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@DrownedinDesigner

2 жыл бұрын

Bladee documentary when?

Glad you didn't say that he popularised bucket hats and vaporwave. So many videos say that, and it's just so stupid. He did a lot more for culture (like inventing Sweden).

@startervisions

2 жыл бұрын

Right...Macintosh Plus along with a Fantano review popularized vaporwave...and Schoolboy Q popularized bucket hats...but let's be honest, Lean did bring those aesthetics to an audience that probably wouldn't have found it otherwise

@barramundi2997

2 жыл бұрын

u a fucking dumbass bladee invented sweden (aswell as walking)

@lindboknifeandtool

2 жыл бұрын

He invented Travis Scott

@base4yrface

2 жыл бұрын

Yung lean invented me he’s my dad

@etn

2 жыл бұрын

frr

Bout time they put some respect on Sweden's greatest export

@briancruz3551

2 жыл бұрын

Next to IKEA

@gardenboydon

2 жыл бұрын

Ikea in shambles

@adamsand8377

2 жыл бұрын

Who bladee?

@DABIDZNISS

2 жыл бұрын

Yung Lean and Volvos. Sweden is under appreciated!

@ZhangK71

2 жыл бұрын

This is why Avicii killed himself, because of comments like this

I went to a Yung Lean concert in the 10th or 11th grade. Must’ve been about 2015. He was about an hour late to do his set which lasted for all of 20 minutes and was just mumbling with absolutely none of his hits being played. One of the best times of my life honestly.

@NICKHAM16

2 жыл бұрын

That’s wild! I saw him in 2014 on the Unknown Memory tour in Seattle, and he played a full set and absolutely killed it. My friends and I stood outside in the rain for an hour after the show to meet him. Crazy to think he was only 18 at the time. He was a super nice guy too.

@user-pj2yq5vb6n

2 жыл бұрын

Wack

@gone_def3120

2 жыл бұрын

sounds about right for 2015 lean, glad he’s better now

@zerohours.

2 жыл бұрын

If you watch the documentary you'll see they were off they heads on an army of drugs. Shit kinda falls apart after awhile haha.

@payne6962

2 жыл бұрын

Hes coming to fvded in the park in vancouver this year, mad excited to see him live

YOU CANT IMAGINE how much i needed someone to talk about yung lean, THANK YOU FOR BEING MY VOICE OUT THERE.

@prod.jake739

2 жыл бұрын

i recommend watching the vice documentary this was practically all said in the documentary just without the visuals and the length of the documentary

@reidr7288

2 жыл бұрын

@@prod.jake739 DJ Billybool?

@Eversinc3

2 жыл бұрын

i agree, sadboys and lean projects defined the current point in my life

@etn

2 жыл бұрын

esp w all the tiktokers hopping on lean 😭

@agatka3

2 жыл бұрын

It’s not like there’s 36273773 videos about his story and a literal whole movie

Seeing a Yung Lean music video for the first time in Summer 2013...it wasn't like finding OFWGKTA in 2010 or listening to Live.Love.A$AP in 2011...it really did feel a little bit more futuristic and alien...

@lauens

2 жыл бұрын

"OFWGKTA"??

@startervisions

2 жыл бұрын

@@lauens what?

@yeetyeet3415

2 жыл бұрын

@@lauens stands for Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All and its Tyler The Creators, Frank Oceans first group with a lot more artists

@zerohours.

2 жыл бұрын

It also felt like you were the only one who listened to it along with a bunch of anons online. It made you feel nostalgic for a memory that had yet to happen. Somehow you got it, without having to "get" it.

@whatareyoudoingthis4

2 жыл бұрын

@@lauens Fuck you're young lmfao

drain gang, sad boys, goth boy clique, and team sesh are all insanely influential and i feel like it isnt talked about nearly enough

@mxrph5147

2 жыл бұрын

goth money records*

@astra4312

2 жыл бұрын

@@mxrph5147 oh yeah true them too my bad

@losdel9761

2 жыл бұрын

no saben Metro Zu??? before Goth Money bruh

@colourfulsouls

2 жыл бұрын

& Space ghost purp

@astra4312

2 жыл бұрын

@@colourfulsouls 100%

This is a Volksgeist classic

@user-gz1nv6nw3q

2 жыл бұрын

Not even out yet bro, calm down

@angusgallaher4691

2 жыл бұрын

Gang

@CJ-yg3zj

2 жыл бұрын

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Miami Ultras genuinely changed my outlook on life and drugs. The music video of him digging his own grave hit me so deeply it genuinely gives me shivers just thinking about the beat.

