Topic: Music Videos

2 chapters across the catalog

52: Build Black Better
• 2:46:11 - 2:50:32

52: Build Black Better

Tom Burrell on the "Studs and Sluts" Marketing Theme

Advertising legend Tom Burrell discusses the historical "studs and sluts" theme used to control enslaved people, which he argues is still propagated in modern music videos and media. Mo Fax applies this theory to the "Democratic plantation," where specific archetypes are used to keep the voting bloc engaged and under control.

48: Shootist
• 2:24:36 - 2:28:59

48: Shootist

The "Studs and Sluts" Campaign in Popular Culture

Tom Burrell introduces the "Studs and Sluts" concept, arguing that popular culture promotes black men as brutes and black women as sexual objects. He claims this conditioning is carried out through music videos produced and acted in by black people themselves. Mo Fax agrees, stating that this "malignant intention" has been used to denigrate black women and promote intra-racial violence.