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TIKTOK BOOM: Yung Lean trolled for pic with Kanye West Drake and Travis Scott in LA

Yung Lean, who shot to fame with his viral 2013 track ‘Ginseng Strip 2002’, secured one of the top trending spots on Twitter on Tuesday, February 8

Unlike ‘Donda’, looks like Kanye West might release its sequel ‘Donda 2’ on time as he reportedly threw a listening party for the same in Malibu, Los Angeles on Monday, February 7. Some of the top global stars, who are close to Kanye, pulled in at the event sending Twitter into a meltdown. However, a new face in the form of rapper Yung Lean too made waves at the listening party.
 
The 25-year-old Internet sensation, who shot to fame with his viral 2013 track ‘Ginseng Strip 2002’, secured one of the top trending spots on Twitter after Kanye shared a pic of his with Lean whilst also chilling with Travis Scott, Baby Keem, and foe-turned-friend Drake. Kanye West had shared a screenshot from the Instagram page of Our Generation Music that quickly went viral on social media platforms. Yung Lean, however, was trolled as he got dubbed as “TikTok Rapper” who got to hang out with the greats.
 
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Yung Lean trolled after pic of Kanye West, Drake and Travis Scott goes viral

Yung Lean, whose real name is Jonatan Aron Leandoer Hastad, is a Swedish rapper, singer and songwriter. He is widely considered as one of the biggest influences in the early cloud rap era. Speaking of ‘Donda 2’ listening party, Yung Lean was one of the guests that also saw artists like Offset, Kendall Jenner, and French Montana among a few others in attendance. Yung Lean had shared the viral pic on his Instagram too captioning the post as, “New Beatles.”
 
Many on social media were shocked to see the young artist chilling out with some of the top global artists. Since he enjoys a massive fan following on TikTok, many on Internet were not fine with him attending the listening party. Speaking of the same, Kanye also raised eyebrows after he brought a Kim Kardashian look-alike to the event. The woman has been identified as Chaney Jones. Interestingly, Kanye’s new lover Julia Fox was not spotted anywhere at the venue. New reports are coming in that Kanye and Julia might be in an open relationship.

‘These TikTok rappers are getting out of hand’

Reacting to the viral picture, one user stated, “Someone put me on some Yung Lean songs rn. I never heard of him I’m tryna see what’s up.” Another posted, “Never heard a Yung Lean track.” The next one shared, “Bro this guy Yung Lean is definitely either an industry plant or a one hit wonder. These tiktok rappers are getting out of hand.” One user tweeted, “Imagine if Kanye found out who Yung Lean was because of his daughters TikTok.”
 
Meanwhile, one added, “Someone saw Yung Lean blowing up on TikTok and brought him along.” One added, “Hate that people are calling Yung Lean the "tiktok" guy like wtf”, as another chimed in, “My entire personality has been based on yung lean since 2013 and tiktok just found out abt my mans?? i dont believe it.” And, one user concluded, “I did not go through a sadboy phase in 2015 for girls on tiktok to say yung lean is mid.”