Mugun announces new EP ‘Dissident Behaviour’

Credit: Jamie Walters

Mugun – the Coventry-born rapper disrupting the UK rap scene from the margins – announces his new EP Dissident Behaviour out 29th October. Sounds from the hardcore continuum and the DNA of rave influenced by an adolescence spent in Jamaica are dragged kicking and screaming into the future. Produced almost entirely by himself, the scope of Mugun’s vision is on a cinematic scale: the neo-noir of Sin City in an unfamiliar landscape, met with the feeling of childhood enchantment we feel as the star crests over the Disney castle. This is an artist fluent in UK hip-hop with a pop star’s cultural ambition.

Alongside the announcement, he releases new track ‘Journey’. With survival game urgency and a floor-filling beat, it’s a love story narrated on the run. Mugun imagined the island paradise of Danny Boyle’s 2000 classic The Beach as he was writing it. Speaking on the single, he shares: “Out of all the tracks I’ve worked on, this is definitely the Journey they talk about before the destination”.

It follows on from forerunning ‘Searching For Truth’, a statement of intent that Dissident Behaviour marks Mugun shifting into a new gear, aware and fully in command of his gifts. It’s his most personal project to date, navigating his experience of outsiderdom, grief at the loss of his sister and aspiring for more than the circumstances you were born into.

Mugun shares his vision for Dissident Behaviour: “I just wanted to make something that I thought would appeal to my younger self. Something mixed with all the beauty behind the chaos I was around, something I knew would’ve hit me while I’m with my friends at some house party, or alone on a rooftop watching the ambience. I made this for the kids of the night”.

A skater and anime enthusiast with a personal style which borders on cyberpunk, Mugun has always been an outsider in his hometown. His 2023 EP Walking Street announced an artist whose floor-filling instincts, Jamaican patois and collision of unlikely worlds in his lyrics is altogether peerless.

Dissident Behaviour marks a new era for Mugun who is working, more than ever, at the peak of his powers.