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Yung Lean Quotes & Sayings . I like emotional music.”. “We’re always one step ahead,” he knowingly states about the collective’s strong work ethic. share. I could have died, for sure.”, A few months after Lean returned to Sweden, he took a job at a factory. “And I said, ‘Well, fuck you.’ But then I heard God talk to me: ‘Steven, they’re evil. 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. Praise They just took what they liked and they did another copy of that, they just made more of it. A year later, he has the chance to do better. 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. 4. “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. What did Yung Lean mean for rap? Punk in ethos but poppy in sound, with songs full of bright synths that were shadowed by anxious lyrics, these bands took the influence of America and created a uniquely Swedish response. © 2021 NME is a member of the media division of BandLab Technologies. 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. 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. “I'm gonna release it as Yung Lean,” he says, even though it doesn’t sound very much like Yung Lean. “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. “During the night, it was very scary,” he says. In a well-lit backstage room, Lean sips nonalcoholic beer, plays cards with Yung Sherman and Bladee, and covers himself in fake blood, in red lines up his arm and under his eyes. In the hospital, Lean became paranoid that he’d been separated from his hard drive. Lean was then and is now under what he says is “heavy medication.”. 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. Nadal jednak gra koncerty na całym świecie, nawija w swoim stylu. Yung Lean isn’t like other rappers. 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. The production group Working on Dying have collaborated with Lean and Bladee in … Barron was a beloved and respected figure in the North American experimental music scene. A number of fellow Swedes accompanied Lean on the trip. 53 votes. 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. I don't wanna say anything more,” he says. Yung Lean. TWIGS: It was just such an incredible performance, and what really struck me was how everyone in the audience seemed so connected by the music, and the way that they were dressed, the way that they looked, the age group of the people. share. He doesn’t sound like — or sound like he’s trying to sound like — Future or Drake or Young Thug; he attempts no vocal feats in his flows. 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. abrasive and electronic 2013 work, ‘Yeezus’. “We look at screens and we’re fed with American information, American music on the radio, American games, American everything. Not a violent relationship, but a very angry relationship. Another track features just him and a piano. 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. Chcecie sprawdzić jak się miewa? 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. According to Lean and Steven Machat, Barron had taken Xanax. It was Mount Sinai in Miami Beach, the city where he’d been recording demos and rough drafts for his third full-length project, Warlord. At first, Lean’s medication often made him tired, and his balance was off, but once he got used to it he started to exercise, and with an interesting group of people. Lean may have been born into a world that loved rap, but he can only ever approach it as an outsider. It was very nice. Joakim from JJ happens to be downstairs, playing ping-pong. There’s an old story in The FADER about The Tough Alliance, how they were polite and unassuming in person, but when they’d perform they didn’t bring microphones; instead, they’d yell and swing baseball bats at the crowd. Released that same year, his debut was an instant if divisive sensation, particularly in the United States. “He constantly spoke enthusiastically about how culture was at a tipping point, that we can do whatever we want musically and in business, because we were living in the cultural Wild West.”, At the same time, Lean’s father was flying to visit Lean in the hospital, where he stayed for four days. 11. in his arm, digging a grave. It's an endlessly complicated position, and many fail. He died in the car. “Neon signs and palm trees and guys doing steroids, tight fucking tank tops and fast cars,” he says. 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 Please select your region North America Rest of the World Rest of the World London Koko (May 6) We need new things.”. Avner suggested they go running together once a week. 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. They were signed alongside Avner to the label The Tough Alliance created, Sincerely Yours, and, altogether, helped make up a formative, bratty scene in Yung Lean’s development. 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. He plays me a few of the demos. But it’s an idea that also comes from a privileged position, one that sidesteps rap music’s origin, so founded on the black, brown, and Latino experience — and the experience in America, at that. He shares real experiences with Lil Wayne — the author of one of rap’s most vivid drug-abuse songs, “I Feel Like Dying” — and also Daniel Johnston, an American songwriter who, like Lean, is known for lyrics that are simple to the point of sounding naïve, and who, more to the point, has been diagnosed with schizophrenia associated with, and some say triggered by, an LSD trip that landed Johnston in a mental institution in 1986. Was his music tongue-in-cheek, intentionally bad in an attempt to mock how hollow the genre had become? What do you call it? “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. And there was Emilio Fagone, Lean’s 29-year-old primary manager, who’s been working with him since he was 16. Yung Sherman, Yung Lean, ECCO2k, and Bladee, in Stockholm. 