager in a bucket hat rapping in monotone about his emotional state, pills and scientist Alfred Nobel, millions of Tumblr users shared and exhibited wonder at this curious new artist. Many songs have play counts in the hundreds of thousands, and his latest collaboration with Yung Lean, the swirling, trap-inflected “Kyoto,” has over a million plays on SoundCloud. Fifteen years ago, The Embassy started a label called Service, which released the first album from one of Lean’s favorite bands, The Tough Alliance. 88. The enigmatic nature of Lean’s breakout success (‘Ginseng’ generated nine million views, while signature track ‘Kyoto’ later clocked up 15 million) was driven further by the rise of the ‘Sad Boys’ movement – a name taken from the moniker that Lean and his producers, Yung Sherman and Yung Gud, make music under – with followers (both Sad Boys and Girls – they don’t discriminate) mobilising on internet forums in a rush not seen since Odd Future’s rise in 2011. in his arm, digging a grave. The single went up for sale on January 20, 2016, and Lean announced that Warlord would be released the following month, to be supported by an international tour that would bring him back to America. “You know this type of music only happens once every ten years,” Lean says The Tough Alliance’s Eric Berglund told him once. For a teenager from a small country in an ever-globalizing world, the grass is always greener on both sides, but on songs like “Miami Ultras” and “Hoover,” or the ravey “Hocus Pocus” featuring Bladee, Lean has found his own spot on the fence in between. “It’s ‘Yung Lean’s Dark Twisted Fantasy’,” he offers as a summation of ‘Warlord’, (mostly) referencing the title of Kanye West’s opulent 2010 album – although it’s much closer to Ye’s abrasive and electronic 2013 work, ‘Yeezus’. “But really, it’s all about the love for what you do.” It’s a refreshing outlook that reinforces Lean’s continued separation from the more formulaic facets of hip-hop, ensuring that his unique outsider story is one that you can still very much delve into. I was just born into hip-hop.” This is a fairly common statement from white rappers: cheap software is the new power chord, and rapping is simply what’s relevant now. A dunce hat. Here was this baby-faced white kid with a foreign accent and a strangely lazy flow, rapping with a simple formula, more or less: drugs, depression, and offhand references to pop culture. Showing search results for "Yung Lean" sorted by relevance. According to business documents filed with the state of Florida, but unbeknownst to many, Steven Machat was an equal managing partner in Hippos in Tanks. Joakim from JJ happens to be downstairs, playing ping-pong. Post Hip Hops surrealistic and psychedelic era. He and Lean, with his shouted delivery on the track, were influenced both by their location and by sounds from home, specifically a creepy track called “The World Fell” by a Danish synth-punk band named Vår. Between songs, I never understand what Lean says because he’s speaking in Swedish. ©2021 The Fader, Inc. All rights reserved. Braggadocio is a foremost trope in hip-hop: rappers often boast about how much money they make, how many cars they own, how they run the game. The person who uploaded that album was Barron’s father. r/sadboys: A sub-reddit dedicated to the Sadboys (SBE) and Drain Gang / Gravity Boys Shield Gang (GTBSG) music collectives. Another, it appears, is Lean’s way: to borrow from a place with bigger egos. A Swedish hip-hop journalist claimed last September that Lean would guest on Frank Ocean’s long-awaited second album. © 2021 NME is a member of the media division of BandLab Technologies. It’s in that spirit that Lean has started work on a new album. ‘Warlord’ takes on a heavier tone than his 2014 debut ‘Unknown Memory’, a direction typified by such lines as “Yung Leandoer don’t give a fuck about the fame” (‘Sippin’) and “I take what I got, I live ‘til it stops” (‘Miami Ultras’ – its accompanying video is a dark affair, depicting Lean alone, in a forest, wearing a dress and digging his own grave). “Why isn't he just going home? After the recording sessions wrapped in Miami, Sherman and Emilio flew back to Sweden. That’s how he achieves the something new that Gud is after, but it can be unsettling because, even if