There were even songs that were just called that. Remember when R. Kelly was considered an Aaron Hall clone? At the same time, and looking at it in hindsight, I do feel that Keith, Teddy Riley, and Jam & Lewis among others were injecting some life into the mainstream R&B of those years. Heâd come on that dancefloor and he would sweat, sweat, sweat. I have not seen shows [of] that type since. The post-"End of the Road" buzz helped make Boyz II Men's next album, II, an instant smash when it arrived in 1994, even though it didn't include "End of the Road. It just sounded terrible to me. Sure. You can definitely tell them Harlem cats. The actual music, the performers and everything that was going on at that time, it was all big and colorful. The smooth brothers, you know: not too rowdy. One of the greatest feelings [is] that every time I hear that album come up on the radio or something, you can definitely feel it. On the other side of the spectrum, R&B seemingly was stuck in a circular loop, churning out forgettable fare that failed to strike a chord with many outside of the genreâs existing adherents. He was young enough to feel the streets, but he was musical enough to understand the relationship of what R&B music needed. Once a producer becomes the artist, all of a sudden heâs losing his value as a producer. NJS, I think, was right on time in overhauling the genre by the late 80s. The first Guy album in its entirety was recorded live. copyright © 1998-2021 prince.org. Kelly'. Weâve got a thing here.â Like, you go to the city, and you hear your record on the radio, while youâre in the limo, coming from the airport. This sound fit the new jack swing template that Bobby Brown was using so effectively. It was all about Teddy and his musicianship. The music started to change. His work with it became too grandiose and OTT, and sort of triggered its end. Everything was kind of oversized and overdone in terms of that, and fun. One thing I would pick out as a negative in the trends that NJS brought with them, is that R&B 'belters' were being phased out of the scene. The MPC had a certain swing function that could change a 16 note pattern. Then around I think 1987, Public Enemy comes in and you get that second wave of hip-hop. Vibe!' There was still a semi-decent amount of new jack swing records being released in 1994, but not many in 1995. What started as a local Harlem sound would pervade the American consciousness for at least the next decade. But Puffy is kind of like this icon on a whole ânother level. In empty spaces and stuff.â It was me, Dana Dane, my friend Dougie and Mike in the car, and he was like, âI just need some rhymes for it.â I remember Dana was like, âI can write some rhymes for that.â And Dougie was a rapper, too, and he was like, âI can write some rhymes for that.â By the time we got to the club, I handed him the rhymes. The snare had to be loud and obnoxious and not in tune with the rest of the stuff. Letâs make another R&B group.â And then Teddy, at the same time, wanted to be in the front, so he put himself in every group that he made. Around 94-ish when "HipHop Soul" took over. I think it has aged better the non NJS R&B from that era. What took it over the top was Guy, of course. One night hanging out, going to a club, Mike [Bivins] said what do I think about him forming a rap group with him and Ricky [Bell] and Ronnie [DeVoe]. They didnât have no real place because they was doing most of the backing rap. The label helped create the New Jack Swing sound, blending hip-hop and R&B, launched the careers of Mary J. Blige and Sean Diddy Combs and … Thatâs the joint.â. “This podcast was very informative,” she said. You had H-Town. If you watch House Party, this clear Kwame lookalike [is in the film], to the point people think that Iâm in House Party. And no one else got Teddy Riley beats but Michael Jackson. You can actually sing over a breakbeat? It was between âRapâs New Generationâ and âGo See the Doctorâ by Kool Moe Dee. Teddy was a hybrid between R&B and hip-hop. What changed R&B from New Jack Swing to postmodern R&B, the way it is now, was Soul II Soul. Interview: Teddy Riley on His Virginia Years. It felt good. It was a success, peaking at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 , number three in the Netherlands and New Zealand and number ten in Belgium, becoming the group's most successful single. On that street level, the fashion and the dancing seemed like it all went together. And then they started borrowing from each other, you know? Thatâs crazy. Teddy would have a row of Akai MPC60âs on stage. Jodeci instead presented themselves with a 