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 Lean found himself slipping into characters that were hard to shake. Yung Lean talks about working with Frank Ocean In a new interview spot with MTV News, Yung Lean (Jonatan Leandoer Håstad) dishes the goodness on his collaboration with Frank Ocean on Blonde. r/sadboys: A sub-reddit dedicated to the Sadboys (SBE) and Drain Gang / Gravity Boys Shield Gang (GTBSG) music collectives. His place is homey, with big plants and bright light streaming through tall windows. On music blogs and in The New Yorker and The New York Times, he was treated like a puzzle to be solved. Yung Lean po zrobieniu prawdziwej furory w sieci nieco odszedł w cień przy pojawianiu się innych nowych twarzy. 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 “One day my dad was gonna pick me up from kindergarten,” Lean says. Reached by a phone number listed on his Senate campaign’s filing papers, Steven says he believed he was within his rights to release the Warlord demos because he helped fund their creation. Yung Lean Radio Interview Transcript. Yung Lean was in a mental hospital around this time last year. He and his friends often wound up in petty trouble, getting busted for doing graffiti, as happened with his producer Yung Sherman, or smoking weed, as happened with Lean. A Swedish hip-hop journalist claimed last September that Lean would guest on Frank Ocean’s long-awaited second album. Lean comes out to “Hoover” and the crowd knows every word. 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. 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. The video for “Miami Ultras” was filmed in the countryside of Sweden after Lean’s recovery. Posted by 2 days ago. 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. Currently in demo stage, with 12 tracks so far, Lean says it will be produced by Kendal Johansson, who worked with The Tough Alliance. At some point on April 7, 2015, Barron left Bladee and Lean in the condo. Yung Lean says he wants to open a “Sopranos-style” restaurant Yung Lean might be taking a page out of Artie Bucco's book, according to a new interview between him and FKA twigs. 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. an old story in The FADER about The Tough Alliance. When Lean started taking ecstasy a few years later, he got into the group JJ, who incorporated drum samples and quotations of American rap lyrics with ambient music and dream-pop. “We had a rooftop party with Goth Money, Iceage, and Lust for Youth,” he remembers — an American rap group, a Danish punk band, and a Swedish electronic act. http://www.twitter.com/nardwuar 2 2. comments. Lean showed the book to Barron, and Barron told him it was too dark, that he shouldn’t be writing it. Poison Ivy. He’s shorter than his friends, puffier. Lean for his 18th birthday and discuss some of the more interesting details about the group. ©2021 The Fader, Inc. All rights reserved. 4 4. comments. Ever since he picked me up in Miami and we spent the summer together, we got really close. Stranger. 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. “If it was the ’70s, I'd be a punk artist. 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. That speculation can lie low for a little while, though, as Lean is currently mid-way through a world tour that visits these shores this week for three sold-out shows. The car twisted into the intersection, and the engine caught on fire. 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. Yung Lean is a rapper, singer and producer hailing from Stockholm, Sweden who was born on July 18th 1996. “[Most Swedish rappers] never tried to make their own thing. “I was in a mental hospital. There was Yung Sherman, then 20, one of his longtime producers and the sonic architect of Warlord, and Bladee, 21, a frequent collaborator who sings background vocals at Lean’s live shows. 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. “I just make videos and stuff, there's not much more to it than that. 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. He began to carry a knife. 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. 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. He says he loved Barron, who he calls “one of the most blessed guys I've ever met.” But he says there is a limit to his memory about what happened after he blacked out, and I sense there is also a limit to his comfort with talking about it. A list of fundraisers you can support right now. Sprawdźcie nowy klip do kawałka "Ghostrider". Was he commenting on consumerism, or was he just a wayward teen with a sweet tooth for Arizona Iced Tea? Why does yung lean also make music as Jonatan leandoer96?? Manchester Sound Control (7) A Swedish hip-hop journalist claimed last September that Lean would guest on Frank Ocean’s long-awaited second album, and, while he doesn’t name any names, Lean does reveal that when he met Kanye producer Mike Dean in London they “were working with a famous artist together. 