@CJ-yg3zj

2 жыл бұрын

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@CJ-yg3zj

2 жыл бұрын

🔴🔵🟡One of the people who Yung Purge has the Trapoween look kzread.info/dash/bejne/l2Wml9SPoLW5oMY.html

I hope people actually pay the attention to STARZ that it deserves a masterpiece of an album

@user-my9hz2fp9w

2 жыл бұрын

literally one of my favorite albums

@bigboss-qv7pe

2 жыл бұрын

Fell off after that

@cmarin342

2 жыл бұрын

Although i like stranger more, Starz production is amazing especially boylife in eu and violence

@marianruzicka8608

2 жыл бұрын

i got STARZ tatted on me lol, good album fr

@bylucarenaud

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigboss-qv7pe he literally didnt drop anything except a single after that ur trippin

Many say that his prime is behind him, his “time in the spotlight” but I tell you all now. His peak hasn’t even began yet. That man is going to enter his genius phase one day and drop some genre breaking game changer that will flip the gang. Viva Los SadBoys

@MFDUZIE

2 жыл бұрын

man dropped game changers 10 years ago, but he gonna do it again

@MindaugasKuzminskas966

2 жыл бұрын

hes getting his bag now from tik tok

@culting

2 жыл бұрын

hes a certified hit maker he been making game changers and we will get more

@Light-qp4dk

2 жыл бұрын

@@MindaugasKuzminskas966 so fucking whack

@conze3029

2 жыл бұрын

Check out his newest song it’s great

Yung lean is one of the most influential people from the last 20 years

@Interredband

2 жыл бұрын

U mean the last 100 years

@jfarriola

2 жыл бұрын

@@Interredband You mean of all time?

@Interredband

2 жыл бұрын

@@jfarriola ye

@ThecrazyJH96

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@youcantberacisttowardswhit3917

2 жыл бұрын

to yt people

I remember people thought I was weird as fuck for listening to yung lean, but he completely shaped 2013-2015 for me, high school was a blast.

As a long time Lean fan, thank you for making this breakdown. Quite on point. The honesty quotes are moving.

@CJ-yg3zj

2 жыл бұрын

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I taught high school Digital Design to 9th thru 12th as a 25/26 year old in 2014/2015. I was also a well known “retired” rapper in my small town so a lot of the students would bring their favorite artists in for me to listen to (it started as a meme and them teasing and quickly turned into a Friday tradition). As a STUDENT of hip hop growing up, I completely related with their passion and excitement and loved seeing them light up while exposing someone older, someone “new” to their favorite artists. I found out about Yung Lean, suicide boys, death grips, grimes and so many alternative and indie artists and groups. I also got to share a ton of artists that they’d never heard of that some of them ended up really appreciating.

@cezonnn

2 жыл бұрын

That's actually really nice

@bigboss-qv7pe

2 жыл бұрын

These kids pitched you commercial garbage, you were witnessing the death of rap in front of your eyes

@bigboss-qv7pe

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not an old head btw but Grimes? Tf

@chipkipperly1698

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigboss-qv7pe clownin

@l3goo00s4

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigboss-qv7pe that was the most pathetic thing i heard today

The reason why I'm such a huge fan of Mr. Lean's work is that I feel like I grew up with him through listening to his music. When Unknown Death dropped, I was a Sophomore in high school, and I still haven't found my clique. I became fascinated with the Solarflare music video, and Lean's Bape hoodie from that music video got me into fashion. A few months later, Yoshi City dropped, and the song got me into music production. I feel like I owe a lot to Yung Lean and his crew because they made me the person that I am today. Seeing his growth from Unknown Death to Unknown Memory to the later albums is super inspiring. His music is truly an art, and I can't wait to see what he has in store for us.

