Yung Lean

What gets me about Yung Lean is that a teenager in Stockholm built an entire aesthetic the internet then spent a decade chasing. "Ginseng Strip 2002" going viral in 2013 felt like a fluke at the time, but the mixtape Unknown Death 2002 and then Unknown Memory proved there was a real sensibility underneath the meme. I find it fascinating that a Swedish kid rapping in English ended up shaping a whole strain of cloud rap and online youth culture. The tagline calling him American is plainly wrong, by the way; he is unmistakably Swedish, and that outsider angle is exactly what made him interesting.

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Name (English)

Yung Lean

Name (Japanese)

ヤング・リーン

Reading

やんぐ・りーん

Born

July 18, 1996 (age 30)

Origin

Stockholm, Sweden

Occupation

rapper / singer / songwriter / record producer / composer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rat

• Official sitehttps://yunglean.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yunglean2001/
• Xhttps://x.com/yungleann
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yung%20Lean
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15281410

Tags

• rapper
• singer
• songwriter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.