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.

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 ...