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. The first is vintage Sincerely Yours, with guitars that are almost uncomfortably bright — picture you’re lying on the beach, which would be nice, except someone has stolen your sunglasses. Working with Sherman, Gud spent months reconstituting incomplete tracks, restructuring unsatisfactory ones, and calling in Lean to re-do vocal parts. Part of that is owing to the fact that, as his producers have grown from teenagers to adults, they’ve quite simply gotten better at making beats. Urodził się na Białorusi, wychował w Szwecji. “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. Its full title was Warlord (This Record is Dedicated to the Memory of Barron Alexander Machat (6/25/1987 - 4/8/2015)). W 2013 wydał mixtape, zatytułowany Unknown Death 2002. And then some guys from Odd Future came with their, like, skateboards, and they just looked at us and walked away. “We’d put music in the speakers, dance around the factory. “I wanted that album out to remember Barron,” he explains, expressing frustration that Lean had flown home before Barron was buried. Yung Lean approached American rap as an outsider, became infamous, and then tragedy struck. 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. Starz. YUNG LEAN: I remember that. “He was the most high-minded, cosmic person anyone ever met,” said d’Eon, once signed to Hippos in Tanks. Lean’s nose started bleeding, and he checked in on Snapchat; his girlfriend, back home in Sweden, happened to have a nosebleed, too. 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. “Like, ‘Yes, finally we can jump on a trend and jump off it next year. Yung Lean isn’t like other rappers. Change the profile pic to a yung lean album cover. It’s in that spirit that Lean has started work on a new album. One potential path, Gud suggests, is that of a “technical, educated, calculated producer like Max Martin,” a Swede whose work behind the scenes, assisting other artists, has made him one of music’s most prolific yet least public-facing hitmakers. “It has a really rough, beautiful vibe,” Sherman says. Lean’s team was predictably unhappy about the release: “They went nuts, ‘How can you put this out?’” Steven says. It's so vast and immersive, but it's also so infuriating what it does to the world.” After playing shows in America, he sees the place as “total anarchy, the worst of the worst and the best of the best,” especially compared to a small socialist country like Sweden. “Creep Creeps” is a single by Yung Lean and his first solo song of 2019. According to the video, Lean contributed to "Godspeed" where he has formerly been credited as a contributor on "Self Control." “I remember I felt like, Why is he going to stay?” Sherman says now. B.C.’s Nardwuar the Human Serviette had a wonderfully candid interview with my hero Yung Lean and The Sadboys to catch up with Mr. “If everything that happened didn't happen, I guess like we could look back at Miami as a fun time,” Sherman says. In his apartment, I ask how he interprets the criticism. Lean – aka Swede Jonatan Leandoer Håstad – is a complex character; a persona that the internet was first exposed to in the beguiling video for his 2013 single ‘Ginseng Strip 2002’. He was 18, and, though usually based in Stockholm, had spent two months in the city, working for the first time in a professional studio. Yung Lean incorporated all three, in just three lines, on “Ginseng Strip 2002,” an early success with 10 million YouTube plays. You can’t always be on the top, you know?”. The files that came back from Miami were a total mess, with missing stems and distorted vocal takes. 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. They were like, ‘This party's too much.’”, Being in America, Lean says, always made him want to seize life to a superhuman degree. Yung Lean’s video for “Kyoto” has more than 13 million views on YouTube. 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. Let’s wear some Nikes and dance to Yung Lean, then he’ll be gone, the artist will be dead.’ I’m not a temporary artist. People that looked and sounded like Lean. For a wannabe rapper from Sweden, perhaps, to do something new you have to first be a little bit something you’re not. “It was very weird for me to sit in a studio, and outside the studio there was a big pool, and then there was a big sea.”, Perhaps as proof of his discomfort, the harsh, typhoon-sized beat for one of Warlord’s defining tracks, “Miami Ultras,” was composed not in the studio but on the pier beyond it. 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. 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. “We have this very firm idea of just keeping quiet, being useful, and taking exactly what's yours — preferably a bit less.” That poses a particular challenge for someone interested in life as an international musician, where competitiveness and self-promotion can be key. The music Lean is working on now is unique because, more than ever, it offers him the chance to speak as an insider. 961.5k Followers, 75 Following, 863 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from @yunglean2001 “You guys are us ten years later.”. He appears alone in hospital garb, bloodied, with an I.V. While Gud was cleaning up Warlord, Lean joined Sherman, Bladee, and whitearmor, another producer who helped out on the album, on an assembly line manufacturing shampoo. It’s a short, cold walk from the station to his second-floor studio apartment, reached by an outdoor hallway that overlooks a scraggly bit of leafless trees. How did his race play into the attention surrounding him, or how his lyrics were received? 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. 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. Warlord. “Back in the day we used to fight all the time,” Lean says. The new era was open for people that had not belong before. We've been away for so long, what is he going to do here now? Lean emerged at a transitional time in the way music is talked about online: sites that once trafficked MP3s now produce earnest thinkpieces. 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.

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