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What on earth is That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup?

That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup, launched by the rapper Desto Dubb, is an independent streetwear label run out of Los Angeles. The label shortens to ALOCS, a contraction carried by cough syrup streetwear merch the press material and present in product names such as the A.L.O.C.S. T-Shirt. What the label sells reads ordinary on paper, spanning tees, hoodies, sweatpants, shorts, denim and accessories, yet unusual in practice, since the brand’s own name is the main graphic on most of it. The legal entity is listed as THATS A AWFUL LOT OF… LLC, with no apostrophe and a trailing ellipsis. Searchers get there through a dozen spellings, including alocs clothing, cough syrup clothing and the shorthand awful lot of cough syrup. Get one detail straight first: the brand writes “A Awful Lot”, not “An Awful Lot”, and that ungrammatical article is no accident. The bulk of searchers type thats a awful lot of cough syrup without the apostrophe; only the version with “A” corresponds to the registered mark.

Who is behind it?

Desto Dubb, who grew up in Watts in South Los Angeles and doubles as a rapper and entrepreneur, is the founder and chief executive. What you are looking at is not a design studio with a rapper attached as a face, but a rapper’s business, steered from the same network as his records. He was making records years before he sold a shirt, which tells you a great deal about how the company operates. He has maintained that other labels are built around an aesthetic, and that his own is wrapped around himself instead. The result comes out in graphics that read like song titles and in drops timed to events rather than fashion seasons.

Joshua Kashif Taylor is the registrant on the United States trademark for the phrase, and posts on the brand’s own blog carry a matching byline. The internet implies more about his legal name than the record carries, and that record is scant. Unsourced commercial sites circulate other names, and those are best left alone, because for every practical purpose he is Desto Dubb.

How did the name come about?

A viral clip put the phrase in front of the public, an officer’s line became the brand name, and Desto Dubb made that line into a business. Nearly every write-up retells the anecdote, and it deserves care, because material online claims the clip was staged and no primary transcript settles it. Documentation extends to the commercial outcome rather than the encounter, and the trademark record lists first use of the mark in November 2018.

The phrase itself refers to promethazine-codeine cough syrup, the prescription medicine known in rap slang as lean, and the company does not pretend otherwise. Nor does it treat that as a selling point: its own site carries a standing banner reading “! PLEASE DO NOT SIP DRANK AND SHOOT FIREARMS !”. Medical and horror imagery runs across the product names, from Big Pharma and Promethazine Tour to Paralysis and Drankenstein, and it works as a graphic vocabulary rather than an instruction. The clothing is clothing, and the rest of this piece is about garments and prices.

When did the label start?

The year to use is 2018. First use of the mark is recorded in the trademark filing as November 2018, and an AllHipHop profile published in November 2023 describes the label marking its fifth anniversary. Some coverage dates the earliest selling during the pandemic, which conflicts with both markers, and the filing and the anniversary piece are the stronger pair. Most young streetwear brands cannot muster two independent pointers to one year.

The beginning was literally a van. The brand’s own about page recounts Desto Dubb selling clothes out of a van in a parking lot in downtown Los Angeles, which is the origin it tells on itself rather than one assembled by a reporter. The method is still captured by that detail: small batches, direct contact with buyers, and drops announced through social accounts instead of wholesale calendars. By 2026 there is an online store and physical retail, and even so the rhythm still looks closer to a van than a department store, with fresh batches landing every week or two.

What does it actually make?

Heavyweight cut-and-sew basics carrying jumbo screen prints front and back make up the core. Tee names include King Of The Kill, Drankenstein, Juicebusters and Big Pharma, and the Classic Cough Syrup T-Shirt is published at 6.5 oz organic cotton. The heavy end is hoodies: the Classic Cough Syrup Hoodie is listed at 16 oz organic cotton and hand-dyed in Los Angeles, and sweatpants use a 14 oz cotton and recycled polyester fleece. Denim is held thin, and the Double Cup Cargo Shorts, a 14 oz garment-dyed cargo short with double-layer back pockets, is the only piece in that collection in 2026.

Better than any graphic, two details identify the brand, namely the signature yellow woven label, named again and again in its own product copy, and the published fabric weight. Apparel spans XS to 3XL, denim and workwear sell by waist from 28 to 44, and neither a global size chart nor washing instructions is published. Fit guidance shifts by garment and is not uniform: the classic pieces are called true to size, while the lightweight jersey tees say plainly that they run small.

What are the prices?

The core prices are easy to hold in your head because they barely move. A tee is about $150 at the brand’s own store as of September 2026, a hoodie about $200 and sweatpants about $200. Near $150 buys denim shorts, puffer jackets run between roughly $200 and $250, belts and Dickies trousers around $250, and the Dickies jacket tops the range near $350. The other end carries a bandana at about $25, socks and boxers in the $50 to $70 band, and women’s pieces roughly $48 to $160.

Because streetwear prices and stock change constantly, take that ladder as a shape rather than a quote. The band places cough syrup clothing at the upper end of independent streetwear, well above mall-tier graphic brands and far below European luxury houses. The band also functions as an authenticity signal, since a $45 tee wearing this logo did not come from the company selling them at $150.

Where is it produced, and where can you buy it?

Los Angeles, a fact the brand places on the garments themselves. Across the product copy “Made in Los Angeles” appears again and again, and individual pieces are described as hand-dyed and printed or screen-printed in the city rather than finished abroad. A Black-owned business is how the same copy describes the company. The numbers follow at these price levels once you account for local small-batch production, since a 16 oz cotton hoodie made here was never going to be a $60 garment.

Alongside a small number of physical locations the company runs its own online store. The flagship is at 7669 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, and it also lists 312 West 5th Street in Los Angeles and 5410 Almeda Road in Houston. No store-locator page and no published opening hours exist, which makes those addresses worth confirming before travelling. Anything else claiming to be an outlet is best judged on the garment: the yellow woven label, the published fabric weight, the real price level, and whether the product name appears in the brand’s own catalogue.

The brand fact file

Below, the table gathers the details that survive checking and leaves out the ones that do not. Dates come from the trademark record and dated press coverage rather than brand mythology. Prices were read from the brand’s own store in September 2026 and are hedged, because they move. The addresses are the ones the company lists on its own social profiles, with no published opening dates. For a contested claim such as the origin clip, the row records what is documented. Treat it as a starting point for your own checks rather than a final word.