Bladee

Bladee is the recording name of Benjamin Reichwald, a Swedish singer and rapper born in 1994 and raised in Stockholm's Skanstull area. He and childhood friend Ecco2k performed as the grindcore duo Krossad as teenagers before co-founding the Drain Gang collective in 2013 with Thaiboy Digital and Whitearmor, and gained wider attention after featuring on Yung Lean's Unknown Death 2002. Across mixtapes and albums including Gluee, Eversince, Red Light, EXETER, 333 and The Fool, he pioneered a blurred, Auto-Tuned voice fusing emo, trance and internet-rap textures. His 2022 collaboration Crest with Ecco2k extended this dissolving, angelic aesthetic into ambient pop territory.