Many hardcore and alternative rappers had taken shots at new jack swing rappers for "whitewashing" the core message of hip hop just to get radio airplay. Of course, with its popularity, backlash was inevitable. The genre even crossed over to Korea and Japan of all places, influencing a great deal of K-Pop and J-Pop artists, such as Park Mi Kyung, and Toshinobu Kubota, respectively. Not even Michael Jackson could turn a blind eye at its popularity, and enlisted Teddy Riley's services for Dangerous, and Jam & Lewis' later for HIStory: Past, Present And Future, Book I.
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Movies like New Jack City and House Party were influenced by the sound and style it had created, and Japanese video game composers such as Yuzo Koshiro, Masato Nakamura, Naofumi Hataya and Tomoko Sasaki were using new jack influences in their compositions. Sure!, Bobby Brown and Big Bub were given a more "streetwise" edge thanks to the genre's hard hitting drum beats, while rappers jumped on it to appeal to a wider audience (or, in the case of LL Cool J, be more effective at making rap ballads).īy the early 1990s, New jack swing had hit its ultimate peak. During its peak years, R&B and hip hop artists alike flocked to to the new jack sound, with varying degrees of success. The timeline of the new jack swing era's peak years is generally agreed to have coincided with the The Golden Age of Hip Hop (1987-1994), with the first true new jack album being Keith Sweat's Make It Last Forever, released in November 1987. But it was Control, their 1986 collaboration with Janet Jackson that created the musical style that would eventually be known as "new jack swing". Meanwhile, Jam & Lewis, after being sacked from The Time by Prince in 1983, took the "Minneapolis sound" made famous by their former boss and added smoother R&B stylings and hip hop influenced drums, using this style to create hits for the SOS Band, Alexander O'Neal and Cherelle. Many of Teddy Riley's earliest productions for New York based rappers such as Slick Rick and Kool Moe Dee were noted for their unique swinging beats and melodies, which were uncommon at the time in hip hop.