• New jack swing, new jack, or swingbeat is a fusion genre of the rhythms and production techniques of hip hop and dance-pop, and the urban contemporary...
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  • This list contains singers and groups who performed in the new jack swing (or swingbeat) style, a hybrid style popular from the mid-1980s into the early...
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  • New Jack Swing is a song by Wreckx-N-Effect (then called Wrecks-N-Effect) from their 1989 debut album Wrecks-N-Effect, The song hit number one on the Billboard...
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  • August 14, 2012. Cooper suggested Teddy Riley name his new genre new jack swing, after the movie. The New Orleans-based hip hop record label Cash Money Records...
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    songwriter credited with the creation of the R&B and hip hop fusion genre new jack swing. He is the founder and lead singer of the musical group Blackstreet...
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  • hip-hop artists of the time. The music is heavily influenced by the New Jack Swing genre of R&B. Prominent artists and producers of this sound contributed...
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    JLS (an initialism of Jack the Lad Swing) are an English boy band consisting of members Aston Merrygold, Oritsé Williams, Marvin Humes, and JB Gill, originally...
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    came New Jack Swing (Honest Entertainment), with big-band treatments of old standards and assorted pop/rock songs. 1999 saw the release of Jack Jones...
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  • direction, medium swing. Swing is commonly used in swing jazz, ragtime, blues, jazz, western swing, new jack swing, big band jazz, swing revival, funk, funk...
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  • production. The subgenre had evolved from a previous R&B subgenre, new jack swing, which had incorporated hip-hop influences into R&B music. By contrast...
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  • Wreckx-n-Effect (category New jack swing music groups)
    Wrecks-n-Effect) is an American new jack swing group from Harlem, New York City most known for their No. 1 Rap songs, "New Jack Swing" & their multi-platinum...
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  • influences. This combination of R&B style and hip hop rhythms was termed "new jack swing" and was applied to artists such as Keith Sweat, Bobby Brown, Johnny...
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  • Dangerous (Michael Jackson album) (category Album chart usages for New Zealand)
    Monaco, Slash and Wreckx-n-Effect. The album incorporates R&B, pop and new jack swing, a growing genre at the time. Elements of industrial, funk, hip hop...
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    Jodeci (category New jack swing music groups)
    traditional R&B. Jodeci would incorporate hip hop soul, gospel and new jack swing into their music, which led to the group featured prominently with hip...
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  • R&B and soul fusion genres Alternative R&B Contemporary R&B Neo soul New jack swing Techno Acid techno Ambient techno Birmingham sound Bleep techno Detroit...
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  • composed the gypsy swing standard "Minor Swing". In the late 1980s to early 1990s, new urban-styled swing-beat emerged called new jack swing (New York go-go)...
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    DeGrate Jr. (born September 29, 1969), better known by his stage name DeVanté Swing, is an American record producer, singer, songwriter and rapper. He is best...
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  • Guy (band) (category New jack swing music groups)
    their hit single "Dancin'". Guy held the credit as the pioneer of the new jack swing genre with the early interactions of their work, which was developed...
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  • So You Like What You See (category New jack swing songs)
    "So You Like What You See" is new jack swing song by Samuelle from his 1990 album Living in Black Paradise. The hit song spent two weeks at number-one...
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    Michael Bivins (category New Edition members)
    DeVoe. The group is credited with being one of the pioneers of the new jack swing sound. Their debut album, Poison, peaked at number five on the Billboard...
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    Janet Jackson (category New jack swing musicians)
    music with hip-hop and R&B undertones influenced the development of the new jack swing genre by bridging the gap between the latter two styles. The accompanying...
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  • The Good Girls (group) (category New jack swing music groups)
    debut album All for Your Love, influenced heavily by Teddy Riley's new jack swing movement, was released in 1989, producing the hit single "Your Sweetness"...
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  • Such include contemporary R&B, house, trance, techno, electropop, new jack swing, funk and pop rock. Dance-pop is a popular mainstream style of music...
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    R. Kelly (category New jack swing musicians)
    as R. Kelly and Public Announcement). The album, released during the new jack swing period of the early 1990s, yielded the R&B hits "She's Got That Vibe"...
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  • 3rd Avenue (American band) (category New jack swing musicians)
    parent album underperformed as it did not chart at a time in which the new jack swing genre was at its creative peak, but the singles fared better and received...
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  • 2011). "Essentials: R&B Rubs Hip-Hop the Right Way and the New Jack Swing Era Is Born". Spin. New York: 84. Retrieved March 15, 2013. Henderson, Alex. "allmusic...
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  • indie, alternative, country, rap, ska, funk, pop, rock, electronic and new jack swing fusions. Criteria for list inclusion is citation or article basis infobox...
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    Mary J. Blige (category New jack swing musicians)
    never seen a woman do new jack swing but loves it just the same". According to Dave McAleer, Blige became the most successful new female R&B artist of...
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    co-writer. George ceased rapping when New Beginning was released in 1996, shortly after the end of the new jack swing era, and began to sing leads (It's...
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    Michael Jackson (category New jack swing musicians)
    soul, rhythm and blues, funk, rock, disco, post-disco, dance-pop and new jack swing. Steve Huey of AllMusic wrote that Thriller refined the strengths of...
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