Equal parts music label and streetwear designer, L.A.-based operation Real Bad Man made inroads into hip-hop with their On High Alert mixtape series before taking their behind-the-boards role further with a string of collaborative LPs. Delivering nostalgic, clean boom-bap production, they found their first major spotlight with Boldy James collaboration Real Bad Boldy (2020), followed in 2022 by a second joint album, Killing Nothing.