Yung Lean

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Yung Lean in St. Mary Magdalene Church in Stockholm (2013)

Yung Lean (born July 18, 1996 in Minsk , Belarus ; real name Jonatan Aron Leandoer Håstad ) is a Swedish rapper and music producer whose music is attributed to cloud rap . The "Lean" in his pseudonym alludes to the drug Purple drank (codeine), and to his last name (on his father's side) Leandoer . Together with producers Yung Sherman (Axel Tufvesson) and Yung Gud (Micke Berlander), he founded the Sad Boys in 2012 .

biography

Jonatan Leandoer Håstad is the son of the Swedish development worker and Belarusian expert Elsa Håstad and the Swedish writer, translator and literary critic Kristoffer Leandoer . His maternal grandparents are Swedish journalist Disa Håstad and British playwright Arnold Wesker . The father of Disa Håstad and thus the great-grandfather of Jonatan Leandoer Håstad is the Swedish politician Elis Wilhelm Håstad .

Career

Musical beginnings

Håstad was born in Minsk. When he was three years old, his parents moved from Belarus to Stockholm, he grew up in the Södermalm district . Even in his youth he was interested in hip-hop , with 50 Cents album Get Rich or Die Tryin ' making a lasting impression on him. Håstad met Yung Sherman and Yung Gud in a local park in Stockholm and a friendship developed between them as they shared the same taste in music. Together with other young people like rappers Bladee, Thaiboy Digital and Ecco2k and producer Whitearmor, they founded the Hash Boys.

However, a majority of the members of the Hash Boys soon lost interest again; Bladee, Thaiboy Digital, Ecco2k, White Armor and Yung Sherman later founded the Gravity Boys Shield Gang . Yung Lean, however, founded the Sad Boys in 2012 with the remaining Hash Boys Yung Sherman and Yung Gud . Yung Gud and Yung Sherman mixed the music in the trio, while Yung Lean wrote the lyrics and did the vocals. Yung Lean published the finished songs on his Soundcloud profile.

Further career from 2013

Yung Lean first gained public attention in 2013 at the age of 16 with his music video Ginseng Strip 2002 , which was released on YouTube . The video went viral and now has over 29 million views on the video platform. In the same year he placed his first official publications: The mixtape Unknown Death was released in 2002 on the New York music and streetwear label Mishka NYC on vinyl, CD and for free download. On the Extended Play Lavender he published three other songs, including Ginseng Strip 2002 , which he wanted to make available to a wider public without free download and which therefore did not fit on Unknown Death 2002 . The Chicago online music magazine Consequence of Sound listed Yung Lean's Ginseng Strip at # 44 in their "Top 50 Songs of 2013" in 2002 . The Vibe magazine took Unknown Death in 2002 in its list of "The 10 Most Overlooked debut rap mixtapes of 2013" and writable it this way:

"Relying less on concise lyrics, Yung Lean is a natural progression from the freely associative, often nonsensical rhymes of Lil 'B with a keener sense of melody."

"Even though he relies less heavily on the lyrics, Yung Lean naturally continues to develop the freely associated, often nonsensical rhymes of Lil 'B with a sharper sense of the melody."

- Max Weinstein : Vibe magazine

After Unknown Death was released in 2002 , Yung Lean went on a tour with the Sad Boys in the second half of 2013 that took him to six cities in Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands. In December 2013 he was one of five nominees for the P3 Guld 2014, the music award of Sveriges Radio P3 , in the hip hop / soul category.

Yung Lean on the Black Marble Tour at the Palisades, Brooklyn (July 2014)

In 2014 the White Marble Tour began, on which Yung Lean and the Sad Boys gave 25 concerts in various European cities in March and April. In May 2014. Yung Lean joined in studio PSL by Per Sinding-Larsen in Sveriges Television on. This was followed by the Black Marble tour of North America, which began in New York's Webster Hall in July 2014 and received friendly commentary in numerous newspapers and music magazines, including XXL and The New York Times . On the Black Marble Tour, the Sad Boys were partly accompanied by the Gravity Boys.

Yung Lean released his debut album Unknown Memory in September 2014. The album was followed by another tour of North America and Europe, which began on December 1, 2014 in New York on the almost sold-out main stage of Webster Hall.

Warlord

After the tour of the states, which was organized by his US manager Barron Machat , the then 18-year-old Yung Lean stayed in Machat's apartment in Miami Beach . Barron Machat was known for his experimental music label Hippos in Tanks in North America, and although none of Yung Lean's records were released on his label, he helped Lean build his own label, Sky Team. Steven Machat , the father of Barron Machat, is a well-known entertainment lawyer whose clients include Ozzy Osbourne and Bobby Brown . Along with Lean, his producer Yung Sherman, rapper Bladee, who also did the backing vocals on Lean's live performances, and Emilio Fagone, his manager, with whom he has worked since he was 16, were also in Miami and worked on the recordings on Lean's next album Warlord . After the recordings were finished, Sherman and Fagone flew back to Stockholm; Lean stayed in Miami with Bladee.

