But then there’s Drain Gang, whose eldritch vision of rap represents peak e-boy cool, and whose de facto leader, Bladee, is exalted by gothic teenagers, esoteric shitposters, and pop It Girls alike.

For most of Bladee's career, the Swedish rapper released almost all of his full-length material with the Stockholm-based label YEAR0001. That came to an end in 2024 with the release of his solo ...

In the first week of February, Bladee un-retired from X.com. We’d talked a bit about the site when I visited him in Stockholm in early January; he said he used to like it for its low-stakes ...