@CJ-yg3zj

2 жыл бұрын

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lean is so incredibly fucking relatable, well except being a rapper part when he first blew up in 2013 i knew this was it, i was sad angsty lonely depressed and never left the house later i started living a fantasy, i turned my life 180, what i thought was for good, i was popular even but i spent years in a drug fueled rage, i was dragging down others around me, i suffered so much and i lost my best friend finally, i went to rehab, got back to my parents place, i get therapy, focus on mental health, work on my traumas, i even began gender transition, which something ive always wanted, but never got the courage to do

@fawebs6115

2 жыл бұрын

love to see you doing better and loving your life, keep going yo

@RealityBoat

2 жыл бұрын

Holly shit man that’s one hell of a life story

@korho6283

2 жыл бұрын

Congrats on getting clean and finding yourself ❤️

@AyeBeeG

2 жыл бұрын

@@RealityBoat actin like he dead/retired he not even at halftime 🤣

@daiboino12

2 жыл бұрын

Many of us out there brother, similar story for me Lean's and others music kept me going through it. Things are looking up

Kyoto remains as one of the most ahead of it's time song i heard, and it translate to the music video with the crazy editing and effects that were yet to be seen until years later once the psychedelic themed music became mainstream by the hand of artists such as Kanye and Travis Scott. I'm glad one of my favorite artist is a study subject each time he drops.

@CJ-yg3zj

2 жыл бұрын

🔴🔵🟡 Im glad that Yung Purge is still Trapoween look kzread.info/dash/bejne/l2Wml9SPoLW5oMY.html

this has to be one of the most underrated channels ever, the quality of the video and sound is amazing

@CJ-yg3zj

2 жыл бұрын

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The visuals are so sick here, such a well done video. Love the commentary and mellow vibe throughout. Immaculate.

really good job on this video man i have been sad and drained since the beginning and this is the only video like this that has not made me mad as far as people covering these guys

Yung Lean is such an inspiration to every youngin’ from the the Nordic countries or Europe in general tbh. His story proves that any random kid from a ”random” European country can have global success.

@saandvi

Жыл бұрын

You’re saying that like it has never happened before☠️☠️☠️

Thank you for talking about whitearmor and gud, these dudes are probably some of the best producers ever and I feel like people dont talk to about them enough. From making the insanely good early hits for lean and the awesome beats for drain gang as well I feel like their contribution is unparalleled into what yung lean and drain gang have become today

@cyberjunkie2880

2 жыл бұрын

true, they are truly geniuses as well, changed producing and beatmaking too

chills, definitely one the greatest videos i've ever seen from you

Incredible video boss. Bladee next?

@evanromano343

2 жыл бұрын

On god

@ConnorJem

2 жыл бұрын

Once Be Nice 2 Me blows up in 5 years then maybe he’ll make it.

@noah-po3vx

2 жыл бұрын

@@ConnorJem bn2m blew up already ..... but not to the same extent as ginseng strip ig

@brian.mp3924

2 жыл бұрын

I Need That

you deserve alot more subs mate, this quality/execution and authenticity is a genuine find. hope this message finds you. Hope creating content like this makes you happy because it is a treat for us viewers! love from Australia

every day we get closer to an episode on bladee

@mattghee2867

2 жыл бұрын

need a dj billybool documentary

Yeah, we've lost too many young artists, we gotta be grateful for Leandoer still creating new art.

@carlottarobinson8303

2 жыл бұрын

Facts

This is unexpected but great!

a few days ago i went to a technology store and yung lean was pumping out the speakers... felt so weird but so right at the same time hearing his music play in the mainstream

Stranger is my #1 album of all time, beautiful music with beautiful memories tied in from my life. Long Live Lean.

As someone who discovered yung lean ginseng strip during my 1st acid trip and learning his influence from a friend back in 2013 it blew my mind how important he is culturally now so this is refreshing to see thank you

when the fader article about yung lean was released it felt wrong whenever i see lean being boiled down as just just sadboy and vaporwave post fader article, he's been through a lot and i'm really glad this video explained lean more than what is in the surface when he just come up to the spotlight again

Just found your channel man. This video is dope. Cant wait to get more into your uploads. You are super knowledgeable and get your ideas across in a super easy way to understand. "I'd rather you hate me for who I am, than love me for who I am not." That is such a great quote and not corny at all.

@Volksgeist

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

awesome video. u should make a video about black kray/sickboyrari and his influence on trap..1 of the most underrated yet influential artists in rap...

Wow. Great video ❤. Thank you for making this!

awesome video i felt some of your points were a little vague and at times it went off topic but i really enjoyed how much you were able to find out about his life

Thank you for making this video. For yung lean fans this is the voice we needed. Despite knowing this story already, it nearly brings me to tears hearing it again, without knowing anything about me he has changed my life beyond comprehension. Sadboys and DG forever

As a bipolar person who has had manic episodes, I find comfort in the themes in Lean's music. It reminds me that even when things are hazy and confusing you can find meaning in chaos.