'bad boys' image, and used a very different musical style to match. Teddy and that whole scene, when I look back, I felt it was the last of the grassroots authentic scenes to come off of the street. I donât think it lost steam, because it didnât just take me to make that music. When that shitty "Crunk" came in and ruined music completely!!!!!!!!!! There were a lot of parts. "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries.". It is also the culminating expression of the New Jack Swing sound, contributing to late ’80s/early ’90s R&B what albums like Nevermind and Ten did for rock. I think everyone knew it wouldn't last. Then, it was more like a blade of grass breaking through the cement sidewalk. That one sound, that bass sound, is the sound that was used on Heavy Dâs record. These guys are coming out of the Teddy Riley school of producing. I think Michaelâs input, along with the genius of Teddy Riley, turned New Jack Swing into pop. I like the New Jack sound some good albums, Guy and Dangerous being the best of the genre. You had a bunch of groups that were coming out at the time. With the Puff Daddy remixes, half the time it was just the sample. While New Jack Swing had disappeared altogether by the mid-90s, its influence continues to resonate. Purple and turquoise forever. To be honest with you, [the end of New Jack Swing], itâd probably have to be in the mid-â90s when Teddy started working with Blackstreet. If you listen to a lot of the records that were out in the â80s, they were very, very musical. Hank Shocklee Teddy Riley is one of the most influential artists in R&B and pop. The ‘new jack’ part of the title was another way of saying ‘new kid on the block/scene’, while use of the word ‘swing’ equated Riley’s productions with the gangster era of 1920’s swing music, marrying the grit of what was occurring on Harlem’s streets with what was happening in … Keith Sweat (b. in 1961) is one of the trailblazers for the new jack swing phenomenon and his peak period fell on the late 1980s and early ‘90s with such hits as I want her and Make You Sweat. I always remember the pants with the spray painted tags on them. Those two records started that bounce. Between the years of 1986 and 1994, a movement called New Jack Swing took popular culture on an unforgettable ride and its undeniable influence still … And it first comes on, youâve got that smile of where you were when that record was out, what you were doing, who you were with, how you were feeling. Itâs a different reality, but a necessary reality. The summer of 1988 felt like the beginning of an era in R&B: New Jack Swing didn’t sound like the smooth soul or the digital funk of your aunties and uncles. And Teddy didnât do that because at the heart of it all, Teddy likes to make music. [Producer] Hiriam Hicks had came to me and said that, âHey man, I got these three guys from New Edition.â Everybody was going solo and these three guys didnât have anybody, really. They were lush. His recent work with Girls Generation was actually pretty solid and sounded very 'modern,' and not dated -- like you would expect from a producer who peaked 20+ years ago. OK â now you bring the snare down, you tune it to the rest of the track â but the same vibrations are still there. When a new producer come out and they do something hot, then people start flocking to it. By the time the Dangerous album faded, so did New Jack Swing. Enter New Jack Swing, which mixed rap, dance-pop and R&B with trace amounts of disco, soul and rock & roll. Well, the New Jack Swing sound is ... Itâs so much behind it, but I can tell you in a few words, or a lot of words. It is a great genre to dance to!!!! What started as a local Harlem sound would pervade the American consciousness for at least the next decade, with New Jack Swing introducing the world to artists like Al B. Itâs just that maybe it wasnât my time, âcause I always say the music business is made up of turns. We had to actually play catch-up musically, but we understood it before that. Teddy repopulated the black music scene just himself as a producer, then other people started to try to bite on the sound. Also, it's nice to see someone else who's familiar with Girls Generation. And it doesnât have an expression, it fits the occasion. And thatâs what I did. I just played El DeBarge's Gemini disc, an it sounds more dated than NJS disc from around that era like Guy, B.Brown, ect. Teddy Rileyâs stuff was sparse, minimal. Thereâs been a division between rap and R&B from the very beginning, from 1979 on. That was a 95 tune. It was a thing where we just wanted to take the music that we loved from the streets and hear our favorite R&B records mixed with it. Itâs like telling the joke twice. The New Jack Swing sound was happy. When he produced Guy, âGroove Me,â when them songs came on we just went bananas. Okay, this R&B group worked. And the only other record that got played at that time was my record âOwnlee Eue,â which came out in 1990. But itâs a collaboration of rap and singing together. What do you got clothes in there for?