Bishu Combines His Alt-Rap Vocals With Kaleidoscopic, Forward-Thinking House Groove via Genre-Bending Single “WHAT YOU RUNNING FROM” on NIGHTMODE
Bishu returns to NIGHTMODE with “WHAT YOU RUNNING FROM,” a genre-fusing single that captures the Halifax-born producer at his most vulnerable and most forward-thinking. Known for a catalog that ricochets between trap, hyperpop, hip-hop, alt-dance, and future bass, Bishu channels that eclectic DNA into a left-of-center house track built around his own emotionally frayed vocal. The topline, somewhere between alternative hip-hop confession and emo-pop urgency, sits at the center of a production that feels equal parts uneasy and intoxicating.
Built on Bishu’s kaleidoscopic production style, “WHAT YOU RUNNING FROM” threads modulating synth leads, watery color-bass textures, and shuffling rhythmic patterns into a house-leaning chassis. His own topline, equal parts alt-hip-hop cadence and emo-pop vulnerability, acts as the track’s axis, tracing the emotional fallout of a partner who keeps the walls up and their feet pointed toward the exit. Grainy, granular detuned melodies flicker around the vocal, intensifying the sense of unease, while the arrangement moves with a push-pull tension that mirrors the track’s central conflict.
“WHAT YOU RUNNING FROM” first surfaced during one of Bishu’s ‘BISHBATTLE’ sessions, the weekly beat-battle stream that’s helped place him among Twitch Music’s top 0.1 percent of creators. What began as an impulsive sketch quickly resurfaced as something worth shaping, eventually evolving into the fully formed single now set to anchor a major rollout on his channel. To mark the release, Bishu will debut an official music video and host a live release-day celebration on Twitch, leaning into the community-driven workflow that has become central to his identity as both a producer and on-stream creator.
The release marks Bishu’s third appearance on NIGHTMODE and his second single with the label since 2020, following 2022’s “MISS U,” which garnered support from outlets including Acid Stag, Find Your Sounds, The Festival Voice, and Magnetic Mag. It also lands during a new chapter for the Nova Scotia native, who first broke onto the scene through standout releases on Mad Decent, Lowly Palace, and Monstercat before shifting toward a more sustainable creator-artist model. Now one of Twitch Music’s fastest-rising personalities with a rapidly expanding YouTube presence, Bishu has carved out a hybrid role as both producer and on-camera creative force.
With “WHAT YOU RUNNING FROM,” Bishu distills that evolution into a single moment—music shaped in real time, guided by instinct, and sharpened through a lens that blurs genre just as easily as it blurs the line between artist and community. It’s an intimate, restless, and unmistakably Bishu take on dance-driven pop, signaling a renewed stride as he steps back into NIGHTMODE’s orbit.
“‘I’m fired up to get this song out. My vocals as well! I can’t really think of a better place than Nightmode for it, pleasure to be back.”—Bishu
