Top 25 Yung Lean Quotes

I moved out of my parents’ house to a place that’s more like the projects, because I’m living by myself.

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

It’s kind of beautiful to sit inside a bus and see a city from the windows.

I’m not a very macho guy.

Lean just follows his heart wherever it wants to go.

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

I worked flipping cheeseburgers and Big Mac’s at McDonald’s, purchased a microphone, and cleared all the stuff out of my basement and started making music.

I have to pay a huge price to express myself. You get people asking to take photos all the time; you can’t ride the subway… I still ride the subway, but there’s always people sneaking photos or coming up to you.

I don’t know what I wear. I don’t think much about fashion.

Even when I was a kid, I thought of myself as a celebrity.

There was a recording studio in my school, and I knew this kid who had a key, so I’d write lyrics in school while I was in class, and then, in a 10-minute break, I recorded the song ‘Hurt’ in one go at the school studio.

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

I met Fredo Santana three days before he passed. We were in the studio in Los Angeles, actually, listening to ‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin,’ and he’s a great human being.

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

I’m not really into ‘My Little Pony.’ I’m not a ‘Brony,’ just to clear that up.

I made my first mixtape when I was 11.

Yung Lean is like water: he’s always changing due to the temperature, how he’s feeling.

My parents were definitely encouraging with creativity.

If it was the ’70s, I’d be a punk artist. I was just born into hip-hop.

I don’t like political rappers.

I get energy from meeting people.

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

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.

Frank Ocean called me when I was in Stockholm when I was, like, 17.

I do love my Gucci slides. I wear them inside. I’m like an old Russian man who wears slides in his house.