Bladee performing with Yung Lean in Toronto on the Warlord Tour (March 2016)

At that time, Lean was losing control of its drug use. In addition to Lean , he also consumed Xanax , marijuana and cocaine , the combined effects of these drugs in particular causing his mind to drift into roles that he could hardly shake off again. So he began to dress in surgical clothing as a nurse. On the nights he couldn't sleep, he wrote down gloomy childhood nightmares about people turning into rats. On April 7, 2015, Lean had a nosebleed ; his girlfriend, who was in Sweden and with whom he communicated on Snapchat , also had a nosebleed at the same time. High on drugs and overwhelmed with connectedness, Lean lost touch with reality and began destroying the furniture and glass in Machat's apartment. Because he also injured himself in the process, Bladee had him taken to the hospital. Lean developed anxiety there because he didn't have his hard drive with the music recordings with him. After midnight, it was April 8th, he reached Machat and asked him to take the hard drive to the hospital. On the way, Machat, who had consumed Xanax that night, hit a traffic light pole at almost 100 km / h and his car caught fire. While his co-driver, the producer Hunter Karman, was rescued, Machat died at the scene of the accident.

Lean's father Kristoffer Leandoer brought him back to Sweden and nursed him in isolation in the country. After about two months, Lean returned to Stockholm, still on drug treatment. Meanwhile, Yung Gud and Yung Sherman worked on the completion of the album. Parts of the recordings were missing or unusable, so that Lean had to re-record vocal parts. In November 2015, the video for Hoover , the album's first single, was released. The single itself went on sale on January 20, 2016, and Lean announced the release of the album next month and an international tour that would also take it to America. Yung Lean released his second album Warlord in February 2016. Shortly after the release of Warlord , another album entitled Warlord (This Record is Dedicated to the Memory of Barron Alexander Machat (6/25/1987 - 4/8/2015 )) published on Spotify . Steven Machat was behind this release, who was involved in financing the album through the Hippos in Tanks label and who derived rights to the release from it. With the album he wanted to remember his son Barron; he was also frustrated that Lean had left for Sweden before his son's funeral. However, following Lean's intervention, Steven Machat withdrew the publication.

Side projects

Yung Lean is the vocalist of the Swedish-speaking punk band Död Mark , of which his friend and sad boy Yung Gud is also a member. In November 2016 the duo released their debut album Drabbad av Sjukdom on Lean's label Year0001. The album was presented on Sveriges Radio .

Musical development and reception

Yung Lean's flabby and listless rap style has been the subject of controversy. His music and song ideas are built around the idea of ​​a sad or emotional atmosphere. The Fact magazine has Unknown Death 2002 seen as follows:

“It's these beats that set Lean apart from other cloud-skating wannabes, and his Sad Boys especially have cooked up a logical continuation of Clams Casino and Beautiful Lou 's innovative techniques, emerging with thick, melancholy numbers that drip with a rare [... ] and earnest allure. "

"It's this rhythm that sets Lean apart from other would-be cloud riders, and its Sad Boys have brought together a logical continuation of Clams Casinos and Beautiful Lou's innovative techniques that come out with dense, melancholy numbers with a rare and sincere appeal."

- Fact magazine

In 2013, Fact published another article entitled “Rise of the Sad Boys: from Compact to Yung Lean, a history of how electronic musicians have worn their sadness on their sleeves” (Eng. “Rise of the Sad Boys: from Compact to Yung Lean , a story of how electronic musicians carried their sadness on their tongue ") where they claimed," [Yung Lean] 's mixtape Unknown Death 2002 is the epitome of sad rap "(Eng." [Yung Lean's] mixtape Unknown Death 2002 is the epitome of Sad Rap ”).

Yung Lean is known for his fashion, he often wears bucket hats. Vice wrote: "Yung Lean Is Going to Do Bucket Hats Like Mac Miller Did the Snapback " (Eng. "Yung Lean wears the bucket hat like Mac Miller the snapback cap").

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
SE SE
2018 Poison ivy SE44 (1 week)
SE
Mixtape
first release: November 2nd, 2018
2020 Starz SE39 (1 week)
SE
First published: May 15, 2020

More albums

  • 2013: Lavender (EP)
  • 2014: Unknown Memory on the Sky Team label ( Cargo Records )
  • 2016: Warlord on the Year0001 label
  • 2017: Stranger on the Year0001 label
  • 2019: Total Eclipse (EP)

More mix tapes

  • 2013: Unknown Death 未知 の 死 2002 (Label: Мишка)
  • 2016: Frost God (Label: Year0001)
  • 2018: Poison Ivy (Label: Year0001)

Singles

  • 2013: Marble Phone ( feat. Kreayshawn )
  • 2013: Kyoto (prod.Yung Gud)
  • 2014: Yoshi City
  • 2015: Crystal Clear Ice
  • 2016: Hoover / How U Like Me Now? (feat. Thaiboy Digital)
  • 2017: Red Bottom Sky
  • 2017: Hunting My Own Skin
  • 2017: Skimask
  • 2018: Happy Feet
  • 2019: Red Velvet (feat.Bladee)
  • 2019: Creeps Creeps
  • 2019: First Class (feat.Taiboy Digital)
  • 2019: Blue Plastic
  • 2020: Boylife in EU

Web links

Commons : Yung Lean  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Yung Lean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leandoer Håstad, Jonatan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish rapper and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Minsk , Belarus