He is also dating his young attractive receptionist, Brenda (Tanya Boyd), whose former boss and lover, a white mobster, has become jealous of Jonathan.

[2] The mobster has begun sending his goons to intimidate Jonathan and his employees by trashing the hair salon.

[4] After screening The Bad Bunch for MGM in the hopes that the studio would distribute the film, Clark was told by the studio's executives that they were not willing to release the film because the depiction of white cops as beating and harassing black men and using racist language would offend police officers.

[5] Clark cowrote Black Shampoo with screenwriter Alvin Fast, as a mix of comedy, violence and sex.

[2] Clark had recently founded his own distribution company to release films, but decided to screen Black Shampoo for Dimension Pictures, who made Clark a profitable offer, and the studio would end up distributing Black Shampoo worldwide.

[6] In the 1996 book The Psychotronic Video Guide To Film, Michael Weldon described Black Shampoo as "Blaxploitation at its worst".

"[5] Dominic Griffin, reviewing the film for Spectrum Culture in 2017, described the movie as being "dull" until it's "shockingly brutal" final 10 minutes, and opined that "there's nowhere near enough gun violence to fit the blaxploitation quota.