Songs We Love: Yung Lean, 'Agony'
A track from the rapper's latest album drags like slowly dripping syrup, as he introduces the listeners to nightmare apparitions only he can see.
by Steffanee Wang
Nov 15, 2017
1 minute
Yung Lean, or Jonatan Leandoer Håstad, makes hip-hop that likes to drift outside the lines. His early stuff, made at age 16, fell into the spacey, dreamy sub-realm of "cloud rap." The beats, meticulously crafted by his friends, Arizona iced tea and "mosquito [bite] tits." But his flow was the most (and least) interesting part about him: flat, offbeat monotony that many read to be mocking of the genre.
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