![]() ![]() New Jack Swing quickly expanded beyond music into television, film, and fashion. “For gangsters and their facsimiles,” Cooper wrote of Riley in 1987, “here’s the new jack talisman, warding off the evil of poverty, failure and longevity…This is about living now, money, and living large.”Įxplore the history of the New Jack Sound with the Wondery podcast, Jacked: Rise of the New Jack Sound. Sure and Heavy D., were all from uptown, and by extension the fashion and energy of from the streets was inseparable from the sound. ![]() ![]() The majority of the earliest artists, producers and figures who shaped New Jack Swing culture, including Riley, Harrell, Keith Sweat, Riley’s fellow Guy members Aaron and Damien Hall, Al B. It was aspirational the source from which Uptown Records founder Andre Harrell coined the term “ghetto fabulous,” and the inspiration for the label’s ethos. Uptown was a land of style, flash, shine…and parties. Teddy took the sound and added Harlem’s flavor to it: The energy of hustlers, gangsters, fly girls, and those hoping to either be – or be with – any of the above. ![]()
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