Immensely popular from about 1989-1992, it’s a style of R&B that focuses on a very prominent swingbeat made with an electronic drum machine. Vocals are usually harmonized. New Jack Swing, New Jack, or Swingbeat is a fusion genre evolved in the late ’80s, when urban contemporary soul artists began incorporating hip-hop rhythms, samples, and production techniques into their sound in the urban contemporary sound of R&B. Some songs simply had hip-hop beats, others had rapped sections and sung choruses… read more…