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My Take
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.
Overview
Jonatan Aron Leandoer Håstad (born 18 July 1996), known professionally as Yung Lean, is a Swedish rapper. Yung Lean rose to prominence in 2013 with his song "Ginseng Strip 2002", which went viral on YouTube. Later that same year, he released his debut mixtape, Unknown Death 2002, and the following year, he released his debut studio album, Unknown Memory.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Yung Lean
- Name (Japanese)
- ヤング・リーン
- Reading
- やんぐ・りーん
- Born
- July 18, 1996 (age 29)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Rat
- Origin
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- rapper / singer / songwriter / record producer / composer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Rapper — see all → · Singer — see all → · More people from Sweden →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.