How Bladee Transformed Underground Collectives 👀👇 One of the most notable groups in online music circles consists of Sweden’s very own, Bladee, Ecco2k, Thaiboy Digital & Whitearmor. As pioneers of the cloud rap genre, each member has their own stylization of the sound and their influence is not hard to come by, but artists like Xaviersobased, Joeyy & even 2hollis wouldn’t exist without the impact of Bladee, specifically. 2hollis spoke on this in 2022 with Pigeons & Planes saying, “Everyone knows I owe a lot to Drain Gang, big reason I’m even doing this. Bladee was the first dude who I was like, you can be a rapper as a white boy and not be corny.” Bladee met the other Drain Gang members throughout different classes & mutual friends in the 2000s, and tried out many varying renditions of DG. As music kept releasing, fashion and art direction also proved to be of substance, as rappers like Playboi Carti & Ken Carson wouldn’t be rocking the same fits without the style of the Stockholm...