Is the deeply strange Swedish rapper a parody or a homage? Either way, his third album is full of addictive tunes
Few artists seem as likely to reduce unsuspecting listeners to a profound state of WTF? as Jonatan Leandoer Håstad, better known as Yung Lean. A baby-faced 21-year-old rapper from Stockholm, who rose to prominence aged 16 thanks to a viral YouTube video, his lyrical shtick, delivered in a voice that veers between Nordic and faux-American, is based on a combination of drizzly Drake-ish solipsism (the crew he heads is known as the Sad Boys) and mumbly depictions of a lifestyle based around an arsenal of drugs including weed, cocaine, ecstasy, Percocet and the cough syrup-laced drink from which he takes his name.
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