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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).
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
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.
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.
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...
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.
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
Yeah, I can see it coming. He’s in his experimental phase right now and I loved the Stardust album, there’s bound to be an absolute banger of an album coming up soon and it’s exciting yet nerve-racking how all of us are going to watch him reinvent hip hop once again.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
Thanks. My sons showed me yung lean's music and every time they put his music on, i feel good. Both my sons is also musician's. They grow up with a lot of music because that was what me and their father had in common, we love music. We are divorced but the music was good! Yung lean came to our little city (we live in Sweden) my sons went to the concert. It was a wild concert. Man, he have fans following him everywhere. My oldest son had a breakdown, they took him to the hospital tent. It was because of all the blinking lights. My sons father contacted somehow yung lean telling him he missed the concert snd he gave my son a signed record wishing he felt better ❤ I will never forget that. Its a documentarie about yung lean being in miami and everything that happened to him there, my sons showed me. After that i feel i like him even more. I really do. He is just fantastic.
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
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
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
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.
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...
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 !
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.
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
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.
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
My first concert ever was a Yung Lean concert in Brooklyn, back in 2014. It was so lit, you had no choice but to jump around with the rest of the crowd. At the end of the night everyone bum-rushed the staged for the last song. Imagine jamming out on stage with Lean for your 1st concert 🤩
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
Yung Leans story is truly fascinating. It's strange, but he's not really all that big in Sweden, even though, as I too see it, he really did leave a significant mark on the direction that rap was heading at the time. I'm honestly just glad that he's doing fine today and that he still is here to light up our presence and that he's still making msuic.
I really wanna hear the story behind that photo of Yung Lean at the Donda listening party. Like, has Kanye ever sat down and watched through Yung Lean videos? The idea is hilarious to me.
Why wouldn’t he have done that, Yung Lean’s worked with Travis, frank ocean, and other artists that are connected to Kanye, I’m sure he was already familiar with yung lean prior to a possible Donda 2 feature
It's crazy to see people make the claim that he paved the way for modern rap when he was clearly influenced by the artists that had his sound years before him. Namely, Lil B. His lyrics may not have been "sad" but the instrumentals and cadence are definitely where Yung Lean's was derived from.
Sir can you explain to me why at 2:14 that's literally the same speaker i have in my setup. This is beyond spooky, why in the world with so many better or more iconic speakers would you choose the MS20 for this video?
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
lean changed the entire modern sound and most people dont even realize it he was your favorite artists favorite artist before the underground was a huge thing
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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).
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
u a fucking dumbass bladee invented sweden (aswell as walking)
He invented Travis Scott
Yung lean invented me he’s my dad
frr
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.
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.
Wack
sounds about right for 2015 lean, glad he’s better now
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.
Hes coming to fvded in the park in vancouver this year, mad excited to see him live
Bout time they put some respect on Sweden's greatest export
Next to IKEA
Ikea in shambles
Who bladee?
Yung Lean and Volvos. Sweden is under appreciated!
This is why Avicii killed himself, because of comments like this
YOU CANT IMAGINE how much i needed someone to talk about yung lean, THANK YOU FOR BEING MY VOICE OUT THERE.
i recommend watching the vice documentary this was practically all said in the documentary just without the visuals and the length of the documentary
@@prod.jake739 DJ Billybool?
i agree, sadboys and lean projects defined the current point in my life
esp w all the tiktokers hopping on lean 😭
It’s not like there’s 36273773 videos about his story and a literal whole movie
This is a Volksgeist classic
Not even out yet bro, calm down
Gang
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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...
"OFWGKTA"??
@@lauens what?
@@lauens stands for Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All and its Tyler The Creators, Frank Oceans first group with a lot more artists
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.
@@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
goth money records*
@@mxrph5147 oh yeah true them too my bad
no saben Metro Zu??? before Goth Money bruh
& Space ghost purp
@@colourfulsouls 100%
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.
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
man dropped game changers 10 years ago, but he gonna do it again
hes getting his bag now from tik tok
hes a certified hit maker he been making game changers and we will get more
Check out his newest song it’s great
Yeah, I can see it coming. He’s in his experimental phase right now and I loved the Stardust album, there’s bound to be an absolute banger of an album coming up soon and it’s exciting yet nerve-racking how all of us are going to watch him reinvent hip hop once again.
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.
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I hope people actually pay the attention to STARZ that it deserves a masterpiece of an album
literally one of my favorite albums
Fell off after that
Although i like stranger more, Starz production is amazing especially boylife in eu and violence
i got STARZ tatted on me lol, good album fr
@@bigboss-qv7pe he literally didnt drop anything except a single after that ur trippin
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.
That's actually really nice
These kids pitched you commercial garbage, you were witnessing the death of rap in front of your eyes
I'm not an old head btw but Grimes? Tf
@@bigboss-qv7pe clownin
@@bigboss-qv7pe that was the most pathetic thing i heard today
As a long time Lean fan, thank you for making this breakdown. Quite on point. The honesty quotes are moving.
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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.
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Incredible video boss.
Bladee next?
On god
@LtJem bn2m blew up already ..... but not to the same extent as ginseng strip ig
I Need That
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Yeah, we've lost too many young artists, we gotta be grateful for Leandoer still creating new art.
Facts
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
love to see you doing better and loving your life, keep going yo
Holly shit man that’s one hell of a life story
Congrats on getting clean and finding yourself ❤️
@@RealityBoat actin like he dead/retired he not even at halftime 🤣
Many of us out there brother, similar story for me Lean's and others music kept me going through it. Things are looking up
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
true, they are truly geniuses as well, changed producing and beatmaking too
every day we get closer to an episode on bladee
need a dj billybool documentary
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.
