Yung Lean Quotes

Yung Lean

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 18, 1996

Shanghai was a peculiar city: so many people; everyone seemed to be working all the time. The skyline was beautiful.

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We can be a little less organized in Stockholm; it's not really that serious. And on the White Marble tour in Europe - I don't think there's as much hardcore fans as in the U.S. In the U.S., it's like this whole celebrity culture.

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I think a lot of American fans or people that read about us - they think that we're trying to be a part of the American culture, like all these Swedish kids that love America. We rap in English, so I guess there's something, but we're very Swedish, actually.

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I was brought up on Black Sabbath, David Bowie, 50 Cent, and Guru. And it all comes out in my own music somewhere.

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I made my first mixtape when I was 11.

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I don't like being told what to do.

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I'd like to live in a house in Miami and make music, or Brooklyn.

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When I was in fourth grade, I made a song about the part in Stockholm where we come from.

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After ten albums, I can reevaluate my life. Maybe then I'll settle down.

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I don't want to be a rapper that puts out, like, 600 songs a year.

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Scandinavian rap started in the '90s, off the back of Run DMC, and it was a bunch of Swedish dudes doing the same thing.

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I'm really like a rat in the rap game. I just drop stuff when I feel like it.

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I've always had jobs with hierarchies - wherever I worked, like McDonald's, or cleaning toilets. It's always been hard.

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I don't like political rappers.

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I didn't want to be a one-hit wonder. I really wanted to make albums that had a different aesthetic every album and a different sound.

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When I first broke out, everyone was like, 'OK, so is this a joke?' They had to wait until I sold out shows before newspapers started writing about it.

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In the U.S., everything is big - it's like looking through a magnifying glass.

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I've always been an outsider everywhere I go - I don't fit in with the Swedish rap community or the American rap community. But who cares?

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America is so much more 'show business.' For instance, you have Barack Obama. We have Fredrik Reinfeldt. Everyone in the world knows Barack Obama!

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