The New York outfit reworked "Agony" off Lean's album 'Stranger.' Yung Lean's native Sweden is better known for emotive indie rock than it is for genre-bending alternative hip-hop, so it's fitting ...

A track from the rapper's latest album drags like slowly dripping syrup, as he introduces the listeners to nightmare apparitions only he can see. Yung Lean, or Jonatan Leandoer Håstad, makes hip-hop ...

Last year, the woozy Brooklyn guitar-pop band Beach Fossils returned with their album Somersault. And today, the band declares pan-genre solidarity with woozy musicians the world over. Or something.

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 ...

It has been fascinating to watch Yung Lean's progression. From viral sensation to legitimate cult artist, the change from his debut to now is remarkable. So far removed from the off-kilter hip-hop ...

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 ...

On Thursday night, in a basement strewn with garbage under a former furniture warehouse in Bushwick, Yung Lean, a baby-faced seventeen-year-old rapper from Stockholm, ran up behind Yung Gud, an ...