Put on a bucket hat, do the cooking dance, add some net art aesthetics and #90sKid pop cultural references, and you’ve got yourself a pretty banging rap video circa 2013. Technically, Yung Lean is from Sweden, but really, he’s a child of the internet, and as such, all of the above make appearances in “Hurt,” his new video, along with Super Smash Bros, Pokémon, and lots of Arizona iced tea. Shout out to holographic Mewtwo cards and 3D Pipes screensavers. Sad Boys forever.
This week, a Swedish 16 year-old named Yung Lean, previously known by blog scourers for March's half-viral video “Ginseng Strip 2002” – in which the bucket-hat-sporting white boy delivered rambling staccato half-raps about listening to R. Kelly and receiving oral sex from a Zooey Deschanel lookalike, over a gorgeous, sobbing…
"Yung Lean is part of rap’s long tradition of doing it all wrong," ANIMAL's Brandon Soderberg wrote about the Swedish internet rap darling a few months ago. Stylistically, maybe, but at Yung Lean's victory lap show last night in Brooklyn it was clear he's doing something right. His fans, pastel…
Here's a special fan rap video from Max Piff (rapper, producer) and Yung Jake (featured rapper, director). Absolutely best line is at 2:51 from Yung Jake regarding Larry David's please no stop n chat policy, because he's 2 real. And I say that with absolutely no bias despite being a Yung Jake…
