A biography for Yung Leanhasn’t been written yet.
“I get energy from meeting people.”
“It's kind of beautiful to sit inside a bus and see a city from the windows.”
“As soon as my brain starts working on reading a book, my dreams get a little more exciting, and music comes a little more naturally for me.”
“I had a lot of space as a kid. My mother worked with human rights for the government, and my dad had a book publishing company, but they weren't really musical.”
“I'm not a very macho guy.”
“If it was the '70s, I'd be a punk artist. I was just born into hip-hop.”
“America is so much more 'show business.' For instance, you have Barack Obama. We have Fredrik Reinfeldt. Everyone in the world knows Barack Obama!”
“I can retire at a good age and still feel like I've done something.”
“Frank Ocean called me when I was in Stockholm when I was, like, 17.”
“I was brought up on Black Sabbath, David Bowie, 50 Cent, and Guru. And it all comes out in my own music somewhere.”
“I was in a mental hospital. That's all I wanna say. I don't wanna say anything more.”
“I don't think I could live anywhere else but Stockholm.”
“I do love my Gucci slides. I wear them inside. I'm like an old Russian man who wears slides in his house.”
“After ten albums, I can reevaluate my life. Maybe then I'll settle down.”
“I don't want to be a rapper that puts out, like, 600 songs a year.”
“I love Future. 'Turn on the Lights' is the best song ever. You can cry to it. You can relate to it.”
“I'm building an anarchistic society from the ground up.”
“When I first broke out, everyone was like, 'OK, so is this a joke?' They had to wait until I sold out shows before newspapers started writing about it.”
“I think people are scared of progress and change.”
“I didn't want to be a one-hit wonder. I really wanted to make albums that had a different aesthetic every album and a different sound.”