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Sad Boys is a music collective from Stockholm, Sweden; formed by Yung Lean, Gud, and Sherman. The group is associated with fellow Stockholm artists Bladee, Ecco2k, Thaiboy Digital, and Whitearmor making up the members of art and music collective under the name of Drain Gang, formerly Shield Gang, formerly Gravity Boys.
This is a pretty good introduction into the story of these guys.
> Rapper Yung Lean was on top of the world, but behind the scenes he struggled with fame, drug addiction, and mental health issues. This is his coming-of-age story told with unparalleled access on his road to recovery.
Sad Boys have been around over a decade now and there's many iterations of Lean.
Teenage Lean was a memer. He probably had a Tumblr. It was the early 2010s obviously.
https://mishkanyc.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-death-2002
The Music Video for Hurt is pretty great but YouTube won't let me embed it so.
His name stands on its own today but back in those days Bladee was just a Lean tag-along.
This was never more apparent than in the Narduar vs Yung Lean interview.
Unknown Death 2002 was pretty cool but what put these guys on the map was Kyoto.
https://soundcloud.com/yung-lean-doer/kyoto-prod-yung-gud
Can't leave out Ginseng Strip 2002 either.
a classic Yung Lean live performance with Whitearmor and Bladee.
Back when I was mainly a Yung Lean fan, the only thing that made me notice Bladee at all was this video.
The cinematography has some vaguely black metal music video vibes: a lofi recording of Scandinavian guy in the woods, except instead of corpse paint and lurking around like a goblin he's a rapper with sun glasses and an iced out chain around his neck.
Fake blood drips down his wrists throughout the video as he sings in autotune about bleeding in the club. It doesn't make sense; it's almost laughable. But something about it just goes hard. I never imagined this guy's name would carry as much weight as Lean's.
This is really the album that sold me on Bladee and had me paying more attention to him than before. It's a somewhat normie way to get into draining but its also one of the best.
This album can be very cringe and corny, but in spite of that, it's good.
It actually took me a while to listen to Red Light. It came out very close to the time Icedancer did and I just overlooked it for a while.
In fact if you search Google for "Bladee Red Light" as of today, the Anthony Fantano review comes up before the actual album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJwmTnjDkrI
It's well know as one of the lowest reviews Fantano ever gave and it's funny because over time he realizes like most of us that Bladee is something you get initiated into slowly.
This one is so under rated though.
But if you're just getting into Bladee, I think it's worth going backwards before you go forwards. The best album to fuck with is Eversince, which one of Bladee's best albums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miMP5SQ_JQA
This is the era of Bladee where you don't who this motherfucker is. He just popping out the shadows, never showing his face. It's dark Bladee era. Very important era.
lesser known bladee tracks which should get way more recognition
(top 10 bladee oat my opinion)
this ones a favorite of mine
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>>0x000010
> lol im an idiot........
> Ignore my fuck ups (-_-)" These are some of my favorites as well
>>0x00000f
> this ones a favorite of mine
nah you're good. he said he would fix the links and write a guide on how to embed.
these are some good songs fa sho
You guys are legends for posting songs on the thread.
It took me a while to get the on.soundcloud.com links to work, but it should work now.
I'm gonna leave that iframe post there so that everyone can see that doesn't work.
I wrote a guide on what you can do in a post and made a /meta/ board so you can practice posting in it https://goeshard.org/meta/
definitely check out the gtbsg comp for some of his best early work from early bladee i love oxygen carwash i will make you bleed bleach dragonfly ghost hands but i love all his shit also exeter is possibly my favorite album oat
off red light i looove steve jobs the 3/4 shit tickles my brain
haters broke
someone made fan art of ice spice and bladee