Lean’s not trying to, his music involves a lot of unsolved problems — of race and privilege, and of the way cultural exports affect the world. Posted by 2 days ago. We're not like disposable humans that you can throw in the trash.”, For outsiders making rap music, success often comes down to how well you handle your role. Instead, on “Miami Ultras,” Lean comes across more like the punk artist he says he might’ve been, outright shouting as he repeatedly hammers the same notes. Cute synths turned darker, and buildups got more dramatic, for an overall effect that’s less like stateside rap production and more like European hard trance — mixed with synth-punk and pop. Yung Lean was in a mental hospital around this time last year. Chcecie sprawdzić jak się miewa? But just five days after the announcement, a different version of Warlord appeared on Spotify, and for preorder on Amazon and iTunes. Poppin' pills like zits/ While someone vomits on your mosquito tits/ Slitting wrists while dark evil spirits like Slytherin slither in with tricks. Lean had ended up in Miami after a stateside tour that his 27-year-old U.S. manager, Barron Machat, had helped arrange. If you reverse evil, you live.’ I analyzed [the music] and realized what they were doing, and I took it off.”, “There’s nothing good about Lean,” he adds. God Faith Support Comfort Restaurants Helpfulness Life Friendship Funny Sister Judgement Politics Uncertainty Fear Being There For Someone I Really Like You Give Me A Chance Cute Love Song Lyrics. Welcome to Interview Diaries—an unvarnished glimpse into the world of our favorite talents.We’ll be asking them to keep a diary, sending us their notes, iPhone pics, doodles, and stray observations about life. Sprawdźcie nowy klip do kawałka "Ghostrider". By his own account, in Miami he was heavily addicted, not just to lean, but to Xanax, marijuana, and cocaine, and combining the drugs daily to troubling effect. Praise “A bit squeamish.”. Like Sherman did with Vår, he prefers to reference more local sounds: djent, a Swedish style of progressive metal that sometimes features sample-based percussion, or Addis Black Widow, a Swedish R&B group from late-’90s that sounded kind of like Craig David. In the hospital, Lean became paranoid that he’d been separated from his hard drive. Nardwuar interviews Yung Lean & Sad Boys at Chapel Arts in Vancouver, BC Canada ! I'd been standing there like that for maybe five hours.”. Yung Lean is a rapper, singer and producer hailing from Stockholm, Sweden who was born on July 18th 1996. In Miami, Barron had an apartment where Lean could crash, and connections: his father, Steven Machat, is an entertainment lawyer whose clients have included Ozzy Osbourne and Bobby Brown. A number of fellow Swedes accompanied Lean on the trip. “We already did the rockstar thing,” he says, “and it’s exhausting.” With Sherman willing to handle production duties in Miami, Gud decided to stay in Sweden. It was very nice. “Yung Lean is like water: he’s always changing due to the temperature; how he’s feeling,” explains the rapper, referring to himself in the third person. How did his race play into the attention surrounding him, or how his lyrics were received? The sounds flow together, from one song to the next, each track not quite mixed by Sherman but with tendrils of reverb that connect them. Lean started taking boxing lessons, too, coincidentally in a class with Thorbjörn Håkansson from The Embassy, a crucial band in the development of Swedish indie-pop. “One day my dad was gonna pick me up from kindergarten,” Lean says. Życiorys. “Yung Lean is like water: he’s always changing due to the temperature; how he’s feeling,” explains the rapper, referring to himself in the third person. Lean emerged at a transitional time in the way music is talked about online: sites that once trafficked MP3s now produce earnest thinkpieces. “We’re always one step ahead,” he knowingly states about the collective’s strong work ethic. Our first entry comes from Sad Boy rapper Yung Lean. For about two months, Lean’s father tended to him while he recovered in the countryside, in relative isolation, before moving back into his parents’ place in Stockholm. “Creep Creeps” is a single by Yung Lean and his first solo song of 2019. The initial mass interest in Lean and the Sad Boys may have downscaled from viral phenomenon to a core fanbase, but clearly Lean and the Sad Boys continue to court a substantial audience wherever they go. He says he had a hard a time in school, too, and only made the grades for a job-training university, which he dropped out of to focus on music. “I think [we] can go as far as [we] want – if that’s the goal,” muses Lean on what the future holds for the Sad Boys. We need new things.”