Holy sh*t, this story moved me I love the way you told the story with the way you worded it and delivered it, you portrayed the story in just the right way to move me emotionally. Thank you

Lean early on found ways to connect realities that shouldn’t really be together. The mind of young creator, scrambling through 100s of references managing to paint pictures with the help of wondrous sound. In the US it’s all money/hoes/clothes, Yung Lean was opposite, melancholic. He was able to paint pictures about himself & in Leanworld the imagery of going through a Disney like kingdom was what really hit me as a listener. Sound & idea melded so perfectly together that a shared dream was achieved. Listening now, it’s gnarly to look back at the topics he touched on. What originally was loud & in your face, seems the opposite. Yung Lean, the sadboys are all craftsmen that were uniquely themselves in a world of stealing styles & copying beats.

With this video out, you should do a video on Drain Gang. Would be interesting to hear more about the swedish cloud rap scene.

Finally someone to shed light on Lean after a long time, imo he will always stay underrated, but I like it that not everyone listens to him, the music stays underground in a way.. Been a fan since Kyoto came out

Thank you for this video king

Absolutely love Starz. Thanks for the video

I love Stanger! That album helped me! I got to tell Lean this on his tour and he looked like he wanted to cry it was so sweet Lean forever!

Listening to GS2002 in 2013 man, What a time to be alive. SBE FOREVER

Man i always loved ur vids but it was kinda a long time ago i watched one from urs. And just now u popped up with this banger lean vid. Love u man keep it up

Thanks alot for making this video!

@Volksgeist

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching fam

Agony is a great song. Love the beach fossils cover too

Thank you! Yung Lean finally getting the respect he deserves.

@TrizollinTehWorld

2 жыл бұрын

I recall him being pretty big back when I was in high school. Everyone was bumping his shit but I didn't lol I still haven't heard anything from him yet but I'll check it out.

beautiful video, thank you

Amazing video. thank you

Thanks for the vid.I grew up with lean, I’m 2 years younger than him, started with unknown memory and listened to all of his projects. Overall I think the most mature and most musically sound album has to be starz it feels less rough more mainstream and is still true to form. My favourite album is probably poison ivy, I can loose myself in the dreamy vocals and cloudy beats, I can dance to and play some tracks from PI at parties. Overall lean has been with me since the age of 16, listening to his old projects feels like being a teenager in the summer and smoking way too much weed with my friends. Listening to his more mature albums (everything from frost god) is like a coming of age story for me I can always tell in which stage of life I’ve been and what I did when I listened to a new lean album. In a time where quarter life crisise are a thing and everyone texts instead of talks, our genoration has their very own problems and lean can bring them to a common denominator. Oh and Boylife in EU is so relatable for most of 20-25 yr old europeans.

@TheFearlessGoat

2 жыл бұрын

i got goosebumps reading this because i relate to it so much. i think thats why so many people love yung lean. its because we grew up with him and saw him become the person he is today

@deredelpenner

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheFearlessGoat thanks man, what's your fav album of his?

I really think the appeal for me with bladee and lean is that the vocals are very relatable you dont feel like hes trying to perform but more so get something out of his head fr no frills and that why i love these guys

@dunK1x

2 жыл бұрын

I feel that. Ecco said in a recent interview with FACE that they dont care to entertain anyone and they dont like marketing themselves because they wouldn’t be happy with that. So really everything they create, they stay true to themselves.

Been waiting for this

A couple of days ago a friend of mine met him in a restaurant in Stockholm and asked him to say hello for me on camera. She told me he was nice and even a bit shy. I’ve been listening to him for a long time and quite often, knew some separate stories from his life, but this event made me find out a bit more about his life story and understand how much this person changed in the industry. Thank you for the video

literally so proud of him

Praying that we get a Drain Gang video someday 🙏🏼

great vid bro D9

such a good essay, thank you!

This deserves more views

I think why stars is seen as “boring” is because I see it as lean accepting what happened and how he can’t go back but is still here and all to do is keep going forward and hoping for the future

Such a great documentarian! Keep going brother! 😊

Seeing a Yung Lean music for the first time in Summer 2014. When I was 14 . Yung Lean change my childhood, change my mind about rap. Change me when i broken. Tank you Yung Lean.

