A decade after first emerging from the deep-fried internet, the rapper born Jonatan Leandoer Håstad is sober, meditating, ...

TikTok has released its 2022 wrap-up, and it looks like Swedish rapper Yung Lean’s 2013 hit “Ginseng Strip 2002” has earned the top spot on the platform’s “Around The World” Global Top 10 (it ranked ...

Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song. Yung Lean is grown now. It’s been a decade since “Ginseng Strip 2002,” and he's no longer a 15-year-old kid in an oversized bucket hat shyly ...

Rap circles on the internet—WorldStarHipHop, VladTV, wherever teenagers spend time online—live for the hype cycle, falling mouse over Macbook for a young artist with an eccentric, fully-formed debut.

Content warning: Lyrics pertaining to depression, drug addiction and suicide. If you or someone you know is dealing with mental illness, you can find support at the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

In a bucket hat and suburban dad windbreaker, Håstad hangs on stairwells and convenience stores, dreaming of the evening’s heavy intoxication. “Yung Lean, up in this club for some morphine,” he sings ...