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 October 18, 1987, Village Voice profile of Teddy Riley by Barry Michael Cooper. Club Nouveau was a later incarnation of the San Francisco Bay Area group Timex Social Club. The backing track uses a sequenced swing beat, characteristic of the digital go-go style. The song was included on the group's debut album Life, Love & Pain, which was released in 1986. The song won a Grammy award later that year. Northern California's Club Nouveau had a Billboard number one single with their Go-go cover of Bill Withers's song " Lean on Me" in 1987. Go-go bands (Chuck Brown, Trouble Funk, EU) were roots of new jack swing. 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).
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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. 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. Key producers included Teddy Riley, Timmy Gatling, Alton "Wokie" Stewart, DJ Eddie F, DeVante Swing, Kyle West, Bernard Belle, William "Zan" Aquart, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Two examples would be "Groove Me" by Guy which samples " Funky President (People It's Bad)", " My Thang", and " The Champ" as well as its own swing drums, and "Right or Wrong" by Mind which fuses sharp drum reverb effects and a hidden looped sample of the Funky Drummer. Merriam-Webster's online dictionary defines new jack swing as "pop music usually performed by black musicians that combines elements of jazz, funk, rap, and rhythm and blues." New jack swing took up the trend of using sampled beats and tunes, and created beats using electronic drum machines such as the then-new SP-1200 sampler and the Roland TR-808 to lay an "insistent beat under light melody lines and clearly enunciated vocals." The Roland TR-808 was sampled to create distinctive, syncopated, swung rhythms, with its snare sound being especially prominent. Its influence, along with hip hop, seeped into pop culture. Spearheaded by producers Teddy Riley and Bernard Belle, new jack swing was most popular from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. 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 sound of R&B.