“Bad Man (Smooth Criminal)” is a remix of pop star Michael Jackson’s 1988 track “Smooth Criminal,”. The demo version of Polo G’s “Bad Man (Smooth Criminal)” serves as the original version with minor lyric changes in both the first and second verse, as well as an altered beat. While Polo G officially previewed the demo version on stage at Rolling Loud NYC 2021, it leaked in its entirety to file-sharing websites on October 4th of 2021.