You’re saying that like it has never happened before☠️☠️☠️
unrelated, but the Ecstatic profile pic is fire
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.
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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.
The visuals are so sick here, such a well done video. Love the commentary and mellow vibe throughout. Immaculate.
This is unexpected but great!
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
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.
chills, definitely one the greatest videos i've ever seen from you
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
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
I have zero attachment to any “celebrity”…except Leandoer. Him, I would die for.
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.
6:14 a double ad after mentioning Barrons death is mad
can't believe yung lean created music
Thanks. My sons showed me yung lean's music and every time they put his music on, i feel good. Both my sons is also musician's. They grow up with a lot of music because that was what me and their father had in common, we love music. We are divorced but the music was good! Yung lean came to our little city (we live in Sweden) my sons went to the concert. It was a wild concert. Man, he have fans following him everywhere. My oldest son had a breakdown, they took him to the hospital tent. It was because of all the blinking lights. My sons father contacted somehow yung lean telling him he missed the concert snd he gave my son a signed record wishing he felt better ❤ I will never forget that.
Its a documentarie about yung lean being in miami and everything that happened to him there, my sons showed me. After that i feel i like him even more. I really do. He is just fantastic.
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
Listening to GS2002 in 2013 man, What a time to be alive.
SBE FOREVER
Stranger is my #1 album of all time, beautiful music with beautiful memories tied in from my life. Long Live Lean.
Will never forget hearing Lean for the first time in 2013 in a friends car. Knew it was something special
Lets not forget lil b. The one true pioneer of this kind of music imo
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
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
i never even heard of this dude until a month or so back and he out here changing hip hop forever
Thank you! Yung Lean finally getting the respect he deserves.
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.
literally so proud of him
i love yung lean so much, eversince i started listening to him in 2015, my life has changed.
eversince you say ?
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...
40 year olds listen to Yung Lean. It’s a thing
I’m 44 and I fuck with Leans music
excellent video, leandoer would be proud
LOVE TO SEE DUDE FINALLY GETTING HIS RECOGNITION
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.
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
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.
Thanks!
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.
fr
Cause he got famous again because of Tiktok.
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.
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.
Thanks alot for making this video!
Thanks for watching fam
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!
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
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.
I can’t be the only one that if you played this back before it blew up again and no one knew it you would get clowned
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 !
Thank you for this video king
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.
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
@@TheFearlessGoat thanks man, what's your fav album of his?
Agony is a great song. Love the beach fossils cover too
With this video out, you should do a video on Drain Gang. Would be interesting to hear more about the swedish cloud rap scene.
This deserves more views
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.
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+1 to the point at 11:43 about having gratitude that we're still able to get new Yung Lean music/projects 🙏
Lean and Lil B are the most influentials rappers of last 20 years.
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
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.
My first concert ever was a Yung Lean concert in Brooklyn, back in 2014. It was so lit, you had no choice but to jump around with the rest of the crowd. At the end of the night everyone bum-rushed the staged for the last song. Imagine jamming out on stage with Lean for your 1st concert 🤩
Damn lol well I’m glad it ended with you up on the stage and not, you know, astroworld style 😔
Praying that we get a Drain Gang video someday 🙏🏼
Listening to yung lean in 2013/2014 was amazing
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
Yung Leans story is truly fascinating. It's strange, but he's not really all that big in Sweden, even though, as I too see it, he really did leave a significant mark on the direction that rap was heading at the time. I'm honestly just glad that he's doing fine today and that he still is here to light up our presence and that he's still making msuic.
"Lean leaned" made me chuckle lmaoo
My Big bro showed me lean when I was like 11-12 dude is such a big influence on so many people and their music
I really wanna hear the story behind that photo of Yung Lean at the Donda listening party. Like, has Kanye ever sat down and watched through Yung Lean videos? The idea is hilarious to me.
Why wouldn’t he have done that, Yung Lean’s worked with Travis, frank ocean, and other artists that are connected to Kanye, I’m sure he was already familiar with yung lean prior to a possible Donda 2 feature
I never though Lean was nihislistic, actually I always found his tunes so optimistic.
It's crazy to see people make the claim that he paved the way for modern rap when he was clearly influenced by the artists that had his sound years before him. Namely, Lil B. His lyrics may not have been "sad" but the instrumentals and cadence are definitely where Yung Lean's was derived from.
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great video! you need to make a video on Black Kray
If man doesn't mention Bladee & Ecco, we ga fight 🥊🥊
I have some bad news😭
@@Volksgeist seperate video on them ??😳😳
Don’t forget thaiboy digital as well bro
Bladee is garbage
@@joemomma6317 bladee wipes ur fave
Such a great documentarian! Keep going brother! 😊
Yassss Queen! Looking forward to it
can't believe im barely watching this, thank u
Sir can you explain to me why at 2:14 that's literally the same speaker i have in my setup. This is beyond spooky, why in the world with so many better or more iconic speakers would you choose the MS20 for this video?
Wow. Great video ❤. Thank you for making this!
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
lean changed the entire modern sound and most people dont even realize it he was your favorite artists favorite artist before the underground was a huge thing
Understanding Barry Dillon.
Bro, this was a great video
Äntligen Jonathan!
i think agony is one of the most emotional songs ever a lot of ppl honestly just dont understand his music dude is a genius
shit, agony got me crying again
Great video man! Lean is the goat!
He might’ve influenced people like JOJI but thats it… what makes y’all think that SPECIAL EFFECTS on video was brought by or popularised by Yung Lean.
It's crazy how ahead of his time Yung Lean was. I still bump Kyoto to this day.
Agony is one of the greatest songs ever, period.
I feel this way about Corbin aka Spookyblack dude is so good.
Amazingly well done video 💜