Yung Lean - Unknown Death 2002 - LP Vinyl

Imagine a swirling cloud of sadness, internet ephemera, and Arizona Iced Tea dependency formed into a rap album and you're pretty close to Yung Lean's Unknown Death 2002. It's an album made by a Swedish teenager--geeked up on wild sugary, import iced tea--with beats crafted from the sound of your horse dying in Ocarina of Time. If you find it weird that a member of the EU would be rapping about sadness and Pokémon while rocking a bucket hat collection that would have 2002 Dame Dash envious; consider for a second that dude is rapping from a place where import iced tea, is a real thing. Everything about this album will be weird, because normalcy is foreign. True to his name, Lean has created an album that's soaked in codeine at its core. Unknown Death is a hazy and dragged out exploration of emotion from a dude that heavily identifies with Pikachu. I've never done lean with a 15 year old and asked him about his struggle, but I have to imagine, it'd sound a lot like this.

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A1 Welcome 2 Unknown Death 1:52
A2 Nitevision 3:44
A3 Oceans 2001 3:26
A4 Gatorade 3:19
A5 Hurt 4:07
A6 Lightsaber // Saviour 4:34
B1 Princess Daisy 3:35
B2 Lemonade (Feat. Baba Stiltz) (03:16) 3:16
B3 Emails 3:00
B4 Deathstar // Getting Benjamins 2:48
B5 Heal You // Bladerunner 3:04
B6 Solarflare 3:20