I've been a fan of lean's for years and its weird to me people are JUST catching on, especially with Starz and unknown death, I thought those records would have been a smash as far as popularity but not a lot of people talked about it compared to how much he's discussed now.

@sweeky1

2 жыл бұрын

fr

@Vmeen08

2 жыл бұрын

Cause he got famous again because of Tiktok.

@Enzaio

2 жыл бұрын

I think his music is just a bit too ahead of its time for the mainstream to pick up on it straight away. When I first listened to his music from 2013 in 2016, it felt futuristic and new and from a generation younger than me that I didn't quite understand. He's ahead of his time and his time is now slowly catching up.

@ConstantSuprises

6 ай бұрын

Nobody will tell it straight up, but: he was a weirdo and not popular in the start. That means normies hate it because its not part of the status quo and they can't play it at parties, because then ur associating with a wierdo. Now it hit a tipping point of popularity and positivity where those same people will tell you how they didnt understand it at first, and they didnt listen to it correctly (this just means you didnt want to be associated with him) or even have the nerve of telling others they always loved him and yappa yappa, they are so weak and they sicken me. This video sickens me as well, make this 8 years earlier and you get my respect, but now ur bandwagoning.

i love yung lean so much, eversince i started listening to him in 2015, my life has changed.

@trackstar1337

2 жыл бұрын

eversince you say ?

Great video where you really dived deep in the FACTS. can you do a video on drain gang? That would be awesome

great video, thank you vry much!

LOVE TO SEE DUDE FINALLY GETTING HIS RECOGNITION

As a huge yung lean fan, I wanna say that this is one of the best yl videos i've seen on youtube. You didn't try to categorize him and you did well on going all threw his career (main releases) in a short 15min youtube format. I relate on how you describe all his different eras, showing the interesting parts of them and the global evolution of his music. Once again a great video man !

Amazingly well done video 💜

Great video man

I feel this way about Corbin aka Spookyblack dude is so good.

i feel like starz is like a somber reflectioon of his past and accepting he isnt in that place in life anymore, and for future albums i feel hes going to become EVEN more creative because of that acceptance.

@CJ-yg3zj

2 жыл бұрын

🔴🔵🟡Yung Purge even has more Trapoween look kzread.info/dash/bejne/l2Wml9SPoLW5oMY.html

Great video, thank you!

Yoooooo, was listening to Lavender when I saw this. Hyped!

Lets not forget lil b. The one true pioneer of this kind of music imo

@silkyjohnson7599

2 жыл бұрын

Cloud rap fosho

10 years latter and Yung Lean still making music and still remains original. I got nothing but love for him. Also buy every album of his to show support and care

Excellent video, sir

"Lean leaned" made me chuckle lmaoo

Yassss Queen! Looking forward to it

great video man

Great video man! Lean is the goat!

i think a lot of artists who are known for “sad rap”/ discuss deep dark topics end up getting a bad rep when they no longer make that type of music. lean obviously, cudi, earl, mac (at least when he was alive). it’s sad to see, as artists drew from their personal life, feelings and mental state to have made the music those people once loved. people say “i need this person to start doing drugs again” or “i need this person to get their heart broken again”. i get its jokes but artists aren’t robots built for our amusement, they’re people like us who share their talent to the world.

shit, agony got me crying again

I LITERALLY GOOGLED FOR THIS 2 WEEKS AGO AND NOT MUCH CAME UP, U CAME IN CLUTCH

Great video bro

Lean and Lil B are the most influentials rappers of last 20 years.

can't believe yung lean created music

Honestly finding Yung Lean back when I was in Middle School (now in college)is going to go down as one of my biggest hidden gem finds

Great video!

Äntligen Jonathan!

He didn't call Barron and ask him to bring the cd. If you watch the doc, they talk about Barron just going to the store.

great video! you need to make a video on Black Kray

Great Video🖤

40 year olds listen to Yung Lean. It’s a thing

@EdHealey88

2 жыл бұрын

I’m 44 and I fuck with Leans music

he got influence for sure esp in cloud rap and internet music but his fans will say that the world changed with his breakout like no that was just a viral youtube video 😭 n then theyll give him credit for sumn somebody else already did before

Will never forget hearing Lean for the first time in 2013 in a friends car. Knew it was something special

FINALLY! So glad he's getting some recognition!