Gud

Carl-Mikael Göran "Micke" Berlander (born 29 August 1995), known professionally as Gud (formerly known as Yung Gud), is a Swedish DJ, music producer and rapper best known as a member of a Stockholm-based group Sad Boys along with Yung Lean and Yung Sherman. He began producing at the age of twelve, making psychedelic trance music, which heavily influenced his sonic palette. His production as a part of Sad Boys has been well received. He said that his mother "liked to spoil me." and according to a journalist, his "lush" and "melodic" beats were a major part of the listeners' appeal towards Lean. As a result, he decided to return to Sweden to spend time with his family. As Yung Gud described, "I've always wanted to make a product of some sort. So with this EP, I'm finally selling a specific sound and look to the people that have been supporting my music for the past year and a half." The EP was promoted with a ten-day European tour lasting from 12–22 November.

On 22 June 2016, Vice Media's electronic music channel Thump premiered "Body Horror," Yung Gud's first original track in two years. It, according to Thump, is an "obfuscated, hazy R&B through a grab bag of blemishing distortion techniques, decorating it with light discordance and snippets of ravey synth patches for texture. Fittingly, it shares its name with a style of fiction known for its gut-churning corporeal thrills." Berlander also changed his stage name from Yung Gud to simply Gud, "a symbol of his development and growth as an artist" according to Hypetrak.

Collaborations Yung Gud has done production work for acts including Halsey. Yung Gud collaborated with S-Type of the LuckyMe record label for the song "Fire", which was released on The Fader on 9 February 2015 as a single off S-Type's EP SV8. Production credits have included rapper Deniro Farrar's single "World On My Shoulders 3.0", which premiered on 27 April 2015, "Blue Prada" by Prada Mane and additional production on "Strange Love", a track by singer Halsey off the deluxe edition of her debut album Badlands.

Remixes Gud has done remix work for songs by artists including Tinashe. In 2014, Yung Gud released two remixes of "No Excuse", a track by Canadian producer Jacques Greene. On 30 May 2014, The Fader premiered the recut that was a part of a remix extended play for Greene's three-track record Phantom Vibrate. Joe Price, writing for Complex magazine's website Pigeons & Planes, said that with this remix, Yung Gud had "proven once again that he has legs beyond what many coin as "meme rap."" Later on, Yung Gud did a much more harsh-sounding "VIP" remix of the track, which starts off alike to Yung Gud's first remix, and then it dives "into a deep chasm of rumbling bass complete with a hammering rhythm that rarely lets up", Price wrote. It was issued on 20 December, Yung Gud's "spacey and dreamy" re-edit for "2 On" by Tinashe, which came out on 6 September 2014, was reviewed by a Complex magazine critic who highlighted its "interesting drum work" and Tinashe's vocal performance fitting with the beat.

In 2015, Yung Gud released two remixes. On 28 June, Yung Gud did a remix of rapper Meek Mill's track "Monster". Yung Gud remixed Kacy Hill's "Foreign Fields", which the re-edit was released on 30 September as a promotional single of her debut EP Bloo. A Pigeons & Planes journalist wrote that Yung Gud's reworking turns the original song "into a grand experience", opining that it takes it into "new heights with heavier basslines and haunting production." A Stuff.co.nz critic compared his Foreign Fields remix to Katy Perry's track "Dark Horse" due to "some nature sounds and a marching band drum beat".

Artistry and influences Berlander has described his influences of music as generally "left-field". However, he said in a 2014 interview that he didn't start listening to hip hop until a couple of years before. Rooster Slipped (as Rooster) (2025)

EPs Beautiful, Wonderful (2014) Frutta e Verdura (with Whitearmor) (2020) Rooster Debut (as Rooster) (2022) Singles Body Horror (2016) Vive La France / AAA (as Aamu Kuu) (2021) Ssstupid / The End of the World (as Rooster) (2023)

Production credits Yung Lean - Warlord (2016)

01. "Immortal" 02. "Highway Patrol" (co-produced with Whitearmor, Yung Sherman, Mike Dean) 04. "Afghanistan" (co-produced with Whitearmor) 05. "Hoover" 07. "Stay Down" (co-produced with Yung Sherman) 09. "More Stacks" (co-produced with Yung Sherman) 10. "Af1s" (co-produced with Yung Sherman) 11. "Hocus Pocus" (co-produced with Yung Sherman) 13. "Miami Ultras" (co-produced with Yung Sherman) 16. "How U Like Me Now?"

Yung Lean - Stranger (2017)

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02. "Red Bottom Sky" 03. "Skimask" 04. "Silver Arrows" (co-produced with Whitearmor) 05. "Metallic Intuition" 06. "Push / Lost Weekend" 08. "Drop It / Scooter" (co-produced with Whitearmor) 09. "Hunting My Own Skin" (co-produced with Whitearmor) 11. "Snakeskin / Bullets" 13. "Agony" 14. "Yellowman" (co-produced with Yung Sherman)

Huncho Jack - Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho (2017) 08. "Dubai Shit" (co-produced with Vinylz, OZ and Yung Lean)

Thaiboy Digital - Legendary Member (2019) 02. "Nervous" 03. "Can't Tell" (co-produced with Woesum) 04. "Kiss Me Through the Scope" 05. "IDGAF" (co-produced with Whitearmor) 07. "Kit Kat" 08. "Lip Service" 09. "Beijing" (co-produced with Whitearmor) 10. "Spinnin" (co-produced with Whitearmor) 11. "Baby (Legendary Member)" (produced with Woesum and Whitearmor)

Ecco2k - E (2019)

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02. "Peroxide" 03. "Fragile" 04. "Bliss Fields" 06. "Cc" (co-produced with Whitearmor) 10. "Security!" (co-produced with Mechatok) 11. "Time" 12. "Blue Eyes"

Bladee - Exeter (2020) Entirely produced by Berlander.

RealYungPhil - Victory Music (2023) 01. "I'm Not Them" 02. "I Had Enough" 05. "Opening Doors" 06. "Talk of the Town" 09. "Winners Circle" 10. "Victory Music"

Subaru & HC - CARGLASS (2026) "CARGLASS"