{"id":781455,"date":"2025-12-01T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=781455"},"modified":"2025-12-01T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:08:00","slug":"10-of-yung-leans-best-collabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=781455","title":{"rendered":"10 of Yung Lean\u2019s best collabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-19-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">Yung Lean \u2013 The Winter <span class=\"nowrap\">Issue 2025<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/36396\/0\/yung-lean-the-winter-issue-2025\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yung Lean \u2013 The Winter Issue 2025\" class=\"img\" height=\"1336\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1431811-2.jpg\" width=\"2004\" title=\"1431811-2\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/36396\/1\/yung-lean-the-winter-issue-2025\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yung Lean \u2013 The Winter Issue 2025\" class=\"img\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1431807-2.jpg\" width=\"2048\" title=\"1431807-2\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/36396\/2\/yung-lean-the-winter-issue-2025\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yung Lean \u2013 The Winter Issue 2025\" class=\"img\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1431802-2.jpg\" width=\"2048\" title=\"1431802-2\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/36396\/3\/yung-lean-the-winter-issue-2025\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yung Lean \u2013 The Winter Issue 2025\" class=\"img\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1431810-2.jpg\" width=\"2048\" title=\"1431810-2\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/36396\/4\/yung-lean-the-winter-issue-2025\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yung Lean \u2013 The Winter Issue 2025\" class=\"img\" height=\"1364\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1431798-2.jpg\" width=\"2046\" title=\"1431798-2\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/36396\/5\/yung-lean-the-winter-issue-2025\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yung Lean \u2013 The Winter Issue 2025\" class=\"img\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1431799-2.jpg\" width=\"1425\" title=\"1431799-2\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 19 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>In many ways, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/yung-lean\">Yung Lean<\/a> is music\u2019s ultimate outsider. Born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, he gleaned hip-hop culture from a distance, studying the likes of Nas, 50 Cent and local act The Latin Kings before launching his own ethereal, English-as-a-second-language rap career on SoundCloud in the early 2010s. He\u2019s since gone on to inspire countless misfits from the peripheries to pursue music. Still, perhaps Yung Lean\u2019s most impressive achievement is how his unorthodox artistry has infiltrated the mainstream, working with some of the 21st century\u2019s biggest names.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Interviewing him for our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/film-tv\/article\/69161\/1\/yung-lean-and-charli-xcx-in-conversation-dazed-winter-2025-issue?pvw=MjgvMTEvMjAyNSAxMToxNjozMiArMDA6MDA=\"><span>Winter 2025 cover story<\/span><\/a><span>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/charli-xcx\">Charli xcx<\/a> observed an \u201ceffervescent\u201d quality in Yung Lean that draws people to him, later writing in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/itscharlibb.substack.com\/p\/the-realities-of-being-a-pop-star\"><span>her Substack<\/span><\/a><span> that he was \u201cone of the wisest people I know\u201d. This is written all over Yung Lean\u2019s raw yet emotionally profound releases, and also partly explains why he has been sought out to collaborate with some of music\u2019s biggest names over the last ten years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Below, in honour of Lean appearing on our Winter 2025 issue cover, we look back at ten of his most iconic collaborations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span>\u201cINFERNO\u201d \u2013 YUNG LEAN, BLADEE\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"EOPNV4oD9ho\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Spoilers: This is one of our favourite tracks of 2025. Lean and Bladee are an iconic pairing with dozens of collaborations under their belts, but what makes this one stand out in particular is their joint foray into the emerging rage-rap sound currently taking the US and UK by storm \u2013 a scene which they partly inspired with their cloud rap releases over ten years earlier. The track also contains a nod to the winding road their career has taken since then, with Lean\u2019s opening verse including a vocal sample taken from the 2020 documentary <\/span><em><span>Yung Lean: In My Head<\/span><\/em><span>, in which label exec and father of Lean\u2019s late close friend Steven Machat declares: \u201cThese are not good boys\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span>\u201cPARASAIL\u201d \u2013 TRAVIS SCOTT FEAT. YUNG LEAN AND DAVE CHAPPELLE\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"aEiD3UZDmiY\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Lean feat. Dave Chappelle?!? Sonically, \u201cParasail\u201d perfectly fits into Lean\u2019s universe, with tranqued-out, languishing chord progression colliding with Travis\u2019 simultaneously high-energy yet sombre rap verses. The duo actually have quite an extensive history together, with Travis Scott being the only feature on Lean\u2019s debut 2014 album <\/span><em><span>Unknown Memory<\/span><\/em><span>, but this track takes the cake simply for the wild lineup. Hearing Chappelle read the lines \u201c<em>I forgive myself, I choose to feel good, I choose to feel free<\/em>\u201d on \u201cParasail\u201d \u2013 lines which literally could feel at home on a Bladee x Lean collaboration \u2013 is just the cherry on top.