â He would go in the bathroom, change his clothes. New Jack Swing is the template for today. Tweet. So when Soul II Soul dropped, it was like, âWait-wait-wait. Today, rap is a ubiquitous part of any playlist, popping up in seemingly every subgenre of music that exists, but this has not always been the case. The one thing that Teddy did was he accentuated the drums. High energy, danceable R&B like pre-What's The 411? When itâs not your time, take a step back. Jeff Adamoff I think his manager, Gene Griffin, was putting him in situations to make money. Do other things to keep yourself relevant. You gotta understand, at that point radio did not want to play hip-hop between 6 AM and 6 PM. Itâs like, when itâs your time, you shine. He would run his shows very high tech. [You] started seeing groups like Color Me Badd. Here comes â89 going into â90. By that time, Teddy was up in the stratosphere. He had a four track or a 12 track that he could convert over. I think that, like you say, many different acts had a hand in "ending" the era (if not necessarily the influence of the sound). I had my hi-top fade, I had a Kid ân Play; it was just a fun time. Whatever you consider the mid-90's to be, that's when. But I did find out over time that what Puffy was doing, this ability to promote, heâs extremely powerful and needed by anybody who does music. When designer brands like Calvin Klein, and these types of brands start to emulate us in terms of color and style and silhouette, and doing oversized products, thatâs when we knew that we had struck a chord with people. Contemporary 90-s Influenced R&B Pop background track. The series examines the “rise and eventual fall” of the New Jack Swing movement. New Jack Swing was almost literally a one man phenomenon. We would reach the reels, let them go until we got one that was on time. 94 was its last year. And then somebody over at Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis Records, I felt like they borrowed a lot, you know? The drum programming and the beats were the thing that caught your ear first. - was obsolete and more replaced with updated hip hop like sounds(As you can hear on the track You Got it With Redman) and Wont Waste You) The Group also found that perfect balance of balancing sexual grooves with Grown and Sexy Love Ballads which showed the group’s … Or when Timbaland kind of reset the board. I feel like in â50s, â60s, and â70s their fashion accompanied their music. I only like a few NJS songs.When it began,I felt it was sorta like the end of "real" R&B.It was the merging of R&B music with hip-hop beats/elements and I wasn't too fond of that.What really ticked me off is,when many legendary R&B artists and bands jumped on that bandwagon,too. Then theyâll get crushed. Hence, LL Cool Jâs song, âAround the Way Girl.â. They have to be what I considered to be R&B rap. Ronnie and Mike, they canât be street rappers. What started as a musical direction quickly seeped into movies (House Party), television (In Living Color, Martin), fashion (Cross Colours) and practically all aspects of the zeitgeist. And that was the whole thing: It was fun. The two genres simply did not cross paths, the rap world largely considering itself too âhardâ to play in the âsofterâ R&B pool. Prince Charles Alexander In the mid-to late â80s, hip-hop was capitalizing on its first wave of success. A lot of pre-'88 chart R&B/soul I've heard sounds... kind of stale and formulaic to me. At that time, videos were what made the project a success. It went from having a good time partying to this hardcore West Coast hip-hop. And thatâs a good album, too. '94 sounds about right. all rights reserved. Drummer/producer who built Hillside Sound. Puffy likes to sell music. New Jack Swing, we knew it was picking up steam when we heard certain songs that Teddy had done floating around Harlem in cars. In the meantime Teddy Riley was working with Guy and then he started to put that sound on. I think Aaron [Hall] in Guy was the one that really set it off and made Teddyâs beats make sense. New Jack Swing started with The Classical Two and ended with Michael Jackson. I was on tour with Guy. Music composer for the â90s TV hit In Living Color. Everything had the rhythm. The genre also breathed new life into acts like Bobby Brown and Janet Jackson, while more established acts from Michael Jackson to Sheena Easton would splash in the pool on certain albums and tracks. It ends at âRemember the Timeâ to me. So thereâs a whole section of the world that only knows âRemember the Timeâ and âDangerous.