Baadasss TV is a British television series, devoted to youth-oriented fashion and culture, which aired on Channel 4 in 1994.
[1] The show was made by the production company Rapido TV, also responsible for Eurotrash and Passengers.
[3] As well as an appearance of Lee 'Scratch' Perry, the show featured "soft-pornography, rapping dwarves, paintings made from elephant droppings and fitness fanatics Juicy Julia and the Raggaerobics crew".
Some commentators criticised Baadasss TV as a "stereotyped freak show".
[3] Trevor Phillips, then a LWT producer, attacked the programme as "just another nigger minstrel show",[4] reinforcing black stereotypes of 'gangsters, pimps, whores and freaks'.