After calling Swedish teen rapper Yung Lean “mesmerizing” in a post two months ago, some guy tweeted me repeatedly, saying: “MESMERIZING? DO YOU KNOW WHAT MESMERIZING MEANS?! I CAN’T BELIEVE SOMEBODY ...

TikTok has released its 2022 wrap-up, and it looks like Swedish rapper Yung Lean's 2013 hit "Ginseng Strip 2002" has earned the top spot on the platform's "Around The World" Global Top 10 (it ranked ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...