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span>\u201c360\u201d \u2013 CHARLI XCX FEAT. ROBYN AND YUNG LEAN\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"bvy6aox2Sgw\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Speaking of Lean and Charli, we had to include their only public collaboration on here (previously listed as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/article\/64841\/1\/ranking-the-charli-xcx-brat-remixes\"><span>one of our favourite <\/span><em><span>Brat <\/span><\/em><span>remixes)<\/span><\/a><span>. Released before even the original <\/span><em><span>Brat <\/span><\/em><span>album, the \u201c360\u201d remix arrived out of nowhere yet made total sense. As Robyn says on the track herself, Charli, Lean and Robyn were all child stars in their own right, and there\u2019s clearly a chemistry between the trio as they trade dynamic lines about living that high-flying celebrity lifestyle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span>\u201cCEREMONY\u201d \u2013 SKRILLEX FEAT. YUNG LEAN AND BLADEE\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"0stc0duKiHs\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Continuing Lean\u2019s legendary voyage into the musical mainstream is this unexpected garage banger with none other than Skrillex. While Bladee and Lean might thrive in rap\u2019s raw and experimental nether regions, it\u2019s quite wonderful seeing what happens when they sit down with a pop songwriter like Skrillex. Lean\u2019s \u201c<em>d-d-d-d-dancing<\/em>\u201d refrain, for example, is upmarket-coffee-shop-playlist levels of catchy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span>\u201cGODSPEED\u201d \u2013 FRANK OCEAN<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"P18g4rKns6Q \"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>In four short years, Yung Lean went from a distant outsider to featuring on perhaps the biggest album of the 21st century: Frank Ocean\u2019s <\/span><em><span>Blonde <\/span><\/em><span>(and that\u2019s all before he even turned 21). While Lean is not credited in the track\u2019s title (only in the liner notes), and his contribution is limited to backing vocals throughout the track, this appearance nonetheless shows just how bright Lean\u2019s star shone. Elsewhere, despite no credits confirming it, rumours persist that Lean also provided vocals on <\/span><em><span>Blonde<\/span><\/em><span>\u2019s \u201cSelf Control\u201d \u2013 but we\u2019ll leave that up to the listeners to speculate on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span>\u201cBUILDINGS\u201d \u2013 YUNG LEAN, THAIBOY DIGITAL, BLADEE <\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"h741KCQsWv4 \"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>This is a deep cut from Lean\u2019s early SoundCloud era, but it still stands the test of time. Despite preceding the formation of Drain Gang itself \u2013 here, the group are still known as GTB (or \u2018Gravity Boys\u2019) \u2013 \u201cBuildings\u201d perfectly captures their subsequent appeal. There\u2019s Tokyo Hands, Whitearmor and Yung Sherman\u2019s frostbitten production that evolves with each new verse, there\u2019s Lean and Thaiboy\u2019s layered yet drowned out vocals, and, of course, there\u2019s Bladee shouting out the union between his Gravity Boys and Lean\u2019s Sad Boys clique on the anthemic chorus.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span>\u201cNO MERCY\u201d \u2013 YUNG BANS FEAT. YUNG LEAN<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"ISUdm91KIlQ\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>This Lean verse is massively slept on \u2013 he just sounds so good over Yung Bans\u2019 distinctly melancholic trap sound. Given that Lean shouts out \u201cFree Bans like he on my team,\u201d the track was presumably recorded while Bans was serving time for a first-degree burglary charge between 2015 and 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span>\u201cBLISS\u201d \u2013 YUNG LEAN FEAT. FKA TWIGS<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"2N1liztehz8\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>The lead single from Lean\u2019s 2022 album <\/span><em><span>Stardust <\/span><\/em><span>sees superstar FKA twigs step into Lean\u2019s sonic world, contributing her signature ethereal vocals over a distorted post-punk beat. Coming complete with an Aidan Zamiri-directed music video, the only question left is: which A-list musicians has Lean <\/span><em><span>not <\/span><\/em><span>worked with?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span>\u201cYAYO\u201d \u2013 YUNG LEAN FEAT. PLAYBOI CARTI\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"6BUx8N6d0Ac\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>In a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DJRtrt3xKZW\/\"><span>previous interview<\/span><\/a><span>, Lean shared that Carti flew him and producer Whitearmor to Atlanta for a studio session in 2017, and that they\u2019d made a load of music together, but this leak seems like the only one that reached the light of day. Still, featuring Carti\u2019s signature pitched-up vocals and even spitting a Mario Kart bar \u2013 something which seems to be a recurring theme in Lean\u2019s music more widely \u2013 it\u2019s one for the ages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span>\u201cOVERTIME\u201d \u2013 BABYFACE RAY FEAT. YUNG LEAN<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"JGXhrAh-9rk\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>From cloud rap to post-punk to Frank Ocean-style R&amp;B and now a Detroit rap linkup with hometown legend Babyface Ray, nothing is off the cards for Lean at this point. Despite Lean and Ray hailing from very different backgrounds, the pair find unexpected common ground on the track, with Lean\u2019s devil-may-care attitude on the opening verse setting the stage for Ray\u2019s bars about living the \u201cthug life\u201d and ransacking department stores around Detroit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Source URL: https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/article\/69178\/1\/10-of-yung-lean-best-collabs-fka-twigs-playboi-carti-frank-ocean-charli-xcx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yung Lean \u2013 The Winter Issue 2025 Gallery \/ 19 images In many ways, Yung Lean is music\u2019s ultimate outsider. Born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, he gleaned hip-hop culture from a distance, studying the likes of Nas, 50 Cent and local act The Latin Kings before launching his own ethereal, English-as-a-second-language rap career on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":781456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-781455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-dazeddigital-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/781456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}