Yung Bleu at The Studio at The Factory

Alabamian Yung Bleu has been refining his dark, ominous style and increasingly intricate flows since the early 2010s. The rapper and singer — alternately known as BLEU and less formally as Bleu Vandross, named after R&B legend Luther Vandross — has experienced increasing levels of commercial success with heartfelt slow jams such as “Miss It” (2017), “Ice on My Baby” (2018), and “You’re Mines Still” (2020) among his platinum-certified singles. The Drake-assisted remix of “Your Mines Still” earned Bleu his first placement on the Billboard Hot 100 and took the deluxe edition of his EP Love Scars: The 5 Stages of Emotion (2020) into the Billboard 200. Moon Boy (2021), Bleu’s first album, entered the album chart at number 12, and has been followed with Tantra (2022) and the Love Scars full-length sequel Love Scars II (2023), both of which have also charted.

– allmusic.com