â They have no idea who Guy is. Architect of the New Jack Swing sound. There was a period around 93-94 when the twilighting New Jack Swing and the dawning Hip Hop Soul kind of crossed paths and meshed with each other (SWV's "Right Here," Mary J. Blige's "Love No Limit" and "My Love", BLACKstreet's "Booty Call," Black Girl's "90's Girl") which then completely overtook it. That was way before samplers. I think the films like Juice, Above the Rim and others were influenced by how we dressed artists in their videos. 'Vibe! Drake is doing New Jack Swing. Harlem cats are always, like, low key. A lot of singers breathed a sigh of relief and was like, âOh, youâve given us a music that can relate to young people again, and we can sing.â, Kwame Just played every part and a lot of it is improvisation on the fly. While rap and R&B seem almost joined at the hip today, this was not always the case. To commemorate Mr. To be honest with you, [the end of New Jack Swing], it’d probably have to be in the mid-’90s when Teddy started working with Blackstreet. I think you can hear the New Jack swing sound influence Prince a little in the early 1990's on songs such as Don't say You Love me Martika's Kitchen, My Name is Prince and Lovesign. Heâs a musical guy. This is what makes the value of a producer so important. For me, the New Jack Swing apex moment was Johnny Kemp âJust Got Paid.â After that, everything became redundant. When he started to put that sound on, Full Force, who were my producers at the time, recognized it as well, and we did a song called âWord to the Wise.â Then they did a remix that was in swing mode called, âWord to the Wise (Funk Swing Mix).â, Bosko Kante It felt energetic and to me it gave a lot of respect to the dancers in hip-hop. Thatâs where Aaron really contributed to the sound more so than anything else, but then Teddy was able to take that and go to other artists and still have success. Once the spotlight goes on, the whole world tunes in. Everybody wants to get that new sound. The whole fusion of the harder hip-hop beats with R&B singing. Now it just seems to be corporate shooting down at us. The producerâs job is to see you in a light that you canât see for yourself. We knew it was something, we just didnât know when the world was going to connect. Beyonce is doing New Jack Swing. Sure, every once in a while you'd hear a Keith Washington or a Christopher Williams, and Vandross sustained his massive crossover popularity; but one thing I must hand to 80s R&B, is that the quality of the vocals was consistently stellar. Thatâs a hit. Once the dollars started rolling in, corporate America perked up to take their bite of the pie. I would agree with this. I think you're right. They still were separatists when it came to hip-hop. I got the AKAI S950 and put my vocals in there and moved them around. We spoke to Teddy Riley about his life and his music, growing up in Harlem, his legacy as the creator of New Jack Swing, and why returning to the Apollo Theater after 20 years is so significant. The first thing that I thought [about Bel Biv Devoe] was to make Michael and Ronnie rappers and let Ricky do the singing. There were bridges. That was a big question that they would always ask Carl [Jones, co-founder of Cross Colours] when he was actually working with the buyers and everything. The sound started changing. [It] was very weird watching a bunch of extras look and act just like me be in the movie. I couldnât be the producer and the artist at the same time. It was called “New Jack Swing,” a term coined by esteemed journalist, author … New Jack Swing was on the small screen, the big screen, radio, MTV⦠It was everywhere. Itâs just metamorphasized. He carried this knapsack and I was like, âWhatâs in the knapsack?â He was like, âMy clothes.