ARUN.

“Just being explicitly myself in my music feels like a form of activism sometimes,” rising singer, songwriter and producer ARUN tells us. For someone who lives at the intersection of his South Asian and queer identity, his voice is one that is severly underrepresented in music.

But ARUN is here to change that, and is doing so with some seriously slick anthems. Latest cut Y.D.E.K. (short for You Don’t Even Know) is an infectious R&B bop packed full of cocksure energy. “Oh he’s cute but he won’t do ya like I,” ARUN sings