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Birth
Born Jonatan Leandoer Hastad on July 18th 1996, Yung Lean is currently 21 years old from Stockholm, Sweden. -
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Childhood in Belarus, pt. 1
When Yung Lean was 8 months old, his family moved from Sweden to Belarus, a small country bordering Russia. His father, Kristoffer Leandoer, was a poet, author and french translator. His mom was a human rights activist in Russia, Vietnam, and South America (Cooper). Their family moved their because his mom grew up in Russia and wanted Lean to have a similar childhood. -
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Childhood in Belarus, pt. 3
Jonatan would move back to Sweden in 2001, and later in life would drop out of high school sophomore year (Cooper). -
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Childhood in Belarus, pt. 2
But, Belarus was not a good experience for him; “One day my dad was gonna pick me up from kindergarten,” Lean says. “All the kids were playing, and he's like, ‘So where's my son? Where's Jonatan?’ They’re like, ‘Jonatan has not been good today,’ and he’s like, ‘But where is he?’ They point at the corner, and they’d put me in the corner with, like, a KKK hat. What do you call it? A dunce hat. I'd been standing there like that for maybe five hours.” -
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Childhood in Sweden and Vietnam, pt. 1
After moving from Belarus back to Stockholm for a short time, he eventually moved to Hanoi, Vietnam. Lean's mom worked for the Swedish Embassy and was moved to be the Ambassador in Vietnam. Jonatan's Dad really enjoyed Vietnamese culture and as such shared it with his family and children (Huyen). Lean's school problems would start here as he first got into trouble painting graffiti on a street (Serviette). But, in 2011, the Leandoer Family would move back to Stockholm (Huyen). -
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Childhood in Sweden and Vietnam, pt. 2
After moving back to Stockholm, Lean met his two producers in a park and quickly became friends. But, his school career would continue to suffer. His friends would routinely get in petty trouble for things such as smoking and painting graffiti, and eventually would drop out sophomore year in 2013 (Cooper). From this you can again infer that Lean has an expansive world view - not only has he lived in Belarus and Sweden, but also Vietnam. -
Yung Lean Interview with Nardwuar Serviette, pt. 1
In this video, Nardwuar (the interview) goes through Lean's life and some of his music influences. They then go through some of Jonatan's lyrics which included, "Popping pills like zits." Lean also described how he writes his lyrics, saying its "Like a mixture between a bit of real life and then just weird stuff, so yeah it could be based on like a real event, but just, you know, exaggerated." Nardwuar then gives him some gifts, and Lean gives Nardwuar a t-shirt. -
Yung Lean Interview with Nardwuar Serviette. pt. 2
The interview is then finished with Nardwuar asking Yung Lean why people should care about his music, to which he responded, "Because i'm the sh*t, b*tch." https://youtu.be/723ywF5faV4?t=11m29s -
"1987/06/25 - 2015/04/08" is posted on Youtube, pt. 1
On April 9th, 2015, this video was uploaded to the sad boys (Yung Lean's music group) youtube channel. The description reads "for our friend barron machat . rest in peace, we will always miss you ". Barron Machat was Yung Lean's music producer. At the time, Lean's music group was working in Miami on an album, and eventually Lean's addictions (including cocaine and xanax) caught up to him and he was hospitalized. -
"1987/06/25 - 2015/04/08" is posted on Youtube, pt, 2
He was worried about his album hard drive being lost, so he asked Barron to retrieve the hard drive and bring it to him at the hospital. Barron was on xanax at the time, and died in a car crash heading to the hospital. Lean then spent 6 months in a mental hospital in Sweden and took a break from music (Cooper). -
Instagram post of Yung Lean and Charlie Sheen, pt. 1
In this post from Yung Lean, he and Charlie Sheen stand outside of a building smoking cigarettes while Yung Lean flips off the camera. “I was working and he asked me for a lighter,” he said. “And then we started talking about going on a binge together. I was like, ‘Charlie, let’s go on a binge,’ and he’s like, ‘that’s my man, that’s my man.’" -
Works Cited, pt. 1
Cooper, Duncan. "Yung Lean's Second Chance." www.thefader.com, 16 June 2016, www.thefader.com/2016/06/16/yung-lean-warlord-interview. Accessed 14 Sept. 2017. Hastad, Jonatatan Leandoer. "Me and Charlie." Instagram, Facebook, 20 Mar. 2016, www.instagram.com/p/BDMU95tFgR-/?taken-by=yunglean2001&hl=en. Accessed 15 Sept. 2017. Kristoffer Leandoer's Family. www.vccinews.com, www.vccinews.com/news_detail.asp?news_id=22533. Accessed 18 Sept. 2017. -
Works Cited, pt. 2
"Nardwuar vs. Yung Lean." Youtube, uploaded by Nardwuar Serviette, Google, 23 July 2014, www.youtube.com/watch?v=723ywF5faV4. Accessed 15 Sept. 2017. "1987/06/25 - 2015/04/08." Youtube, uploaded by Sad Boys Entertainment, Google, 9 Apr. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlE5p72RBxI. Accessed 20 Sept. 2017.