â Iâm like, âYour clothes? New Jack Swing had a bit of an edge when it started out and when it was spearheaded by Keith Sweat and Bobby B, but afterwards, it was appropriated by some groups that had a really clean image. I think it was huge in terms of bringing hip-hop to a broader audience. Kelly' album, it was a different sound altogether. One of the things that I wanted to do was to figure out what Teddy Riley was doing with these drum patterns that everybody was calling New Jack Swing. Then, when samplers came on the scene, weâd spend nights just messing around trying to get new sounds. It had the feel and flavor of the streets. Why? Vibe! Unless we count This Is How We Do It as NJS. “New Jack Swing” was coined by Barry Michael Cooper (who wrote New Jack City, ... By the end of the movie he was swagged out. Once Michael [Jackson] stepped in the picture, Teddy stopped working with everybody. Then there was Puffy. Maybe they're a bit too standard K-Pop for the average ORGer, but I'll be damned if Taeyeon doesn't have a set of lungs on her, and Hyoyeon can move with the best of them out there right now. I was like, âWow, this sounds just like what Teddyâs been doing with the Guy stuff.â. They made more money. Before too long, dime-a-dozen NJS acts were being churned out of the record studios, but the beginning of NJS seems, imo, to have been very welcome. That being said, I agree that NOW seems like a perfect time for Teddy Riley to reemerge and reinvent NJS. But in the â90s, there was this whole spirit of creativity. I think that maybe Teddy really just wanted to be on the artistic side, but I think the progression that Teddy should have had was a label that was comparable to Def Jam. I would say New Jack Swing is heavy R&B, heavy rhythm and blues, all stuck in one bag. I think thatâs really what it comes down to. Rihanna is doing New Jack Swing. With Danceable Rhythms, top … Back in the â90s, you didnât see girls wearing spandex dresses. I just want to keep it real: When he started to produce different groups and then Wreckx-n-Effect, they started to break up and then Guy started to break up. Everything now, or pretty much since that time, has been pretty contrived. New jack swing is a hybrid style popular from the late-1980s into the mid-1990s, which fuses … There was a period around 93-94 when the twilighting New Jack Swing and the dawning Hip Hop Soul kind of crossed paths and meshed with each other (SWV's "Right Here," Mary J. Blige's "Love No Limit" and "My Love", BLACKstreet's "Booty Call," Black Girl's "90's Girl") which then completely overtook it. Teddy â that sound is timeless. You know, New Jack Swing was inspiring to everyone. In honor of the 25th anniversary of A Tribe Called Quest's 1991 landmark 'The Low End Theory,' read 10 facts you likely didn't know about the album. I remember there was a song on that Guy album called âI Like.â We had the background vocals and sampled them into an Emulator 2. The days when he hung with Public Announcement? And it was just amazing to me that these shows were being run in sequence with the same drum machines that he was making the records with and then the band playing along with it. Iâve witnessed how even country folks and fans have felt about âNo Diggity.â Iâve seen a country line dance to âNo Diggity.â. Even his hip-hop beats had a little New Jack Swing in it. Thereâs always something going on in the streets thatâs not going on in the clouds. Member of Wreckx-N-Effect, brother of Teddy Riley. The style was cool though. Markell Riley Teddy Riley was a producer. When he did âRemember the Timeâ with Michael Jackson, you just knew thatâs it. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/keith-sweat-4918.php In the late 1980s he created new jack swing, a fusion genre that filtered from New … Thatâs crazy. You know, it was cool for them, too. That bass was a specific thing. If Iâm producing a record and they say, âHey, I want a Teddy Riley style of record,â the first thing I would say is, âGo hire Teddy Riley.â. "Produced by the likes of Babyface and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, rather than Bivins (who wanted to concentrate on developing new artists), II debuted at number one on its way to sales of over 12 million copies. For as strong a run as NJS had, it was not immune to changes. An around-the-way girl was way hotter than a girl in a spandex dress. When I started touring and hearing my record and all of my records in other cities. If you listen to L.A. and Babyface productions before they heard Teddy Rileyâs New Jack Swing record, you listen to Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewisâs productions before, it was a different flavor. When we first came out and people actually placed the orders for the product, they really didnât know where to put it in the store. Literally, if you heard 15 songs [on the radio], almost all those 15 songs were produced by Teddy. They said, âWell, who do we hang it next to?â And what Carl would tell them is that you donât hang it next to anyone, you make us our own department. 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