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Badman (EP)

Badman
Front cover art of the Badman EP
Cover art of the EP
EP by B.A.P
Released August 6, 2013 (2013-08-06)
Recorded 2013
Genre K-pop, hip hop
Length 20:08
Language Korean
Label TS Entertainment
B.A.P chronology
One Shot
(2013)
Badman
(2013)
First Sensibility
(2014)
Singles from Badman (EP)
  1. ""Coffee Shop""
    Released: June 28, 2013
  2. ""Hurricane""
    Released: July 17, 2013
  3. ""Badman""
    Released: August 6, 2013

Badman is the third EP by the South Korean hip hop-R&B boy group B.A.P. It was released both online and offline on August 6, 2013 under the record label of TS Entertainment and distributing label of LOEN Entertainment. It charted number 1 on the Billboard World album Charts.

Along with revelation of the album name and its track listing on July 28, 2013, TS Entertainment hinted that the Badman EP would "contain music that only B.A.P can do... [it] is supposed to have genres they never tried before in the album." The agency had also stated before that there were going to be three promotional singles from the upcoming third EP.

"Coffee Shop", the EP's lead single, was written and composed by the music producer duo of Kang Ji-won and Kim Ki-bum, who have previously worked on successful hits with other artists from record label of TS Entertainment, including Secret , as well as B.A.P themselves for "Warrior", "Power", and "One Shot". The group also collaborated with the pianist Song Young-joo for the instrumental part of the track. B.A.P travelled to several sites in the United States to shoot scenes for music video of the song, including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Santa Monica, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and New York City.

"Hurricane", the next single, was composed and written by the music producers, Marco and Jun Da-woon, who had worked with TS Entertainment in the past on various projects. They had collaborated with Secret on "Calling U" from their third min-album Poison (Secret EP) and "Only U" from their fourth mini-album Letter from Secret. The duo had also produced songs for B.A.P, such as "Punch" from their second mini-album One Shot as well as single "No Mercy". Marco and Jun Da-woon also penned the lyrics of the song while B.A.P's rapper and leader Bang Yong Guk contributed to the rap part of the song. B.A.P had travelled to United States to shoot the scenes for music video of the song, visiting several different places in Las Vegas.


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