![]() A Different World, Waynehead and In Living Color are other television programs of the era which exhibit influences from the new jack swing style. In other episodes, he sings " Teddy's Jam" and " Rump Shaker". During the first episode of the series, Will Smith dances to the Soul II Soul new jack swing single " Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)". NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air also boosted the spread of this culture, as the star of the show, Will Smith, was known initially for his hip-hop duo with DJ Jazzy Jeff. ![]() Reid, Babyface and Daryl Simmons), who was along with Riley nicknamed "The King of New Jack Swing". The 1989 film Ghostbusters II helped spread new jack swing with its theme song, " On Our Own" by Bobby Brown (written by L.A. Riley, a 19-year-old man from Harlem, quickly became an A-list producer and commanded big fees to add his sound to major artist projects. It sparked a revolution." Riley stated that before new jack swing, "Rappers and singers didn't want anything to do with one another", because "Singers were soft, rappers were street." Riley's new style blended "sweet melody and big beats." The sensibilities of Riley's fusion of the styles would forever change pop music/hip-hop music pairing and was further popularized with Bad Boy's dominance of the late '90s through much of the same techniques. However, in the late 1980s, "during the era of high-top fades, and parachute pants, producer Teddy Riley and label boss Andre Harrell successfully fused and marketed the two sounds in a sexy, exclamatory music that critics termed new jack swing. ![]() Music website VH1.com notes that, while "hip-hop and R&B are kissing cousins" in the 2000s, "the two genres were seldom mentioned in the same breath" in the early 1980s. Riley said, "I define the term as a new kid on the block who's swinging it." The defining feature of Riley's music was the introduction of swingbeats, "a rhythmic pattern using offbeat accented 16th note triplets." In an interview with Revolt TV in 2017, Andre Harrell called Riley the inventor of the sound, hailing him "the king of New Jack Swing, because he invented it." ![]() He led the band Guy in the late 1980s and Blackstreet in the 1990s. Riley is an American R&B and hip hop singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. The term "new jack swing" describes the sound produced and engineered by R&B/hip hop artist and producer Teddy Riley. Scott Fitzgerald's time to the crackhouses of Teddy Riley's time." "New Jack" was a slang term (meaning ~'Johnny-come-lately' ) used in a song by Grandmaster Caz of the Cold Crush Brothers, and "swing" was intended by Cooper to draw an "analogy between the music played at the speakeasies of F. The term "new jack swing" was coined in an OctoVillage Voice profile of Teddy Riley by Barry Michael Cooper. He asserts that "since Jackson's album was released in 1986 and was hugely successful, it is not unreasonable to assume that it had at least some impact on the new jack swing creations of Teddy Riley." Mantronix's early records in the mid-1980s also had new jack elements. The success of Control, according to Ripani, bridged the gap between R&B and rap music. The new jack swing sound is particularly evident in the second single, " Nasty". Ripani PhD, author of The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950–1999 (2006), observed that the album was one of the first successful records to influence the rise of new jack swing by creating a fusion of R&B, rap, funk, disco and synthesized percussion. After that, Jam & Lewis produced Janet Jackson's digital R&B album, Control (1986). Some music critics said Full Force's "Alice, I Want You Just for Me" (1985) was the first new jack swing song, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis called Full Force and said Alice was their favorite song, and their favorite group was Full Force. Riley as well as drummer Lenny White credit the start of new jack swing to English singer-songwriter and producer Junior Giscombe and his 1985 single "Oh Louise". Kyle West remembered 1985 as the year he listened to new jack swing with Teddy Riley. Janet Jackson's Control, released in 1986, was one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the 1980s.
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