Bugzy Malone returns with new single 'Lean'

Manchester’s powerhouse rapper Bugzy Malone is back with new single, ‘Lean’.

With the beat tapping classic, early ‘00s East Coast hip-hop sounds for inspiration, Bugzy delivers punchy, say-it-with-your-chest verses with trademark swagger, cutting in-and-out of the track’s hook in suave, nonchalant style.

‘Lean’ – released on the heels of recent single ‘Mrs Lonely’ – also drops alongside a lavish official video shot on location in Dubai, co-directed by Emmanuel Boadie and Bugzy himself. A toast to the high life, it captures Bugzy in leave-your-worries-at-the-door party mode, shot against a backdrop of supercars, clubs and infinity pools, as well as some of Dubai’s iconic landmarks and fabled nighttime views.

Marking a return to his brand of hard-hitting, hook-friendly rap, ‘Lean’ lands as the latest in a series of new Bugzy Malone singles, with more on the horizon as he looks to 2024.

‘Lean’ follows the UK Top 10 success of ‘Out Of Nowhere’ with Teedee – Bugzy’s highest charting single to date – and more broadly, 5x UK Top 10 albums, including 2021’s ‘The Resurrection’, which peaked at #7 on the UK Albums Chart only a year after Bugzy was seriously injured in a quadbike accident.

Elsewhere, Bugzy Malone has also collaborated with everyone from Dizzee Rascal to Aitch to Chase & Status, as well as former rival, Chip, and even branched out into acting; he featured in both Guy Ritchie’s 2019 blockbuster, ‘The Gentleman’ and 2023 spy comedy, ‘Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre’, alongside Hugh Grant, Jason Statham and Aubrey Plaza.