A biography for Yung Leanhasn’t been written yet.
“In the U.S., everything is big - it's like looking through a magnifying glass.”
“I'm really like a rat in the rap game. I just drop stuff when I feel like it.”
“Scandinavian rap started in the '90s, off the back of Run DMC, and it was a bunch of Swedish dudes doing the same thing.”
“I just make videos and stuff. There's not much more to it than that. I'm a musician trying to express myself.”
“I don't like party music. I like emotional music.”
“The first idea is always the best.”
“I guess I'm just proud that I kept on working, not becoming just a viral hit.”
“I like working with my hands, need to do that more often.”
“I've always had jobs with hierarchies - wherever I worked, like McDonald's, or cleaning toilets. It's always been hard.”
“I don't know what I wear. I don't think much about fashion.”
“I have to pay a huge price to express myself. You get people asking to take photos all the time; you can't ride the subway... I still ride the subway, but there's always people sneaking photos or coming up to you.”
“I worked flipping cheeseburgers and Big Mac's at McDonald's, purchased a microphone, and cleared all the stuff out of my basement and started making music.”
“Yung Lean is like water: he's always changing due to the temperature, how he's feeling.”
“You can't really run from your roots.”
“Lean just follows his heart wherever it wants to go.”
“My parents were definitely encouraging with creativity.”
“I don't associate myself with anything. I don't associate myself with where I'm from or where I am.”
“I made my first mixtape when I was 11.”
“I'm in my own little world. I don't get invited into galas; I don't meet other people that I don't find interesting. I hang with my friends all the time, and we do exactly what we like.”
“I'm really into, like, characters - music characters like Sid Vicious and Kurt Cobain - just, like, how they are and stuff. Like Lil Wayne.”