The song was produced by Jamil Kazmi, written by Takahiro Moriuchi, Ed Sheeran and Masato Hayakawa of Coldrain, and was released on 16 April 2021 as the lead single from the band's tenth studio album Luxury Disease.

[1][2][3] The song serves as the main theme for the live action film based on a manga series, Rurouni Kenshin: The Final.

[1] In an interview with J Rock News, Moriuchi would express how the song connects to being the main theme for the Japanese blockbuster Rurouni Kenshin: The Final, in which he would say that "Renegades" relates more to the protagonist than the overarching plot of the film.

"[13]The music video for "Renegades" was released alongside the single on 16 April 2021, and was directed by Toshi Atsunori.

The two major differences in the Japanese version of the music video is that there are Japanese subtitles and in the second pre-chorus lyrics "For all the lies and the burden that they put on us / All of the times that they told us to just because" were replaced with "Surikomare nuri kasanerareta / Uso wa bokura wo nomikonda".

[16] By the end of its first week, both videos (Japanese and International) would tally up to a combined total of 7.5 million views.