Yung Gud

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Yung Gud performing with Yung Lean and the Sad Boys in 2014
Background information
Birth name	Carl-Mikael Göran Berlander
Also known as	Gud
Born	(1995-08-29) August 29, 1995 (age 21) , Sweden
Genres	Electronic trance Hip hop Trap
Years active	2008–present
Labels	Sky Team Year0001
Associated acts	Yung Lean

Carl-Mikael Göran "Micke" Berlander (born August 29, 1995) known by his stage names as Yung Gud or Gud, is a Swedish DJ and producer well known for being one of the members for rapper Yung Lean's -based group Sad Boys. Being influenced by "left-field" music, he began producing at the age of twelve, first making psychedelic trance music, but would not get into hip hop until much later. He did not do well in school, and pursued a career in music before he graduated, which garnered mixed feelings from his father. His production alongside Sad Boys for Yung Lean's music has been well received.

Outside of his Sad Boys career, he released his debut extended play Beautiful, Wonderful in November 2014, and has done production work for acts including Halsey and Deniro Farrar, and remixes of songs by acts including Jacques Greene, Kacy Hill, Meek Mill and Tinashe. These have also garnered a positive critical response from publications including Pigeons & Planes and The Fader. He has stated in a 2014 interview to be very focused on his work with the Sad Boys and his solo material.

Berlander is part of a mixed race family, since his Nigerian grandfather met his grandmother, who was a Swede, in London. He said that his identity of his mixed race made feel like he was "on this little island". Following his parents' divorce when he was ten, his dad and his older sister moved to a Stockholm suburb different to where he was living at the time. Berlander, as well as the other members of the Sad Boys group, have described living in as "boring" and "miserable". While he has resided in the city for most of his life, Berlander had once lived in a small urban area called Gnesta, which he opined to be a Swedish equivalent to Kentucky: "Stupid people and alcohol problems, I don't know. It sucks of over there. It's so boring." He said that his mother "liked to spoil me." He did not do well in school, dropping out to pursue a career in music, and his father has always been mixed on this decision; he had always encouraged him to "just go to school and be a good person", saying that “You can't make music without a guitar.” However, Berlander said in a 2014 interview that his dad had been getting a little more supportive and into what he had been doing so far. He also claimed in that same interview that he is sober, although he said that he was wanting to try promethazine "because it's medicine. But the weeds and the speeds – no, not that."