. Please select your region North America Rest of the World Rest of the World According to the video, Lean contributed to "Godspeed" where he has formerly been credited as a contributor on "Self Control." The video for “Miami Ultras” was filmed in the countryside of Sweden after Lean’s recovery. “As a foreigner, I feel like our approach to grabbing U.S. culture is just a part of making yourself heard, getting your presence felt.”. We've been away for so long, what is he going to do here now? Show more. What do you call it? “You guys are us ten years later.”. “I'd throw spaghetti at him, and he'd take out all the stuff from my studio in the basement. We don't need more of that anymore. abrasive and electronic 2013 work, ‘Yeezus’. It’s a subtle but effective shift: the aura of detachment that made him seem jokey or sarcastic has been replaced by a feeling that’s more aggressively jaded. A 16-year-old white, middle-class Swede embracing gritty rap glamour and peddling a gaudy early-internet aesthetic, Yung Lean was treated as a novelty; these days, Håstad is having the last laugh. A year later, he has the chance to do better. 4 4. comments. They were like, ‘This party's too much.’”, Being in America, Lean says, always made him want to seize life to a superhuman degree. share. Bladee and Mechatok like to think of luck as a paradox. Yung Lean approached American rap as an outsider, became infamous, and then tragedy struck. Not a violent relationship, but a very angry relationship. Yung Sherman, Yung Lean, ECCO2k, and Bladee, in Stockholm. “I remember I felt like, Why is he going to stay?” Sherman says now. And he was a perfect subject. Lean just follows his heart wherever it wants to go.”. “[Most Swedish rappers] never tried to make their own thing. After midnight, in the early hours of April 8, Lean says he managed to call Barron and beg him to bring him his files. “During the night, it was very scary,” he says. And then some guys from Odd Future came with their, like, skateboards, and they just looked at us and walked away. “And I said, ‘Well, fuck you.’ But then I heard God talk to me: ‘Steven, they’re evil. “Lean could be on some Sid Vicious punk shit one day, and then on some heartbroken Justin Timberlake/Nelly Furtado shit [the next]. Yung Lean isn’t like other rappers. When Lean opens the door, wearing a soccer jersey, Polo pants, and Gucci slides, he lets loose the sound of reggae music and the smell of incense. If the name doesn’t echo back to circa 2013 and 2014, you’ve probably never experienced this wave of, for the lack of a better descriptor, aesthetic easily identified by the use of images of Arizona Iced Tea, the sad face emoticon, Japanese text, and early 00’s computer graphics. You can’t always be on the top, you know?”. Barron was a beloved and respected figure in the North American experimental music scene. Most nights the drugs kept him up, so he’d sit out on a balcony, writing a book in his iPhone called Heaven that retold childhood nightmares about people turning into rats — the animal sign of his Chinese Zodiac. “If everything that happened didn't happen, I guess like we could look back at Miami as a fun time,” Sherman says. At 21, people in Sweden will be like, ‘My life is over, and I'll just work for the rest of my life.’ So once you do get to the U.S. and someone meets you at the airport and gives you money and gives you drugs, we go too crazy.”, For Yung Sherman, that fantasy feeling was only more extreme by the beach. He looks like the teenager he still is. AND WHAT AN INTERVIEW!!! Nadal jednak gra koncerty na całym świecie, nawija w swoim stylu. 11. By Eli Enis. He got a job at McDonald’s, but he did eventually use school to his advantage: the academic computer lab is where he recorded parts of his first mixtape, Unknown Death 2002, before dropping out in 2013, when he was 16.