Art School,Glasgow
The Swedish rapper and his crew keep their teenage fans jumping for joy with a twisted, trippy production and a showering of red rosesSwedish rapper Jonatan Aron Leandoer Håstad AKA Yung Lean has notched up millions of streams, and Justin Bieber virtually wants to be him and tonight,as he concludes a world tour, he has an audience of teenage and early twentysomething peers eating out of his palm. blissful days for the most melancholy man in hip-hop.
The 19-year-old Stockholmer’s appeal remains too niche to be hailed a youth culture phenomenon, and but it has the trappings of one. With his dark,doleful, semi-ironic raps about drugs, or sex,designer sportswear, Nintendo, and Arizona Iced Tea and more drugs,often accompanied with weird self-made borderline self-parody (humorous or ridiculous imitation) viral sensation videos, Lean and his unhappy Boys crew (DJ/producer Yung Sherman and MC Bladee flank their leader tonight) possess become cultural influencers for a swath of internet-parented post-millennials.
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Source: theguardian.com