Jalali Set
Position in the network
Open the graph →No documented link to any other act yet. That is a gap in the concert record rather than a statement about this act’s audience — 35 of 63 catalogued acts have no documented event.
Members
- MC Mugz — Rapper (joined 2014; formerly of Deshi MCs) (2014–present)
- Shafayat — Rapper (joined 2014; formerly of RHG / Green Coast) (2014–present)
- Double$ — Member (unspecified–present)
- Shadhu — Member (previously active in the underground scene) (unspecified–present)
Discography
- Sura Target · 2015 · singleSura Target
- Level 13 · 2016 · studio
- Bhober Pagol · 2022 · singleBhober Pagol
Documented influences
Explore influences →- American hip-hop / trap productionmedium
Jalali Set's sound is described as a fusion of hip-hop, trap and electronic music, reflecting direct absorption of contemporary American trap production techniques into the group's Level 13 (2016) material.
Source: Various music-scene profiles; halftimeonline.net Bangladesh hip-hop overview
Local adaptation
Formed when MC Mugz (from the pioneering Deshi MCs crew) and Shafayat (from RHG/Green Coast) joined forces in 2014, Jalali Set built its identity on raw Dhaka street slang and socially conscious lyrics addressing politics, society and individual hardship; the 2022 single 'Bhober Pagol' explicitly fused hip-hop/trap with traditional Bangladeshi folk instrumentation (dotara, ektara), directly paralleling the folk-fusion adaptation strategies seen in Arnob's and Habib Wahid's work but applied within a hip-hop framework.
Sound evolution
Formative period (2014): coalesced from members of established underground crews (Deshi MCs, RHG/Green Coast) plus Shadhu, an established underground-scene figure. Breakthrough period (2015–2016): viral single 'Sura Target' (2015) preceded debut album Level 13 (2016), recognized for its raw local sound and Dhaka slang. Later period (2022): 'Bhober Pagol' extended the group's palette into folk-hip-hop fusion using traditional instruments, broadening the group's sonic and thematic range beyond straight trap/hip-hop.
Based on documented description and discographic sequence. No audio-feature analysis was possible in this project, so nothing here rests on measured signal.
Concert culture
Emerged from Dhaka's underground hip-hop crew scene (Deshi MCs, RHG/Green Coast lineage) rather than a mainstream media pipeline, consistent with the DIY, crew-based development pattern common to early 2010s Bangladeshi hip-hop before the genre's later mainstream/viral breakthroughs.
Listener community
A key node in the Bangladeshi hip-hop ecosystem alongside Stoic Bliss, Muza and Hannan, notable for bridging underground/socially-conscious hip-hop audiences with folk-music listener communities via tracks like 'Bhober Pagol.'
Inferred from co-billing and from what artists and journalists said — this project has no audience-side data.
Documented events
All concerts →- Coke Studio Bangla Season 1 — "Bhober Pagol"2022-05-03 · Dhaka · corporate branded platform
Sources
- Jalali Set biography — Last.fm · profile
- Bangladeshi hip-hop — Wikipedia · encyclopedia
Record last updated 2026-08-06 · source record