Gud

Gud, born Carl-Mikael Göran Berlander in Stockholm on 29 August 1995, is a Swedish DJ, producer and rapper whose work helped define the early sound of Sad Boys alongside Yung Lean and Yung Sherman. Formerly known as Yung Gud, he began making music at 12, first working in psychedelic trance. That background, along with ambient music and later hip-hop listening, fed into the spacious, melodic production he brought to the group.

Berlander met Yung Lean through mutual friends, and the pair made “Oreomilkshake” in October 2012. As Sad Boys developed, Gud's beats became central to Lean's recordings, combining trap rhythms with hazy synth textures and instrumental passages. He initially adopted the name Gud, later using Yung Gud before returning to Gud.

Away from Sad Boys, he released the EP Beautiful, Wonderful in November 2014, a project built around a more self-contained electronic sound. In 2016, he issued “Body Horror,” his first original track after the shift back from Yung Gud to Gud. His production work has also extended beyond the group: he contributed additional production to Halsey’s “Strange Love,” from the deluxe edition of Badlands, and produced “World On My Shoulders 3.0” for Deniro Farrar. He collaborated with S-Type on “Fire” and has remixed work by Jacques Greene, Kacy Hill and Tinashe; those remixes received positive notices from outlets including Pigeons & Planes and The Fader.

Gud's later releases include Foreign Exchange, a collaborative album with American rapper Rx Papi. He also works under the alias Rooster, releasing the EP Rooster Debut and the album Rooster Slipped. Another collaboration, Frutta e Verdura, was made with fellow Swedish producer Whitearmor. Across Sad Boys material, solo recordings and alias projects, his music moves between cloud rap, trap, wave, ambient electronics and instrumental hip-hop.